Sports Day

The local primary school held its sports day today on the field opposite our house which put me in mind of sports days seventy years ago when I was at the Mombasa European Primary School. I never seemed to be able to excel on such occasions, this picture bearing witness - this was the obstacle race in which one of the challenges one had to overcome was take a bite out of a bun. I simply could not manage it.

If I was discomfited so, I am sure, was my father who, on the sports day shown here, had been persuaded to assist. It was the sort of event he would have disliked intensely, the only positive side being that he probably escaped as soon as he decently could and went to the Club for a beer or two.