The good thing about breaking your foot is that the painkillers mean that you’re less bothered about your team getting annihilated by the Bad Guys.
Important Blog News
The plan for the 6N Super Saturday meet-up in Heidelberg, courtesy of MisterIks.
On the telly this week
Friday 20th December
| Leinster 54 – 42 Ulster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 36 – 3 Worcester | 19:45 | BT Sport 2 |
Saturday 21st December
| Leicester 22 – 31 Exeter | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Zebre 8 – 13 Treviso | 15:00 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Connacht 14 – 19 Munster | 17:15 | TG4 / Freesports |
| Dragons 22 – 20 Scarlets | 17:15 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
| Glasgow 20 – 16 Edinburgh | 17:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Ospreys 16 – 19 Cardiff | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
Sunday 22nd December
| London Irish 10 – 38 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 1 |
Thursday 26th December
| Cardiff v Dragons | 15:00 | S4C / Premier Sports 2 |
| Scarlets v Ospreys | 17:15 | Premier Sports 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Merry Christmas 🎄 to all
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Happy Christmas/Feliz Navidad/Vesely Vanoce to one and all. Here in the Czech Republic gift giving is on the 24th and Jezisek (Baby Jesus) is the lad who does the heavy lifting. Got a tour of the Plzen Brewery as one of my presents. Been on it before but it’s a good gift.
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I have a Bee Gees tribute act to look forward to.
In the meantime:
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Christmas greetings to all from the kjh clan
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Merry Christmas to the kjh’s.
*bundles Halfpenny into Santa’s sack*
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Merry Christmas Ticht.
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And Frohe Weihnachten TomP.
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Ma heid’s ringing from a family (his) party. They are lovely, but very noisy. A few hours of peace and quiet before we have to go back!
Am very grateful that they’re doing xmas dinner so I don’t have to.
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Merry Christmas all.
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Whereabouts are you in Tenerife OT? I always gave it pass through tourism prejudice until last year.
We stayed in Güímar which was a bit rough and ready at first glance but turned out to be very pleasant. Most mornings we went for a dawn walk in that strange bit of landscape at Malpaís de Güímar. Fed the semi-feral cats on the way in then stumbled over the 2-3 kms of peculiar foliage and footpaths by the sea there. I really liked it.
I guess you know already but Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a cracking little city to amble around.
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Iksy (to whom I am not yet speaking, obvs) – likewise, I’d always given the Canaries a swerve until my sister was living there for a job on La Palma. It was actually lovely. Apart from the fucking cockerel outside the hotel window that should’ve been turned into coq au vin instantaneously.
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@iksy
Costa Adeje. No feral cats but a spectacular balding mullet on the faux Bee Gees guitarist.
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OT – the plot of the play I went to see on the night I broke my foot involved several travellers getting stuck due to a snowstorm at the rather inhospitable ‘highest pub in Ireland’, including the two male members (so to speak) of mid-Ulster’s second-best ABBA tribute band.
Haute couture it wasn’t, but it was rather entertaining.
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Tenerife is great away from the big built up areas.
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Only someone in a painkiller delerium would deem it right to cock a snook at sweet ol’ Iksy.
Tenerife was my stopover when doing some work on La Palma at the observatory in an earlier life. Didn’t like the look of it when passing through in comparison to the greener landscape on La Palma, but I see it differently now.
Also know some nice boltholes on Lanzarote.
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‘And on lead guitar, Max Wall!’
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It’s these lot
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You’ve got till Thursday at ooh about 4 pm, Iksy.
Funnily enough, my sister was working at the observatory.
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Spent a week in Gran Canaria at friends’ wedding. Had never wanted to go before but he’s a good Geordie lad and she’s a fine Canariana. We stayed on the beachfront in Gran Canaria and it was great. Except for the beer, which is rubbish and too cold. Also, early on, instead of saying “si” I used “ano”, which is Czech for “yes” but means something different in Spanish.
Then get on top of my Spanish and got big dibs from the Spanish half of the wedding for being very usted polite to them and being told I could use the informal you. And to crown it all had an hour-long conversation with a taxi driver about Canary Islands identity and Spanishness. My night school GCSE paid for itself with that interaction.
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Beachfront in Las Palmas. It was April but got to swim every day.
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TomP
instead of saying “si” I used “ano”, which is Czech for “yes” but means something different in Spanish
Ha, yes it does! And it’s also amusing when people who can’t find diacritical marks on their devices use ‘ano’ instead of ‘año’.
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Thaum, Always wish my Spanish (-speaking) friends with a Felicidades than a Feliz Cumpleanos because of my laziness (and good manners).
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I was there between 1992 – 93, dog spare me.
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Iks – She was in primary school then….
TomP – my Spanish isn’t great, so I’m trying to work out exactly how awful ‘feliz cumpleanos’ might be. I know what fel[í]z means, and anos, but not sure about the cumple bit, except that I’ve an idea it has something to do with achievement.
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“feliz cumpleaños” is “happy birthday”. “cumpleanos” is meaningless but better safe than sorry.
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I was once wished feliz cumpleaños On a forum by a guy living in Texas
Of course I replied, “feel his what?”
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Happy Christmas Ovallyballs.
May you receive what you ask for and, more importantly, get what you need.
May all the valleys of the last year be the beginnings of the successes for the next.
May your team’s performances leave you happy.
May you…
Ahh, that’s enough I think.
It’s not all that poetic, but it’s all that I have.
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It’s an outrage! There’s no rugby on today.
Merry xmas anyway.
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Merry Christmas to all Ovally Ballers! Yes, even Iks! Have a good one.
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Merry Christmas, Everyone!
No exceptions!!
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Have a good one Iks, me old Duck Feeder.
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Ha, that sounds like a Spoonerism!
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Merry Christmas one and all,
I hope your glass is full, your turkey moist and the company convivial
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Having spent the guts of an hour and a half trying to add a charm to my daughters new bracelet I’ve decided that I should stick with the civil servicing and not try to retrain as a jeweller and that maybe I do need those reading glasses the optometrist suggested!!!,
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Likewise, you old page turner.
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I will be doing the deed this afternoon. I might post a picture.
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Just make sure you don’t get arrested again….
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Let’s see, BB…
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Merry Christmas, y’all. Nadolig Llawen i chi gyd.
I’m off to rescue the port.
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Merry Christmas everyone.
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International sport at its finest:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/28367290/the-day-czech-republic-held-four-world-records-cricket
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Merry Christmas from the Craig’s Clan in the arse end of Surrey!!
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Well it persisted down from about 8:30am Xmas Day so the dog didn’t get much of an outing (not a euphemism) but me and La Suava had a nice day. Breakfast in bed after a pre-rain dog-walk, presents exchanged and kick back with reading, etc then a slightly boozy lunch and quiet afternoon leading up to a minimal-fuss turkey roast with a lovely tempranillo. I’m not going to mention the sex & drugs as we’re both well into our 60s and obviously don’t get up to any of that malarkey.
Cough.
Boxing day she’s gotta work so I hope for the dog’s sake the weather improves. He’s already had the pre-breakfast walk so it’s all good…
Hope all ovallyballers and ex-AoDers have a wonderful time over the festive season.
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merry xmas everyone………………………………………………dog help us in 2020!
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xmas here is barefoot hell / lego heaven……………….depending on your perspective
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‘dog help us in 2020!’
I know. England could win the 6n. The horror.
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Christmy happymas everyone!
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Nice kill, Chimpie.
If England don’t win the 6N then we’ll have put up with how the RWC players were even more drained than after the Lionz tour, or that the Sarries lads have been feeling like the Cratchits since their ‘business’ ventures were made public.
Horror everywhere.
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I still haven’t had my proper Christmas present, but that’ll hopefully come later today as the Legends put the clown suit on Los Dragz.
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The Drags don’t need any help in donning clown suits, thankyouverymuch.
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