Three years of coaching minirugby has changed me in many ways. For one, I was training with the senior team last night and my brain was screaming "how the hell do you play with these? They are huge!" as I picked up a size 5 ball..........
What skills/assets are you bringing to the post-apocalyptic commune/bunker/nomadic survival crew? I am very adaptable, pick up skills easily. I am reasonably fit, with a broad knowledge base, and can organise and lead. These are either the traits of a village elder/wise man or a warlord.....
Great to see that my local indie cinema the Glasgow Film Theatre is showing the new Endurance documentary on Monday. This film uses the incredible scans of the shipwreck that were released today. www.glasgowfilm.org/movie/endura...
The directors of Free Solo and NYAD use one extraordinary expedition to explore our ongoing fascination with human endurance and physical achievement. In 1915, the ship Endurance sank near Antarctica...
In a presentation today I managed to reference both Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and Weekend at Bernies. I am nothing if not sweeping in my cultural dragnet.
Word of the day (no context) is cock-a-hoop
My daughter is the only girl in her U9 rugby team (where I am one of the coaches) and every time a new player joins she says to me "is it a girl?" and when I shake my head she reacts as if I am deliberately recruiting only boys...............
My daughter changed my Netflix profile name to "Daddy" the other day. However, now whenever I get a marketing email from Netflix it sounds like they are creepily flirting with me "Hello daddy, what are we watching tonight?", cue me going "excuse me????"
On the 106th anniversary of the armistice, the final and harshest provision of the Treaty of Versailles gets imposed on Germany.
