2014

[El Gordo]

The reference to "cawfee" immediately brought to mind SP's anecdote about the US golf trip. No, I can't repeat it as I wasn't there, but the way he told it had us in stitches one drunken evening in Almeria (is there any other sort?). Sweder was on the golf trip, but it won't sound so funny in print.

As for Dan's troubles and podiatrists etc, I remember talking to a runner after the Chicago Marathon who mentioned she'd been to 5 different podiatrists in a month to try to solve a tendon issue. "Why so many", I naively asked. "The first 4 told me to give up running," she said, without the slightest hint that this might have been a well-rehearsed one-liner.

But she'd got round the marathon in a decent time, so I guess her instincts (and those of the 5th podiatrist) were correct.