Unexpected appearance by Joe Hart

Flicking through some old games that had been donated in a charity shop, I saw several copies of FIFA football from different years. 

I didn't know - or had forgotten - that 12 years ago Joe Hart had been a FIFA cover star. 

Alongside Lionel Messi, no less.

It wasn't enough to get me to buy the game, especially as it was for a console I don't have in the crate of obsolete consoles. (Although if it had been super-cheap I might have got it just for the cover.)

“You’ve got hippos”

Cathy’s bought Zoo Puzzle for the PS2, where basically you have to match up animals into lines of three or more to make them disappear. Think Tetris with fauna and you’ll be there. It's also blummin' addictive.





Playing it in company inevitably results in people trying to help by telling you which animals you can line up next. Hence: "You’ve got hippos!" which sounds like a particularly awkward kind of ailment.

"Sorry, I can’t come in to work today. I’ve got a bad case of the hippos."