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On a serious point (sorry if that's inappropriate!), I was concerned about basketball too.

I've golfed this week, but the friend I play with and I are rarely within shouting distance of each other!

Tyke

You're quite right, I do enjoy many sports...

Wrestling - with Inquisitor and Enigmatic Variations every weekend

Fencing - my family don't like taking part, my ripostes are deadly

Diving - into the papers first thing every morning

Marathons - AKA 'tackling the Listener'.


Grunger
The choice of legitimate activities puzzled me too. I still don't understand the reasoning behind these choices, but I expect many Cabinet members feel the same.

chrisE

Yes they could allow 4 golfers to play as they dont need to be near each other as you say. They are playing 9 holes here as there is a big demand.

malone

You are very versatile but I cant see you wrestling anyone 2 metres away.

Grunger

My mental wrestling definitely offers no risks - and my family know the need for maintaining an extremely safe distance if I'm dealing with a tough puzzle!

The BBC website is reporting that a "loss of smell" is now a syptom of coronavirus.



It reminds me of the story of the man who kept a pig in his bedroom. His friend asked him
"What about the smell?"










"He was a pig in a million - he didn't seem to mind"

chrisE

That's a good one. It reminds me of the old one about a man who bought a dog with no nose. His friend asked "How does he smell?"

"B***** awful"

malone

Glad you enforce strict distancing indoors as well as outside.

Here's a nice crossword - orientated joke.

( This might be well-known, but I'll chuck it in just in case it's not )

Sit with a newspaper folded to the crossword bit in front of a fellow enthusiast and stare into the middle distance with a frown. Sooner or later he / she will ask what you're puzzling over. As though reading from the paper, you quote : " Overburdened postman " and carry on frowning. Nine times out of ten the other person will ask how many letters, enabling you to deliver the punchline : " Hundreds "

Thanks for the jokes, folks. MalcolmXword's was my favourite, the others were … slightly on the old side.

Perhaps you missed my pedants' point - you lose your sense of smell, not necessarily your smell!

........and sometimes we can be thankful for the two metre distance rule!