It`s happened again. Last time the local radio station picked me as the winner of a free wine tasting for 15 people. The pimply youth at the radio station had to give the answer to the skill testing question when it became obvious to him that his day had ground to a halt watching me chew his pencil.

This time the prize is not in Niagara but here in town, tickets to the baseball which is just starting up again. It clashes with work for me and nobody else in the house wants to go, however next door are keen, so here we go again with the calculus...........