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Snooker star John Higgins makes ‘soul-destroying’ discovery about his cue but reveals it might have improved his game
JOHN HIGGINS’ cue was destroyed during a recent flight – but he believes it could be a blessing in disguise.
The snooker star admitted he was “soul-destroyed” after making the discovery before a holiday to Portugal.
Higgins was travelling back from the recent Saudi Arabia Masters when his cue was damaged irreparably.
The Scot believed heavy rain may have been the cause of the damage as his cue was bent out of shape after being left out during a stopover, despite being stored in a case.
He said at the English Open: “During the three-hour stopover between Paris and Edinburgh there were monsoon levels of rain and my ski tube must have been sitting on the tarmac.
“When I got back to Edinburgh it was soaking wet, but I just left it in the hall as normal. I went to Portugal on holiday and before I left I went to check my cue.
“The water had actually seeped inside and the cue is ruined. It was soul-destroying. I really liked it and when I opened the case up it was like a banana. The wood was all warped.
“As I was away to Portugal the next day, I just decided to go and have a good holiday and come back to see what happens.”
Higgins, 49, has now had a new cue made and reverted to measurements he used a few years ago, when his form was better.
He hopes that will help him improve results, with the veteran at risk of slipping out of the top 16 in the world rankings, which means he would miss The Masters and have to qualify for the UK Open and World Snooker Championship.
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Higgins continued: “It is maybe a blessing, as I’ve gone back to the measurements I was playing with two or three years ago,” added Higgins, who admitted recently he was struggling to motivate himself amid his poor form on the table.
“I was going shorter and shorter and that maybe wasn’t suiting my game. It has given me a new lease of life. It is maybe a bit better.”
See the moment homeowner returns to horror house after thinking it had been kept in shipshape by house sitter
LEAVING your home unattended when you go away can be a risk – but so can the wrong house sitter, as one woman found out.
Monica Christina shared the disgusting scene she was met with as she returned home, thanks to a very disrespectful house sitter.
On her @moncristina0 account, she showed how the kitchen counters were covered with left out food that had gone mouldy.
The sink was full of used dishes and everything looked like a complete state.
Monica wrote: “I was gone for a few days recently due to a family emergency and hired a house sitter as I had some things to keep alive and a few important packages I was expecting.
“I walked into my home and the stench I was met with, I honestly thought I was being pranked lol.
“How can a person leave your house like this?”
Monica showed how her milk carton had been left outside the fridge – which she found had been confusingly switched off – and it had gone off.
She added: “For some reason the person had switched off my fridge. Not sure why, everything’s spoiled.”
She was forced to tip the milk down the sink and bin numerous food items, which annoyed the homeowner as she understandably “hates wasting food.”
Monica said she refused to pay the house sitter due to the mess they had left.
She said in the comments: “I saw red honestly, needless to say that the price for this service was £0 because I refused to pay.”
After the shocking experience, she said she has been completely put off hiring another house sitter.
She wrote: “Anyway this was deffo a learning experience and I’ll never do it again.
“Every piece of cutlery and crockery was used.
“They started to use my toddler’s stuff too.”
Her video has racked up over a thousand likes, and people were baffled at the mess.
One said: “Isn’t a house sitter meant to prevent your house from getting trashed?”
Monica joked: “I think my house sitter was broken.”
Another added: “The way I could never leave a house like this… I stayed at a family members house for a month and tidied every second it got slightly messy.”
And a third commented: “Then isn’t just bad. That’s is absolutely awful.
“To an extent where you could take them to court.
“Hope this doesn’t make you ill.”
How much can you earn as a house sitter in the UK?
THE amount a house sitter can earn in the UK varies depending on a number of factors.
However, the national average salary for a house sitter in the United Kingdom is £23,952, according to Glass Door.
The rates can depend on factors such as:
- Location
- Length of stay – some long-term assignments of three months or more can charge a lower fee than shorter assignments.
- Pets – if the owner has animals that you need to look after the fee may be higher, particularly for dogs which require more work than cats
- Property size – the bigger the property the more care and upkeep may be required, depending on the terms.
‘They’re making it up as they go along!’ rage Coronation Street fans as they slam bosses over ‘confusing’ drug plot
CORRIE fans have been left fuming over an ‘out of the blue’ storyline they insist the show’s writers only created to confuse viewers.
A new character has recently been introduced to Weatherfield during Lauren Bolton’s reappearance – but fans think her involvement in the show makes no sense.
Betsy Swain appeared in the borough earlier this year when Carla offered her work experience at Underworld.
She was one of the first people to notice that twisted lawyer Joel Deering has a dark side.
After catching him flirting with her underage friend Sabrina, she started blackmailing him for money.
However, it wasn’t long before Betsy got swept up into something more sinister.
Joel was revealed as the father of Lauren’s baby and the reason why she went missing, as he attempted to keep her pregnancy hush-hush.
He even went as far as drugging the young girl with abortion pills in an attempt to make her miscarry.
She ended up giving birth to her baby boy prematurely, and Frankie has been battling with his health in the NICU ever since.
A terrified Betsy recently confessed to Sabrina that it was her who actually provided Joel with the pills, so she is indirectly responsible for Lauren going into labour too early.
But viewers don’t understand how she could have anything to do with it.
Taking to an online forum, one Coronation Street fan complained: “Call me a cynic. But I think the producers are making up this storyline as they go along.
“We are now expect to believe that Betty supplied the drugs and that Joel did not order them.
“And where would she have got the drugs from in the first place? Does Betty know any drug dealers?
“I have not seen Betty talk to anyone suspicious.”
Another person added: “They’re really dragging out this storyline aren’t they?
“Like you I thought I’d missed something but it seems we haven’t missed anything on screen and they’ve just decided to add another element to it out of the blue for no reason other than to confuse the viewers by the looks of it.”
A third questioned: “How did Joel make her buy the drugs? Has he got something on her that she doesn’t want anyone to know?
“And why did she think she could blackmail him for money when she first appeared in the show?”
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Israel launched a series of strikes on Hezbollah targets Thursday as the war against the Lebanon-based group widened in the wake of two consecutive days of explosions triggered in wireless devices.
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