Well, 2026 turned out to be an exceptionally entertaining Rugby Six Nations tournament.

Steeling myself for 6 nations super Saturday. Not just in the hope of the results going Scotland’s way, but for the fact I’m going to be in the pub from 14:00 until after the last match finishes at about 21:45. Going to try to pace myself to no more than 2 pints an hour.

Well that was a hell of a weekend of rugby !

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Back home after a long weekend in London. So disappointed I completely missed out on the quintessential London experience. ☹️ (according to twitter) Didn’t even get mugged, stabbed or have my phone snatched once. Maybe next time 🤞😂

I’m sure I’ve seen this movie before 🤔😮

Delighted to have captured a photo of the old battleship.

Order is restored, nature is healing, the Calcutta cup is back in its rightful place.

Was in Bennett’s bar last night when the lights went out for over an hour. Nobody batted an eye, just kept drinking in the dark as if that’s a perfectly normal thing to do. Luckily the card machine kept working and a little light from the illuminated beer taps meant the staff could keep serving.

Yesterday after more than 6 weeks of hard graft I finally ate the last of the ludicrous amount of chocolate, cheese, shortbread and cake I received as Xmas gifts. The diet starts today* *or maybe tomorrow.

Every American needs to watch this:

Sorry, pardon, WHAT ? How penis injections became a Winter Olympic talking point www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

I’m just over half way through S2 of “The Diplomat” on Netflix and it is just great. The dialogue is razor sharp & whip smart. The characters are engaging & believable and acted sublimely by professionals at the top of their game. I enjoyed S1 but this new series takes everything to the next level.

Honest Bob’s been caught Honest Bobbing. 😂😂😂

I ordered an item from a French supplier. I ad to pay taxes of £13 .80 before Royal Mail would deliver. Fair enough, I have no quibble with that, but I’m incensed that Royal Mail also charged me an additional £12 as a “handling” fee. What a total rip off.

Please quote this with the time you didn’t interact with someone famous. Once shared a lift in a Cardiff airport hotel with Bobby Ball, we didn’t interact. Once sat beside Paul Bettany at the US Embassy London, we didn’t interact. Once queued behind Matt Smith at Avignon station, we didn’t interact.

Festive aircraft identification quiz. Identify all four and be guided to the OoO. Reverse image search all you like, it’ll be bugger-all help. 😂

Tough day for children in the USA. US forces detected a load of un-tariffed contraband inbound to the USA and destroyed it with a missile strike. Two reindeer survived and were seen to be waving and calling for rescue but a second strike was ordered and they were taken out too. ☹️

The downside of having a bird feeder popular with goldfinches is that they are such messy eaters. All the spilled seed attracts a flock of pigeons. Luckily the pigeons eventually attract a solution to the pigeon problem.

I saw Sinners on its cinema release and it’s my film of the year but it’s only today I learned that Michael B. Jordan played both Smoke & Stack ! That’s either incredible acting on Micheal’s part or a complete lack of observational talent on mine. 🙄

I’ve seen some dull, boring, soulless, amateur shit on TV but that FIFA World Cup draw just dropped the bar to the level of the Earth’s core.

Well whaddayaknow ! 90+ % of the articles in the press, on TV and online filled with confident predictions of what would be in the budget turned out to be complete bollocks, written to fill empty space, with zero insight or understanding.

All those journalists - led by Kuenssberg and Peston - who cheer-led Boris Johnson into Number 10 should be hanging their heads in shame today, and retiring tomorrow.

Latest in “my flabber remains totally ungasted news” 'Toxic' No 10 culture harmed Covid response, inquiry finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

I wish I knew what I did so wrong in a previous incarnation to deserve coming back as a Scotland rugby fan.

In the spring I put up a feeder with sunflower hearts in an attempt to encourage goldfinches to my back yard. Over the summer I had a pair visit regularly, then 3 young joined them later. Now I get a flock emptying the feeder every day. The greedy little swine are eating me out of house & home.

Why? Just why ?

Watched “A House of Dynamite” Quite good but I just couldn’t get over the crazy plot device where an ICBM’s destination could be calculated, but not its point of origin !

I would have someone check that the explosive bolts holding the tail on have been made safe 😮

On the SkyHistory channel at 8pm tonight. Bone Detectives : Secrets from beyond the………What ? 😬

Oh you sweet, innocent child !

Not the WRWC (yet) but a fantastic day of rugby none the less. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Happy “stale old white men on TV moaning that Halloween is only an American export, day” Congrats to Giles Brandreth for getting that particular bollox out first this year.

Laura Kuennsberg is plodding through a shit Laura Kuennsberg impression on TV right now and even that is rapidly slaloming downhill into crap parody. She’s on about donkeys now ffs ! 😂😂😂

What a day at WRWC2025 finals. Appetiser and main course.

48 hours from now I will be heading to Twickenham for finals day at he WRWC2025, yipppeeeeee !

Another Sunday photographing some rugby. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

This wasn't what I had in mind when I heard there was a show coming called The Celebrity Traitors.

Photos from NEXV v USA Collegiate Rugby Women at Kingston park. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

Not a bad crop of grapes for a Tyneside back yard ! We only planted the vine so it would hide the outside plumbing.

This, absolutely this. We should be ashamed.

Bit of a change from the WRWC in Dublin in 2017 where the matches were played on University pitches in front of crowds of a few hundred !

Leaving for Sunderland shortly. I’ll be spending a few hours in the fan zone with friends before watching Eng v USA at WRWC2025. Been looking forward to this for so long.

No. No you didn’t.

Some photos of tonight’s rugby match between NEXV v USA Collegiate Women. www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

That’s the Women’s rugby starting again so I was out with my camera. Durham County Summer Social 10’s www.flickr.com/gp/16645532@...

If you like your misinformed scaremongering to be lurid, over the top and filled with unconnected and irrelevant historical facts, this will be right up your alley. 😡

I saw the Meta prompt under the post in the first photo and just knew it would be worth clicking. 😂😂😂

Getting older I really miss not having the appetite for enormous meals any more. Holidaying in Las Vegas and I’m only ordering an “appetiser” for each meal and I swear I’m still putting on weight.* * OK, the beers** may also be a factor. ** and the occasional cocktail.