This is going to be the thread where I get things off my chest. I aim to be polite and not too controversial, but some things need to be said and the art of good conversation is to be able to find a "starter" subject that might inspire others to agree, or disagree, or just to give their opinions anyway.

I will try and keep this ramble on a higher, more adult, plane befitting my my elder status (ouch).

I believe that sport is for playing and not watching or otherwise paying for the privilege of others doing what they do best. I am an accountant and I sometimes fantisise about setting my office up in an ampitheatre and charging admission for crowds to watch, I could even sell television rights, sell off my branding rights to calculator and pen manufacturers. I am very good at my job and I am sure the cut and thrust of the workings of a busy accountant's office where we make hundreds of decisions every hour or how to unravel recalcitrant bookkeeping to get at the truth of accounting presentations would make rivetting viewing. The sudden inspiration and slash of the pen that saves a client thousands in tax would be a grand flourish of bravado that would have viewers glued to their screens.

Why everyone is not doing it in their own trades and professions defies me. It works for nearly every sport. Why cannot we have the same thing for Plumbers, Truck Drivers and Architects? I ask you?

We have high drama in police shows, courtrooms, yea even pathologists!, the daily life of a vet seems fasciating, even murder is of such seemingly universal appeal that it is invented in increasingly lurid and imaginative detail! Yet the daily grind of surveyors and many other forgotten occupations is considered sooo boring that nobody wants to watch.