Last night I was ‘forced’ (Mothership usage of term, meaning doing it quite voluntarily) to watch a Peter Green tribute show led by Mick Fleetwood.
There is a star-studded cast of musicians, mostly playing very well, but they insist on playing twelve-bar blues, which must be the most rigid and repetitive form of music in existence, except for the even more terrible ones.
It’s like watching endless pick-and-goes, only there might be a chance of something exciting and different happening as a result of those pick-and-goes. A try might be created, or a horrible mistake might occur that leads to an end-to-end score by the opposition.
No chance of anything like that with twelve-bar blues, even as played by expert musicians. It is going to have exactly the same key and rhythm, the same clichéd lyrical and musical tropes, everything completely predictable and boring. The musical ball gets recycled, stuffed up the jumper, and goes again. And again. And again.
It’s also like watching scrums being reset for what feels like hours, but is probably only about three or four minutes. And the same thing happens in every scrum, but the referee just calls for a reset again. And again. And again. A dystopian nightmare.
But rejoice! There is some rugby available to watch in the near future, and hopefully it will be much more exciting than that.
Onna telly in the next week or so
Showing matches that are televised in the UK and Ireland or on popular subscription services. Bold indicates that it’s on a free to view channel. Times are in the UK zone, so adjust as necessary.
Friday 6th September
| Tonga v Fiji | 04:00 | TNT Sports 1 |
| Japan v USA | 11:05 | TNT Sports 1 |
| Scotland v Wales (women) | 19:35 | iPlayer |
Saturday 7th September
| Bayonne v Perpignan | 13:30 | Premier Sports 1 |
| England v France (women) | 15:30 | BBC1 |
| South Africa v New Zealand | 16:00 | Sky Sports Mix |
| Argentina v Australia | 20:00 | Sky Sports + |
| Bordeaux v Stade Français | 20:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
Sunday 8th September
| La Rochelle v Toulon | 16:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
| Vannes v Toulouse | 20:00 | Premier Sports 1 |
Ovally Balls 
🤣🤣🤣 I was trying to avoid that, for the sanctity of the blog.
And trying desperately to change the subject, RIP Kris Kristofferson, one of the original hard men of country music.
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Apparently we’ve not got past the one-arm bandit in hospital yet. Busy day today – how was the op, Refit?
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Well, if you want to kill a conversation, introducing country music is a winner.
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i’m game for a bit of country chitty chatty :)
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This guy on my play list at the moment.
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Not sure if Jonny May even got on the pitch at the weekend, highlights of Angouleme game were not inspiring.
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Nope not injured just not in the 23. Squad rotation hopefully.
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They did both shoulders. There was an issue with the cannula for the morphine wasn’t working, so I was in quite a bit of pain. That got fixed and I had quite a good rest last night
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the cannula for the morphine wasn’t working
Eeeek! Glad they have it fixed.
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Glad they sorted it, Refit!
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I see Stuart McCloskey is out for the Bulls match on Saturday, Thauma – that’s quite a blow. He’s a big lad too!
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I didn’t even know what a cannula was 10 days ago 😅😅😅
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Deebee – ah, shite.
Refit – might you have tried to eat one?
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€250 for a visa to go to Cameroon! It’s not far off the cost of the flight there, FFS! There is a rule of thumb in Africa that the more expensive and complex the visa application process is, the more corrupt and difficult the country is to work in – on a Saffer passport, that includes Nigeria, DR-Congo and Cameroon, which are all hugely complex. And corrupt. Mind you, they’re little different to Schengen visa applications or UK ones, for that matter.
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Crickey, Ireland are battering us at the cricket as well, now. Thank feck they don’t play football!
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Did I mention, Thauma, the visa for Cameroon is so I can get On the Road Again?
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What, you want to pay tribute to a mediocre and misogynistic male writer from the 50s?
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Can you narrow that down a bit?
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Kerouac, of course!
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Cardiff defence too passive, Glasgow 7-0 up after six minutes.
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The ‘Diff shift gears and back on even terms. 7-7 approaching 20 minutes.
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It’s a good match!
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12-all now, two tries each.
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Cardiff battering the Weege scrum! 12-12 after 30 minutes, both sides with a decent try and maybe a soft one. Cardiff nick a lineout and move it through the hands, but somewhat ponderously and Tom Jordan intercepts and runs it in from distance. 12-19 with the conversion.
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It’s all going a bit pear-shaped for Cardiff now, with Glasgow scoring two more.
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And another courtesy of Huge Owens!
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Cardiff obviously made the mistake of annoying The Mighty Weedge.
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Well that all went a bit pear-shaped for Cardiff!
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I may be a few minutes behind in my observations.
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Cardiff also get the BP try through McKenzie (sp?) Martin.
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26-33 after the conversion. Then Cardiff looked like they were going to score it again, but fucked it up.
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Cardiff are now down to 14 not because of a card, but because they’ve run out of front-row replacements. Nevertheless, they are attacking.
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29-33 after a Cardiff penalty. Just under 60 mins.
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But Glasgow have scored again.
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But but Cardiff score again!
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36-40, ten minutes to go.
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But but but Glasgow score again.
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Oh dear, and once more for Glasgow.
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Well, it’s 36-22 at the final whistle. I thought Cardiff played very well against the champs; they’d have beaten a lesser team easily. Glasgow are so dangerous with ball in hand.
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Well done The Mighty Wedge!!! Although it seems like Cardjiff gave us a good game. If anything happens to Sione though, I reckon we’re fucked. Did Shanks really say he could be Lionz captain?
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Not a weekend to be an Embra fan then?
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Never a good time to be an Embra fan.
Sorry Ticht.
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Good weekend to be a Bristol fan though…
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Top of the table baybee!
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Just catching up on the rugby now. Was at a vintage fair yesterday. Very disappointing, saw nothing new.
The Lions are building a very exciting side who love running from just about anywhere. Some serious pace in the back three, especially with Edwill van der Merwe back from injury. Kade Wolhuter at 10 was spoken of in hushed tones when he first emerged in Cape Town, but never really progressed until moving up to the Lions. Sensible lad. Plenty of pace and handling in the pack as well, but may be found wanting in the grunt stakes when they head up to the heavy fields of Europe. But for now, I’ll just enjoy the all-action style and sizzling tries!
In fact, in the second half, when Edinburgh kept it close and rumbled it up with the big boys, they had the Lions number. But trying to overturn a 48 point deficit wasn’t going to happen!
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Was on the Liverpool – Belfast ferry yesterday for the Bulls v Ulster match so didn’t see it. Just as well, apparently.
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How long does that take, Thauma? Done the Liverpool-Douglas one a few times when my son was living on the Isle of Man, which wasn’t too bad.
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It’s 8 fucking hours (especially if you have a cabin). We have to go that way because Brexit: the shortest route from the Midlands is Holyhead – Dublin (2 hours or so on the ferry), but now that requires masses of very expensive paperwork for the dog.
In fact, when we got to the Liverpool docks we set the SatNav in readiness to my mum’s, and it instructed us to drive back down to Holyhead in order to arrive at hers three hours earlier than we actually did.
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Good grief! That’s ridiculous! Mind you, I was supposed to be in Cameroon today, but their visa application is worse than a Schengen visa (or a UK/US one) and I’m now going next Saturday. What used to be a five hour direct flight is now 13 hours via Rwanda, Kenya or Ethiopia because of SAA’s collapse. Still looking forward to it – first country I visited post-apartheid and still has magical memories!
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