The Pickleball Cabin

           The tournament...    The day of the tournament arrives I can't get access to the hall until an hour before people are due to start playing! Cricketers are still at their practice, whacking the ball around but there is a safe space to start putting the nets together, so I get to work. Cricketers clear off with around 45 minutes to go, time to mark up the NVZ... which takes longer than it should, but thanks to help from some of the incoming players gets done in time.   Get all players to register via a google form (who knew only one person could enter data at once - even on multiple devices?). Accepting terms and conditions, etc...  Then on with play - round robin, everybody plays with as many others as possible - 9 rounds over 4 courts with 23 people playing (one late drop out)... Players from 20s to 80s whacking the ball in all directions.  After 9 rounds, using the pickleheads app to create and record matchups, the top 3...

Some of you will know that I took the plunge into Electric Cars a couple of years back, leasing a black Polestar 2. Shadowfax     I've taken this to and from the continent, and the only time I've had problems charging it was in Oxford finding a working fast charger.   It is a great car... But the other week it died (RIP Shadowfax), or rather the 12 v battery, that runs the onboard systems, as well as the TPAM battery both died. These don't get charged by the charging infrastructure, but are charged when driving - I'm not sure how they got discharged as I'd driven to and from Oxford the previous day, and had 39% charge on the drive battery. The next day I tried to unlock it but.... dead as a doornail, it was emulating a Norwegien Blue - pushing up the daisies, it was an ex-polestar.... Recovery person came out and  'jump started' it but told me it was likely to happen again within a week, and I should get it to the garage, via the Polestar recorery, ASAP. The...