Going bananas to hear Daly’s latest head-throw

TEATIME wasn’t progressing too well that evening last week – negotiations with the two-year-old on blueberries as a viable dessert had broken down irrevocably, it seemed – when a half-heard comment at the end of the radio sports news seeped through.

“After the break, John Daly’s latest head-throw . . .”

We immediately picked up on that reference to the American golfer, even if we had to cover the poor child’s ears to protect her from “head-throw” as a word. A shrewd offer in negotiations ended the impasse (“You can peel the banana yourself, how’s that?”) so that we could listen to the item.