We wonder if part of this is his demeanour. If you had a Sir sporting a 6′ 5″ rugby forward build with strength to match telling you that he “takes no nonsense from his sons or pupils,” then you might suddenly become the fidgety boy just watching his videos too. He goes on to ...
Gloucester.For the rest of those involved in the mini-rugby festival, it would be the first and last appearance on the hallowed turf, with the solitary exception of a lad by the name of Peter Richards, who went back there last season as the substitute scrum half when Wasps won the ...
While he may not be an Olympian like his girlfriend, McManes is also an athlete. He played football at Yale from 2013 to 2016. Hisbioon the school’s athletics website noted that he was the captain of his high school football team for two years. McManes has also played rugby for...
Yesterday Steve sent me this visual of a recent donation at Bike Works maybe you saw it on instagram like 18 hours ago but it brings back memories of sitting on a stool in a windowless room with semiadequate ventilation hunched over a Mad Fiber wheel that looked exactly like the last wheel...
Slung them in the bin yesterday, and put on a nice fresh pair. RM: The reason I bought six pairs is because they were reduced to £6 each. GS: That’s very good. Romantically, I thought everyone should have a much-loved, well-worn pair of brogues. But you’ve shattered that and...
Yesterday I had a great discussion with my colleague and friend Kate Smee, mainly around the Black Lives Matter movement and what we are doing as educators to tackle systemic racism. Kate reminded me about this display project when we were discussing Black History Month, as she is hoping to ...
An "old fashioned" policeman, who once guarded Mr John Major, the former Prime Minister, was cleared yesterday of deliberately batoning a teenager in the face - breaking his nose - during a scuffle outside a rugby club disco.As Pc Bernard Plumb was acquitted of causing actual bodily harm ...
Yesterday we had a west wind, which would have suited me very well for today as I went along the shore line next the railway in a north-easterly direction. Instead I got a north-east wind in my face all day. It was so cold I am sure it came all the way from Norway. It turned...
An ugly, rugby-ball shaped creature that seemed to be made of felt suddenly popped up behind the table. Its eyes were large and frog-like, and bizarrely it had a many-toothed zip for a mouth. “Well, you can’t!” it said, in a voice like an unfiltered Dalek. “It’s mine!”...