Dozy
David Evans
Blue Mountains, Australia 
Member Since: Aug 31, 2007
Last Login: Jul 4, 2009
Profile Views: 7556
Points: 1713
Status: I can resist anything except temptation. (3 months ago)
Homepage: www.tomorrowland.info
Birthday: Jan 1, 1937
Occupation: Retired
About Me:
I'm an anachronism -- a Morse telegraphist in an Email age. I spent the '80s competing in triathlon and running marathons, was the breakfast announcer on AIR-FM community radio for a couple of years and called square dances at Footloose Squares. These days I teach Creative Writing at U3A.
Most of my stories and newspaper columns are at http://www.tomorrowland.info
Average chess player. Have won a few restricted tournaments but nothing to get excited about. I'm hoping those people who believe in reincarnation have got it right because, if that happens, I'm gunna start studying chess a whole lot earlier next time around.
For all those people who keep asking, "Dozy" comes from a column I wrote for a Square Dance magazine. I used the pseudonym "Dozy Do" and the editor called the column "Dancing With Dozy". It stuck.
Submitted by
Dozy on May 5, 2009 6:22pm.
Last week I was blundering through a game in my usual inimitable style when I overlooked a pawn fork and the loss of a knight. Normally, I'd have said, “Oops!” or something equally intelligent but on this occasion I said, “There's been a murde...Read more »