Charity Losers
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After mid-afternoon trip to DFS to order a nice new sofa — our old one
never really recovered from Abbi’s sofa dancing, and was tatty anyway —
we had a quick dinner, then went to the New Inn with Gavin for a pub quiz.
To our astonishment, it was £5 each! It turned out that this was a special
fundraiser for an encephalitis support charity. There was food laid
on too. Also, it left us slightly out of pocket, which moderated the drinking.
I had driven, since I needed a clear head in the morning, so I didn’t benefit
from that last bit.
We did moderately well in most rounds, getting 9/10 in our joker round, and
8 or 9 in most of the other rounds, except for a disastrous General Knowledge
round, where we got 5/10.
The winners got full marks. Suspiciously, they were stood right next to
the quizmaster. Hmmm.
We didn’t win anything on the raffle either. Lucky there’s the warm glow
of charidee to tide us by.