In my previous post I wondered aloud if Gareth Jenkins should go or not. It appears the Welsh Rugby Union were more decisive than myself - just a few hours removed from Wales’ premature exit from the World Cup, the WRU have sacked Jenkins from his job. He had previously insisted that he would not resign. (more…)
Wales were knocked out of the Rugby World Cup yesterday by Fiji in quite the see-saw contest. I can see how it’s quite possible for sports fans to keel over and die in the midst of a match, it was that stressful. (more…)
Someone sent me an email asking where I got my tickets to the Tutankhamun exhibition in London, as they’d seen prices on various sites fluctuating. It appears that some companies are charging hefty premiums, being ticket resellers. I can confirm that Ticketmaster are the official ticket sellers.
Get your (official!) London Tutankhamun exhibition tickets from Ticketmaster here.
The woes of the day have been eased somewhat by seeing England thoroughly defeated by South Africa in Paris this evening. 36-0 was the score, and ear-to-ear was my grin. (more…)
My web hosts decided to take my business website offline as some kind soul had decided to compromise my server and upload a rogue PHP script. Helpfully, they did this on a Friday afternoon, leaving me bugger all time to respond to it, my site was taken down and leaving me without a site until Monday (more…)
I have recently resumed my Scrabble addiction in the form of Scrabulous, Facebook’s Scrabble application. Despite the many flaws in the system it’s become a daily fixture and I’ve racked up a respectable win-loss-draw record of 94-13-0.
Just a reminder to those on you in the UK - tickets to the Tutankhamun exhibition at The O2 in Greenwich go on sale shortly. The exhibition runs November 2007 through August 2008. That sounds ample time, but when the exhibition ran at the British Museum in the 1970’s, people had to queue up to 8 hours for tickets. (An ordeal my Dad likes to remind me about every so often.)
I’m drafting this post on the train from Swansea back to London, reflecting (seething, actually) about some of the performances of this weekend’s Rugby World Cup games. (more…)
I was astounded this afternoon by a brutal-looking spear tackle by the USA’s Paul Emerick on England’s Olly Barkley. For the uninitiated, a spear tackle is a dangerous tackle in rugby where a player is picked up by an opposing tackler, then turned so that they are upside down. And plonked on their head. (more…)