As I’m w*rking this evening, only time for a quick update on the televised matches.
*Or possibly the one who said they preferred the short ones.
On the telly this week
Friday 6th December
| Enisei-STM 12 – 28 Castres | 16:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Agen 3 – 73 Bordeaux Bègles | 19:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Edinburgh 31 – 20 Wasps | 19:35 | epcrugby.com |
| Bath 17 – 34 Clermont | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 7th December
| Northampton 16 – 43 Leinster | 13:00 | Channel 4 / BT Sport 2 |
| Lyon 28 – 0 Treviso | 13:00 | BT Sport 3 |
| Toulon 37 – 17 London Irish | 13:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Worcester 34 – 28 Dragons | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Bristol 37 – 11 Stade Français | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Zebre 27 – 24 Brive | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Leicester 59 – 7 Calvisano | 15:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Ulster 25 – 24 Harlequins | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
| La Rochelle 24 – 27 Glasgow | 15:15 | BT Sport 3 |
| Munster 10 – 3 Saracens | 17:30 | BT Sport 2 |
| Ospreys 19 – 40 Racing | 17:30 | BT Sport 3 |
| Bayonne 11 – 19 Scarlets | 20:00 | epcrugby.com |
| Cardiff 54 – 22 Pau | 20:00 | epcrugby.com / S4C |
Sunday 8th December
| Gloucester 26 – 17 Connacht | 13:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Sale 20 – 22 Exeter | 15:15 | BT Sport 2 |
| Toulouse 23 – 9 Montpellier | 15:15 | BT Sport Extra |
Ovally Balls 
Poor man’s Pivac.
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Hi TomP,
We’ve not had the same level of flooding in Jo’burg as they’ve had in Pretoria, luckily. Today is the first morning that the sun has shone since before I left for Italy on the 27th of November! There’s been some isolated flooding in Jo’burg, largely around areas that border onto the rivers in the north, but not too bad.
From memory, Jo’burg sits atop two catchment areas, so our water naturally flows away from the city, whereas Pretoria is slightly lower and has a number of catchment areas around it (Harties, Hennops River etc), so I would imagine it’s more prone to flooding.
Our garden was under about a foot of water, but nothing too serious – it drained away in a day.
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Fascinating discussion on catch up on the Scottish/Irish/English/land issue by the way. That’s one of the reasons I love this space.
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“That’s one of the reasons I love this space.”
Too late Deebs, Yosoy has already taken that job.
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Yeah, the space is mine. You can have the land if you’re able to swindle the Celts.
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I occupy space. So there.*
* Not all of it, despite client lunches and expense accounts, I hasten to add.
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“I watched Plan 9 from Outer Space (twice), so I think I should step up to the plate here.”
Pfft. Back off, tiger.
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Saying you can have the space if only you can swindle the indigenous population is not much of a challenge to a South African of European heritage.
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So Ian Foster, eh? Stepping into the shoes of the man who presided over the decline of the Greatest Sporting Team Ever™ as his trusty sidekick. A few (very generous, I think) pointers from me to Ian before he gets going:
1) Find props who can scrum – Joe Moody is useless and the back up isn’t much better;
2) Put Barrett back at 10 where he belongs, the Mo’unga experiment wasn’t great;
3) Stop dicking Ardie Savea around and give him the 7 jersey;
4) Find a replacement for Read ASAP – he’s well past his sell by date, no matter how good he is;
5) Is Sam Whitelock still up for it?
6) Crotty and SBW out of the picture allows Goodhue and ALB to really shine now – let them;
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Saying you can have the space if only you can swindle the indigenous population is not much of a challenge to a South African of European heritage.
We learned from the masters.
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‘Boris Johnson hid in a fridge while being pursued by a TV reporter attempting to interview him on the eve of the general election
“I’ll be with you in a second,” Mr Johnson replied, before escaping into a large fridge.
In a video of the incident, one of the prime minister’s aides can be seen mouthing “oh for f***’s sake” after seeing Swain approaching the group.’
Hid. Inna fridge. The PM.
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“Ed Sheeran named UK artist of the decade”
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End times.
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Ed Sheeran looks uncomfortably like Boris Johnson. Like Boris shagged a large red sloth in between his other dalliances. I hate Ed’s music as much as I like BoJo’s politics.
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*dislike Bojo’s
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I met serge Betsen yesterday. Managed to spill beer on him but he didn’t notice.
Also met Rory Underwood who was nice.
I asked Ray Winston where his tool was and told the bald guy off the apprentice that he’s fired. That seemed to annoy him.
Was too drunk to collect biscuit data.
Hanging today.
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“Hid. Inna fridge. The PM.”
Yes, but Jeremy Corbyn.
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Cool beans, Craigs, a good day all in all.
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As for Boris shitting Johnson, who knew The Thick of It would turn out to be a documentary?
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the thick of it was probably a documentary at the time. We’re way beyond that depth now.
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Top work craigs
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10/10 for effort and execution. That’s better than the time Seb Coe ran past me in a rush and some way said “keep running!”
Seb sneered in the way you would expect William Hague’s best mate to.
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Oh, I also met blog fave Flavia off Strictly and some guy she was with.
And Gareth Southgate.
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It’s quite long this video but has a very important link to history. This is about the actual model of fridge from the inside of which Winston Churchill made his famous “We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches” speech:
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Was there anyone not at this shindig?
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“Was there anyone not at this shindig?”
There was no one to ask the biscuit question.
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Chimpie – Harry Redknapp and Stuart Peace came. As did John Barnes and Chris Kamara. Don’t really care about them though.
Kelly Brook on the other hand….
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Ol Musky wasn’t there.
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Probably taking his rocket truck for a spin out in space.
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This was some corporate entertainment, right? With free nosh and booze?
Did you say hi to Deebee?
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@Deebee. The Killer Tomatoes films are shite because they try to be ‘funny’.
Plan 9 is awesome in it’s sincerity, and yes Bela died after filming a couple of scenes and a local chiropractor took over his role by keeping the Dracula cape across his face for the whole time.
A fair-few A-listers can be spotted starting out in b-movies. Not to preempt any cwis questions, but an obvious one is John Travolta in ‘The Devil’s Rain’, which is a bit of a stinker.
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Iks, Nicholson would be a supreme example working with Roger Corman, no?
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Stallone in the porn film. Schwarzenegger in the body building doc.
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Shameful theft by the All Blacks. Why can’t they bring through their own talent instead of taking a short cut to the top by appointing a talented Turk?
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Tomp – it was part of the ‘charity day’ where celebs could represent their charities. There was a lot of booze and a bit of food.
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Hugh Grant in Lair of the White Worm
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“Ol Musky”
Ah ha! I knew there was something going on, here is clear evidence of Ol Musky fraternising with law enforcement before his defamation trial.
The fix was in, the diver never stood a chance
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Chimpie, a bad movie but arthouse rather than B.
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I remember Arnie in a film called Stay Hungry from the mid 70s (I saw it later), he played a , ahem, body builder.
Wiki has this little nugget about his performance
Schwarzenegger won a Golden Globe for “Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture” for his portrayal of Joe Santo, though, it was not his debut role, as he had played Hercules (as “Arnold Strong”) in the 1969 film Hercules in New York, a gangster’s henchman in Robert Altman’s 1973 film The Long Goodbye and a masseur in the 1974 television film Happy Anniversary and Goodbye.
Fourth time luck dayboo.
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Jimi Mistry will be annoyed Craigs didn’t recognise him but did recognise Flavia.
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Just had an email from someone called Iceman.
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The Times with a reassuring justification for supporting the Conservatives:
“Furthermore a Tory majority would free Mr Johnson to act boldly in other areas. For electoral reasons the manifesto steered clear of setting out policies on many issues that will need to be addressed in the next Parliament.”
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Just because you’re all getting along so well, I’ll drop this into the mix:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/millenials-generation-x-baby-boomers-a7570326.html
Us Generation Xers deserve medals from the mobs around us.
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yeah, Deebs, Gen X rocks
Though writing that made me think of the Billy Idol band Gen X, which was apparently named after a book called Generation X, which was about youth culture in the 60s (ty Wiki)
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OT – yeah, it was him. He was very nice actually. Especially seeing as I was probably an annoying, drunk arsehole by that point.
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Normally I’m just an arsehole.
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and drunk. Don’t forget drunk
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oh – and annoying, too………………………
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Quite something not to be annoying in the circumstances.
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I see Fleetwood Town are letting down political football in the North West. Hopefully Liverpool or Everton will get them in the cup and give them a good lesson.
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