Simple pleasures and habits of many of the people I know include doing the Wordle, and more recently the Connections game, fiercely tackling these New York Times’ games and then sharing our scores, especially if we get it right in record speed.

Naturally many of us have taken to the new Padel courts in the Knysna and Plett area and we belong to an ‘old fart’ (anything near and over 60) tennis table and badminton group. All these activities are conducted in a spirit of fun, but not without stiff competition...