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This is how the world ends, Not with a bang but a wicket…. (hold back bad-pun cringe)
Apologies to all the readers my stats are saying I’ve picked up in the last few weeks for not having anything new, work and other commitments have been draining my blogging time. Also I was showing solidarity with the writers by not writing. That’s totally true and not something I just made up.
On this page of impromptu games I found this disturbing gem:
I work in a biohazard lab and as such rules inside can be quite strict. For example, we are not allowed to carry anything at all in case we drop it, instead we move everything on trolleys. We have an airlock to get in and we shower out every time we leave.
One game we play is microbiological safety cabinet cricket. It basically consists of a ball of surgical gloves (we don’t have much paper in the lab) thrown across the room and then fired back by the batsman using normally long thin metal tin. We give a certain number of runs depending on whether it hits or even goes in different cabinets.
However this does backfire occasionally. Last month we were playing cricket in the lab and my manager struck our ball of gloves perfectly. It sailed through the air and straight into the anthrax cabinet, knocking over a tube of blood in which we had just diagosed positive anthrax (it’s OK, it didn’t come from inside the UK). We had to evacuate the building for 3 hours, and then go in with full breathing equipment to fumigate which takes a little under a week. Meant we did no more work for a while though but the top management have taken to frowning on our little game of cricket.
…If you’re wonder how Foot & Mouth got out of that lab, I suspect this could explain a lot. This is exactly why we’re all going to die of smallpox before the asteroid gets us.
