Who was Murphy – the bloke (presumably Irish, though I don’t know why) after whom the stupid law was named? What kind of a gobdaw was he that anything bad that could happen, most obviously happened to him?

Murphy’s Law was implemented big time today – wet and blustery as it was here in Belfast, it was the first day in years of owning a mobile phone that I left the cursed thing at home. Given the day that was in it, I was late – nearly 20 minutes late – for picking herself up at the usual after work rendez-vous point. The very bloody day that a mobile phone would have been very handy to reassure her good self that I had come to no harm and to calm me down! Murphy you were a bloody eejit- perhaps that’s why non-Gaels refer to it as Sod’s Law. Grrr!