Gazing at life through a haze of opiates, I’m intensely relaxed about not getting a proper blog post up, and just giving you the matches.
But I will add an emphatic TSK!* that the Cardiff and Ulster matches have yet again been scheduled at the same time.
*This is more vehement than a PFFT!
6N Blog Meet Update
The Heidelberg Tourist Information Bureau has posted this:
Falcon tries to decide whether to deliver a TSK! or a PFFT!
And this.
And as a reminder, here’s the info.
On the telly this week
Friday 3rd January
| Cardiff 14 – 16 Scarlets | 19:35 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Ulster 38 – 17 Munster | 19:35 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Sales 48 – 10 Harlequins | 19:45 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 4th January
| Treviso 19 – 38 Glasgow | 13:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Gloucester 29 – 15 Bath | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
| Dragons 25 – 18 Ospreys | 15:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Zebre 41 – 13 Cheetahs | 15:00 | Freesports |
| Leinster 54 – 7 Connacht | 17:30 | Premier Sports 2 |
| Edinburgh 61 – 13 Southern Kings | 19:45 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 5th January
| Wasps 31 – 35 Northampton | 15:00 | BT Sport 2 |
Ovally Balls 
Nice opiating, Thauma.
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Ain’t nothin’ more veehement than a Pfft! Mind you, that’s still pretty strong for Embra genteel types.
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Woooo!
Fresh new blog!
First.
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…Almost first…
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Speaking of pffts….
Pfft – that Heidelberg-friendly film didn’t show ANY rufty tufty pubs, or shady characters feeding ducks while hiding from the polis (and falcons as well).
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A dearth of terrestrial telly options this weekend. Bloody marvellous.
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Right, well, it’s a TSK! delivered with a Tcod-like cold, hard stare.
TomP posted a blog by Rhys Webb’s wife at the end of the previous thread: https://unemployedmumof2.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/one-way-ticket-for-four/
Quite interesting for me as I was also moved to France at a young age, but my parents gave far fewer shits about how I felt about it. Likewise when we were later dragged to the US, which was much worse.
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From t’other blog but I was very slow typing…
Happy New Year Flair.
Ticht – yes it is a lovely town, but I forget to notice sometimes living here. I’m typing this in a rufty-tufty bar a stone’s throw away from that church.
And like with all tourist travelogues there’s a shabbier side too. E.g. that beautiful church was wrapped in scaffolding and plastic for many years due to renovation work, but it is ‘free’ now.
The wider Heidelberg City is undergoing demolition and building madness, the outer ring is just one massive building site. Infrastructure for transport, new housing and business projects with no end in sight.
Well worth a visit though, and so convenient for airports and Eurotunnel!
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Not sure if I posted my pic of the falcon that lurked on my balcony on here. I’ll dig it out later.
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Iks – there are actually a couple more minor-league matches of the Welsh persuasion: Ebbw Vale v Merthyr this evening at 19:00 (BBC 2 Wales, BBC Sport website, BBC red button) and Cardiff v Llanelli tomorrow at 17:15 on S4C. Don’t know if this helps in Germany!
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Shame you can’t make the meet, BB. I’d have taken you on a tour to the Heidelberg underworld, at your own risk of course…
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Bonne année, Flair!
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Thanks Thauma. I get the normal UK telly channels here via the camouflaged satellite dish we have on the balcony. I was hoping to feast on recordings of the Welsh derbies tomorrow because I have a free evening. Pretty annoying.
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I’ve updated the ATL with Iksy’s further info on Heidelberg / the blog meet.
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Cat Iks is the biggest Cat in Heidelberg, Yos. His female sidekick Cat Minx is however the dangerous one.
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Ha that’s sweet Thauma, thanks.
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I’m all sweetness and light these days, Iks. It’s the opiates.
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The most vehement pfft on here is delivered by old llama lips. Not sure if a tsk! can claim the high ground just yet.
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That’s a blog title to warm the old cockles.
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What, the llama who thinks he’s a chimp? Pfft!
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Big shout out to Cat Minx
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I had a very exciting day today, because I got to leave the house and go to Sainsbury’s for about 20 minutes.
Well, that’s apart from work issues. Yesterday I logged in to work and found that the production systems were in a parlous state, and spent all day getting them running(ish), only to find that they were down again this morning.
This was quite fun, because I was getting very bored with Solitaire.
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Great work, Thaum and thanks!
Happier 2020 everybody!
May your weekend’s rugby be glorious………………….
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F**k me!
Johnny Gray has joined Exeter!!!
pip, pip!
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……..2 year deal starting next season
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Yos, Yorkshire Carnegie are a disaster. Horribly run, losing money everywhere, lucky not to be relegated to Yorkshire Division 7 at the end of last season. If Big Phil can get 2 wins this season, he’ll have achieved great success.
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HNY Slade. Hope all is going well with leg bones and joints.
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@MrIks
On a scale of 1-10, how likely am I going to use the phrase ‘Die Ente its mĂ¼de.” ?
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@tomp
I’m sure all will be fine once he re-signs Colin Stephens.
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If you need an appropriate soundtrack for the downtime between Sainsbury’s and work and in keeping with the situation I can heartily recommend The Opiates, by Thomas Feiner & Anywhen.
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If you booked a single room then 3 out of 10, DoggyBone.
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But if you use ‘Die Ente is MĂ¼de’ as a polite Canadian expression of apology when you feel your German is letting you down in transactions with the locals then 9 out of 10.
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Then DuoLingo must know the German culture quite well.
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Christ Phil Davies needs to update his consulting offer to include coaching on how to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes, regardless of substance and competency.
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Please don’t tell that ‘Die Ente is MĂ¼de’ is an actual expression, Herr DogBone.
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I’ve progressed to the ‘Question 1’ module of the program, MrIks, and the phrase ‘Die Ente ist mĂ¼de’ is one that I’ve been repeating frequently enough that I’ve learned it.
Also ‘Die Fliege ist wichtig.’
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Meanwhile the bloody wOes are throwing the full comeback artillery at plucky minnows the Drags. There should be a law against it.
Dragons: W. Talbot-Davies; J. Rosser, T. Morgan, T. Griffiths, A. Hewitt;, S. Davies, R. Williams (capt); B. Harris, E. Dee, L. Brown, J. Davies, C. Hill, A. Wainwright, T. Basham, R. Moriarty.
Subs: R. Hibbard, A. Jarvis, L. Fairbrother, M. Screech, H. Keddie, T. Knoyle, J. Botica, A. Warren.
Ospreys: C. Evans; G. North, T. Thomas-Wheeler, S. Williams, L. Morgan; L. Price, A. Davies; N. Smith, S. Parry, M. Fia, A. Beard, B. Davies, O. Cracknell, J. Tipuric (capt), M. Morris.
Subs: S. Otten, D. Marfo, S. Gardiner, D. Lydiate, S. Cross, S. Venter, M. McKenzie, H. Dirksen.
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Hmmmm, I must say those expressions sound dubious to me, BoneyDog. I’ll check it out with MrsIks. Unless it’s pronunciation practice or some such.
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Ospreys 10 and 15 is harrowing.
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I don’t think they’re meant to be phrases for everyday conversation, MrIks. I just found amusing that I was being asked to translate ‘The duck is tired’ or ‘The fly is important’.
And my favourite, ‘No, I am beautiful.’
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Doggy-bone: the first Spanish phrase I learnt was yo soy irlandesa, which is at least true. Although my parents had had an ashtray for yonks that said con el vino y la esparanza, todo se alcanza which is a great saying. (With wine and hope, one can achieve anything.)
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Best Spanish word is pihippy. Don’t @ me. (no direct English translation – it’s a portmanteau of pijo and hippy. Poshippy. Maybe trustafarian is close but it’s not quite the same)
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Yos – in Buenos Aires, they have la feria hipi, the hippy fair, a sort of craftsperson’s market. It’s good; you can get some really cheap hand-crafted leather goods and so on there.
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Thaum – that is an interesting phrase.
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I started Scottish Gaelic on Duolingo yesterday.
Today I had to translate “The big chicken and Irn Bru”, which is probably unique to this language programme.
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No Legends v Shameless Turks for me tonight. I’m off to meet my mates who moved to Paris last year instead.
Gutted to be missing my favourite annual fixture.
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I started Irish as well, but it’s taken a bit of a back seat to German at the moment. Is there an Irish equivalent to ‘The big chicken and IrnBru’?
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Is it too late to take them to the fixture, Yos?
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Bloody Munster have scored against our heroes.
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