On Friday Five For 16th March
Mar. 16th, 2018 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danieldwilliamSince we last spoke...
Went for a pint with Hano in Holyrood 9A (which used to be my work local). Wide selection of good beer and really nice burgers. Which we enjoyed. Good chat. I've been watching a blacksmith make a Damascus (modern) steel sword - which has taken him about three weeks which got me thinking about the industrial manufacture of swords because I'm pretty sure that the 1798 pattern cavalry sabre didn't take three weeks to make. Had a good chat about that and also underwater robots. I had a few pints of Stewart's IPA and nice blond beer called Ferry Fair.
Had mixed feelings about the rugby. I was really, really pleased that Blair Kinghorn got his first start and played really well and scored a try and WHOOP!. Disappointed that Scotland as a whole didn't quite click. I think we let two or three try scoring chances go by. If we'd scored them it would have been a different game and we could do with the bonus points. (I'm discounting any wild chat about how we could have won that game - although we are going to have to beat the current Irish team in order to avoid New Zealand in the quarter finals of the World Cup next autumn.) MLW was forced to not watch the game because the Captain was not in the mood and see finds watching Scotland play in tight matches very, very difficult. Looking forward to Italy this Saturday. We need a bonus point win in order to have a chance of finishing in the top half of the table.
The cottage is begining to sell itself - summer is about half booked out and we're getting weekenders for March and April. We need to do some maintenance work on it. Not as much as I feared we might have to. A bit of painting and some gardening. The village was cut off during the snow and the melt water caused the middle of the village to be flooded.
My mum, sister and niece are visting this weekend. My daughter is also coming up, but for her Easter holidays. A family jamboree. I shall be making Drunken Balkan Chicken tomorrow for lunch. It is good to see mum and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of them this evening.
It is the Captain's birthday party this weekend. There will be much excitement.
Went for a pint with Hano in Holyrood 9A (which used to be my work local). Wide selection of good beer and really nice burgers. Which we enjoyed. Good chat. I've been watching a blacksmith make a Damascus (modern) steel sword - which has taken him about three weeks which got me thinking about the industrial manufacture of swords because I'm pretty sure that the 1798 pattern cavalry sabre didn't take three weeks to make. Had a good chat about that and also underwater robots. I had a few pints of Stewart's IPA and nice blond beer called Ferry Fair.
Had mixed feelings about the rugby. I was really, really pleased that Blair Kinghorn got his first start and played really well and scored a try and WHOOP!. Disappointed that Scotland as a whole didn't quite click. I think we let two or three try scoring chances go by. If we'd scored them it would have been a different game and we could do with the bonus points. (I'm discounting any wild chat about how we could have won that game - although we are going to have to beat the current Irish team in order to avoid New Zealand in the quarter finals of the World Cup next autumn.) MLW was forced to not watch the game because the Captain was not in the mood and see finds watching Scotland play in tight matches very, very difficult. Looking forward to Italy this Saturday. We need a bonus point win in order to have a chance of finishing in the top half of the table.
The cottage is begining to sell itself - summer is about half booked out and we're getting weekenders for March and April. We need to do some maintenance work on it. Not as much as I feared we might have to. A bit of painting and some gardening. The village was cut off during the snow and the melt water caused the middle of the village to be flooded.
My mum, sister and niece are visting this weekend. My daughter is also coming up, but for her Easter holidays. A family jamboree. I shall be making Drunken Balkan Chicken tomorrow for lunch. It is good to see mum and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of them this evening.
It is the Captain's birthday party this weekend. There will be much excitement.
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Date: 2018-03-16 12:56 pm (UTC)Glad to hear the cottage is doing well - we found it pretty much ideal so I didn't think you'd struggle to get it booked.
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Date: 2018-03-16 01:29 pm (UTC)It is a full on family mob.
I'm pacing myself - early night last night.
And thank you.
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Date: 2018-03-16 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-19 09:04 am (UTC)My mum thinks he's "dishy".
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Date: 2018-03-19 04:40 pm (UTC)That's a good sign, though - he can learn good practices from Hogg. He is a lot younger I assume?
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Date: 2018-03-19 04:42 pm (UTC)