Gethin Jenkins, what fantastic footwork! Great instinct there, to kick it rather than scoop it up. Brill charge down! John Hayes (No. 3) doesn’t look stereotypically Irish; he looks like he’s a member of the Munster family. 😉 (pun completely intentional) 16:16 edit: Wales 16-6 Ireland. It’s tight. O’Gara has made a few mistakes, and […]
That gives France a 43-point difference (a grand total of 53-points over their 5 games), one more than they required before start of play today to improve their chance of winning the championship should Ireland beat Wales. No thanks to a complete collapse by the Italians in the last 20 min, the 6-nations championship is […]
From BBC news: Police swan find hits wrong note A classic Scottish news story. Some ‘jobsworth’ has decided to investigate the Master of Queen’s Music’s possession of a swan carcass (now, try to dissect the nouns in that one). Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has been warned by the police that regardless of the fact that […]
chromosome pendant Originally uploaded by framboise. I’m in the process of making a silver pendant for myself. The inspiration was originally from a pair of flowers from Linda Macdonald’s collection. I’ve dropped the flowers, and given it a twist so it resembles a pair of mitotic chromosomes, with a few gold rings representing the G-banding. […]
This week’s fave clue from the Guardian’s Quiptic Crossword (No. 278 set by Moley): Issue on the Web in fourteen lines (6) Highlight to see answer: sonnet
Watching the replay ‘cos we went for an invigorating walk this afternoon in an effort to avoid depressing ourselves. The first Welsh try was quite nice work, but the second was yet another mega Scottish blooper. Just what part of don’t do that again did they not understand? (Poor wee souls must be devastated…) Then […]
I was looking forward to a Grand Slam showdown between Ireland and Wales, but a strengthened French side stopped all that. It was decent start for Ireland, with a 9-6 lead, which was soon lost through a pretty good French try. And Ireland never really got a look-in after that. Very nice try by O’Driscoll […]
From BBC news: Uefa clarifies warning to Everton How’s this for a silly headline? At the moment, Everton are in fourth place in the Premier League, 8 points clear of the Reds. There is no way Liverpool is going to catch them up for the fourth Champions League place. Plus, it’s pretty likely that they […]
In an oriental mood today; made some onigiri to take to friends’ for dinner. Used 3 cups of short-grain rice and followed my usual sushi rice recipe (Yasuko-san’s website has a good graphical guide). Not having a triangular mould for onigiri, I used my half and quarter measuring cups to pack the rice in. By […]
Tsumugi Kimono Originally uploaded by framboise. Tried on my gray tsumugi kimono with a red Yuzen nagoya obi. Still can’t get the hang of the taiko musubi; it looks rubbish from the front, back and sides. Am also starting to regret not checking sleeve lengths before buying juban/kimono on ebay. The juban sleeves stick out, […]
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