Today I took a mad notion to do afternoon tea for the three of us. There is an important rugby match on. Ireland v Scotland, so it’s being scoffed while my daughter shouts at the TV
Looks so yummy! Rah rah! I’ll have the turkey and cranberry, please. And some cake, of course. It’s an impressive spread.
Reminds me of the tea party my sister hosted for my young (maybe 8 years old?) niece’s birthday many years ago. All the little girls loved eating off of real (thrift shop) china, and having my BIL as their server.
Being very English, this was not a good rugby weekend for me
However, I watched the local team kick some butt today Bristol vs Harlequins. Very good first half, Quins were unlucky with the scoreline, but then they didn’t really turn up for most of the second half.
But I have to say, I hope we win next weekend it will mean the grand slam for us. My daughter is going to be in Dublin for her atmosphere, unfortunately she couldn’t get a ticket for the match.
It’s the six Nations tournament, Ireland, England Scotland Wales France and Italy. You can win the championship on points, or win all your matches (less common, this is a grand slam) there’s also the triple crown which is kinda a sub category of the tournament just between Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
Ireland has to play England next weekend-for our last game, so far we’ve won all our matches, so if we beat England we will get the triple crown and the grand slam and likely the championship. And it all affects rankings for the rugby world cup.
It’s remarkable really, we have a population of only 5 million and rugby is the third most popular game here. In other words if you play hurling or Gaelic football, you don’t play rugby, so we’re drawing from a small pool. We just have a great team this year. But you can never predict the outcome so all fingers crossed for our final game (sorry @Renstar)
And definitely my preference over France winning anything especially after that hammering.
I’m hoping that England’s humiliation will gee them up and we’ll see a least a contest!
Had a work meeting with one of our Dublin colleagues and someone asked if he was into rugby, I had to sulk for a few minutes during that conversation!!!
In 2003, I went to the game in Dublin, the atmosphere was so amazing, I loved it and everyone was so friendly.
Indeed they are. I went to see Bristol Bears vs Harlequins yesterday.
Thee was a group of students in the row in front, 1 was a quins fans. We were surrounded by families with young (<10 y.o) kids who were all Bristol fans, she was properly heckled by the kids, and loving it!!!
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