[jambutty]

All I can say is that I spent most of my school years with scabby knees and elbows from playing sports and the general rough and tumble of growing up. I can still remember the agonising sting from iodine or TCP but it didn’t stop me playing football etc.

I rarely came first or even second in any of the sports day or swimming gala events and it didn’t harm my development. In fact it was the reverse. I learned to try harder if I wanted to win.

As one teacher put it, “If it wasn’t for the rest, there wouldn’t be a first.”

In a nutshell!

BAH! HUMBUG!