A lot of people have made out that having the rugby on in the morning is a bit of a pain for fans. I’ve been quite enjoying the matches so far. The last two weekends Fliss and I have rotated cooking a Canadian style breakfast to go with our morning rugby. This week was my [...]
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Weekend Rugby
While last weekend involved a hilarious last minute rush to get a proxied ITV player working while in Paris this weekends England game just involved getting up at 6.50 on a Sunday morning. As some have pointed out I am not yet a Dad so this early awakening on Sunday is an alien concept to [...]
Mountains, valleys and the meaning of romance
We spent the weekend in Wales on what has become an annual tradition of post-winter walking loosely organised around a couple of friends birthdays. The location changes every year but this year we were based in a hostel in the Snowdonia National Park. By convention there are usually two walks, higher and lower. I opted [...]
All downhill after the first climb
Today I’m quite achey after Saturday morning’s excursion to the top of Alderley Edge . Although the ride to the base of the climb was fairly easy the actual mile of steep ascent defeated me as well as the chain on Fliss’ bike. By the time we got up to the Wizard Coffee shop we [...]
Waterfalls
We spend Saturday visiting the big smoke for a birthday party and house warming. For Graeme’s birthday we frequented a cordoned off area of an Ausie Sports bar to watch the two Rugby international. England where predictably beaten although managed to hold onto their dignity up until the last twenty minutes when it all went [...]
Defeat by the Red Dragon
Most of Saturday was taken up with the Rugby. We tried a new layout of the front room so we could fit everyone in front of the TV. We more or less succeeded although without the backing of the wall the Buddha bags do tend to achieve a rather flat wide aspect. Fliss has convinced [...]
