Slowlycatchymonkey

I’ve been involved in the rugby club since I was 17 years old (brace for some braggy sounding shite), Mr Slowly and I helped secure decent funding and coaches and provided all the players kit to create a women’s rugby team that went to twickenham, won awards and has produced England players - so I underestimate nothing revolving around rugby. What rugby does for these women is unbelievable. It can take broken girls and women and turn them into confident fun loving forces of nature who are able to get out there and live the life they want rather than accept some shitty lesser lot in life. It’s quite remarkable. Just a few months ago a friend’s teenage daughter was in a terrible place, she changed schools and was being bullied horribly. We suggested she came along to rugby and rugby being what it is, even as ‘quirky’ as she is she was welcomed, accepted as part of the team and within a few weeks all the bullying stopped. She was genuinely happy again. Cors it helped that some of the girls from her school play at the same club but that’s also part of the joy, you don’t let your team mates get bullied by outsiders do you! That’s one tiny example of some of the amazing things I’ve seen rugby do. Even if you are old and fragile you have a lifetimes worth of experience you can hand on to the junior section if you want to be involved, junior coaches are always in short supply. Cors it’s not the same as being on the pitch as a player but if you want a fix that can certainly do it. The pride you feel about them is immense. Personally after 30 years involvement I’m glad to break from it and relieved not to be talking about it all day everyday anymore, hence me rarely ever commenting on anything rugby related!

Difficult to play rugby without being serious due to the violence. How was the ride towards the ferry?

Mawsley is that you?

and that's different from normal how?

Fixed that for you.

You surprise me, I would have thought a nice little Royal Enfield or another developing countries bike would have been right up your street

But even so it's not a Honda is it..

Well who wouldn't be disappointed by accidentally buying bike that isn't a Honda ay Pete?

Hmm. Fixing things is fixing things regardless of materials, you'll have to look past your fairy bias

Seems like the usual Skippy Did you lose your ball in the rough again?

Sometimes you see a kid and you know hell will be in their future https://www.facebook.com/reel/219030227256278?sfnsn=scwspwa

Been busy setting the house back up for the coming year. When unpacking Angelica The Drunken Elf Angel (yes, yes I'm mentioning Christmas in September, shoot me) I noticed she might have been dragged through the odd hedge backwards after swigging too much gluhwein out of her paper bag last year. Her skirt n hat were crushed and skewiff and her lights had gone out so I've been fixing her up before Santa see's her and hands her her marching orders. Hand gathered 6 meters of glitter tulle, fixed her lights and told her to keep her battery pack in her pants, no-one wants to see that. Before - and after - Bet the debauched sot doesn't appreciated a bit of it. What? waste time? me? Never. Do something productive instead? Mañana

You saddo's.

Worse Gummidge before the crowman took over wardrobe.

Shame Pete’s got a spare ticket to his favourite an(nu)al show https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2023/08/31/controversy-over-comedy-bullfighting-show-featuring-dwarf-matadors-as-president-of-spains-murcia-region-gets-asked-to-block-it/amp/

No news is good news

I read about the red alerts issued and saw some of it. Pretty bad. I suppose I should email my landlord in Madrid and ask if he’s ok? Isn’t your son in Madrid? Or was is Barcelona? can’t remember!

As in left for the ferry?

That is a nice turn up. Thanks for the pics.

Where else would a bare bummed barbequer rather be?

Yer. Tomoz ok then after that very good. Where are you?

Somewhere Pete recommended no doubt.

Not out yet but even with the mixed reviews I'm still going to watch this when it's released. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21454134/https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/the-bikeriders-review-jeff-nichols-1234901518/

@Six30 just in case you think this gammon has fallen too far from the tree, this is my current fridge situation. See not all hope is lost.

That sounds like exactly the sort of debacle I bring on myself and spend days trying to rectify