Feeding the masses.

So this weekend I am cooking for 10 people before we head off to watch Glasgow Warriors V Ospreys. I’m planning on roasting a beef rib-eye (a nice Aberdeen Angus Rib Eye from Lennons, my local butcher.), Borscht, roast veg and a couple of other bits and bobs.

The recipe is out of one of my bazillion cook books called Roti. The games at 4 o’clock so were eating about 12 ish then heading over to Firhill. 

Any way, here are a few random articles that caught my eye this week;

How to pet a kitty, from Mathew Inman of The Oatmeal – Comic Genius.

Some Geek eye candy: Star Wars swimming costumes…

Finally, 3D printing with Lego.

Yikes! Has it been 7 months already..?

Yeah, sorry folks. I’ve been really busy over the past few months. I’ve had a couple of big family holidays, DIY projects and lots of work on. And I’m seasoned at procrastination…

So what’s been happening..?

Alas, the end is nigh…

Another 6 Nations tournament draws to a close on Saturday. In traditional fashion we are throwing a massive party for all our rugby watching friends.

It looks like France are going to win the championship and rightly so. they have played consistently well and been cool headed through out the tournament.

Talking about consistency (or lack of), quite a few people I have spoken to have commented on the consistency of the refereeing this year. I don’t mean the sort of comments hurled at the TV after 5 pints of the good stuff either. Now granted, the losing side will piss and moan a bit about the refs decisions but you must start to wonder when your friends who support the other sides agree that you git a bum deal…

Booster Justice

I’ve played Modern Warfare 2 online for about 3 months now and something annoys me. Boosters**.

So I was happy to stumble across this by The Sandy Ravage. He doesn’t like boosters either. So when he finds these cretins he makes it his mission to spoil their game. Watch the videos below and check out some of his other videos for some great MW2 tactics. Cheers Sandy!

A bluebird day.

The Highlands are celebrating the best snow conditions in ten years. So we thought it would be rude of us not to venture up to Aviemore and check it out.

We left Glasgow at 5 am, setting the auto-cat-feeder with enough food for a hungry elephant. After picking up our hire gear, getting parked up and changed it was 10.30. We were at the top of the hill, ready to tear it up. Except we couldn’t see further than 50m at a push. The low visibility also made the start of our run appear uphill. It was a tad weird when we started to slide ‘up’.

Impaled by your umbrella…ella.

I thought I would be writing about Welsh victories over the French this week but alas it was not to be. Yes we redeemed ourselves with some great rugby but again only managed 40 minutes of the stuff and gifted the frogs with 2 interceptions. In all honesty, 3rd is the highest I think we can now hope for in the 6 nations this year. So instead I am going to talk about umbrella etiquette.

You see umbrellas annoy me. The concept is admirable: a foldable, personal cover to keep the rain off you, but somewhere along the design of this simple contraption, the devil took over and designed the evil rain stick we have today.

Is a nice hot cup of tea always available?

Ladies and gentlemen, I am of the opinion that a hot cup of tea should always be available.

It perks up your day, comforts you if things aren’t going your way and warms you up a bit. A generally pleasant experience. Of course there are times where you would imagine that a nice hot cup of tea would not be available: 

What’s happened to the site…?

Welcome to the new look site! Not only will you find tall tales of rugby adventures but you will also find stuff about snowboarding and snowboarding gear; rants about all different types of things and general randomness.


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To kick off the randomness, here are some pictures of some fine Winter Olympians thanks to Sports Illustrated….