To take a measure of the current state of the traditional English pub — or whatever is left of it — I decided this spring to revisit a corner of the northeast Cotswolds where I misspent my youth, an area littered with picturesque towns and villages, and studded — as I remembered it — with lovely pubs.
And for all the time I misspent studying scorecards on Ceefax in the 1990s, I struggle to recall anything much about his career.
"If I spent a Saturday shopping, I felt like I misspent my time as a man," he says.
(Crops are raised, my mother says; children are reared). Where I misspent my youth.
Sadly, I have misspent much of my adult life in search of just this kind of heat.
He asks big questions: for example, is it possible to devote a life to passions misspent, climbing, as it were, the wrong mountain?
The anticorruption unit of the Kenya police is currently investigating the group to determine whether it misspent $250,000 during the observance of World AIDS Day in 2001.
In an interview with the world music magazine fRoots in 2004, he said he chose the topic "as a way of rationalizing to myself that I hadn't misspent my entire youth listening to records to no purpose".
"It's not that money was misspent by the department; it's that people have 40 kids to keep up with".
It rewarded an aggressive, energetic start for the Ducks, but it was misspent with back-to-back minor penalties by Corey Perry in the first 10 minutes.
But May and her cronies are wrong about foreign aid, and their grumbles about it being misspent and wasted are hollow and sinister.
