" 'They're bluffing — I'm going to call their bluff.' I'm a working-class kid.
"If I bluffed, I got away with it," he recalled.
And suddenly feeling life calling my bluff, I booked a flight.
Speaking in the Clydeback and Milngavie constituency, a safe Labour seat now under threat from the SNP, Miliband added: "It's a combination of bluster and bluff; I gather he has got a book to sell".
If this sounds knowledgable, I'm bluffing: I only learned these facts the other day when I read The Godwits Fly, a novel by Robin Hyde, who uses the birds as a symbol of the longing many New Zealanders felt – at least in her day – for England, the place they still thought of as home.
He also should go on TV poker, Texas Hold 'Em, because he is the best bluffer I ever saw.
She can play blind man's bluff, I'll play blind man's muff.
I'm not bluffing," I told my parents so many times that it became a sort of mantra.
With poker you can talk through what you're doing, so, "With this hand I'm doing that because I think the guy is playing tight," or if I think a guy is bluffing, I can explain everything I'm doing.
The next day we motor to Ängelholm, where we indulge in a bout of Kubb-throwing (the Swedish answer to skittles, but using sticks thrown at logs) in the garden before a boozy dinner with the in-laws (I think I bluffed it), then a night at the Gallerihyttstigen B&B (+46 4311 0554, gallerihyttstigen.se, rooms from £50pp) and some bracing fun in the outdoor shower.
