Rugby sunday

Yesterday I played in a 10s tournament in Oakville. Owing to the usual surplus of forwards in these games I ended up playing on the wing. I really don't like playing there as half the time one feels like a spectator. We played three games and got stuffed fairly comprehensively in all of them. That just reinforces the anomie of playing on the wing. Watching the opposition run in tries bloody miles away from you are is just depressing. A measure of how little I was involved is that in the first game, the first time I touched the ball I scored. Needless to say, it wasn't your typical "flying wing" try. I came in off the blindside wing to support a forward drive, took a pop pass and shrugged off enough of the covering tackle to just stretch the ball over the line.

Oddly enough I got a second try in roughly similar circumstances late in the afternoon. We had an advantage going so I thought "sod it, I don't need to be out here covering space" and came in off the wing to support the attack. Again a pop pass and one man to beat. Again I got low enough and with enough drive on to get the ball over the line at full stretch. Bottom line, I've played far too many 10-a-side games this year and it's high time we got back to 15s before the weather breaks.

Kitten update

The little beasties are growing fast. The biggest is now 400g though the little black one is only 250g. They are now being pretty good about using the litter box for its intended purpose though they are still very messy eaters and hard to keep clean.

A couple of them have discovered the delights of climbing all over me and the little blck one seems to think I'm a chew toy. All in all, satisfactory progress.

Film picture quiz again

Here we ago again. Ten film stills for your entertainment. Give me the name of the flick.

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Kitten pictures

Here ya go frankie_ecap! Click on the image for a gallery with four pictures.