three couples, three babies, and the kiltman

Monday afternoon, and the monday morning blues are still lurking around.  Quite an interesting weekend this one.  My weekend involved rugby, couples, and babies.  One of which I fit in quite well with, and the other two, well, I don’t know much about those

 First, the rugby.  Scotland was playing at home against Italy.  Great things were expected from Scotland after a comfortable victory against the Welsh two weeks ago.  Filled with confidence, we charged our glasses and roared at the screen as the Italians kicked off.  A mere 18 seconds later the Italians were in front, 7-0, having charged down a clearance kick.  Relax guys, freak occurance, still got the whole game to get back.  Yip.  In six minutes we were 21-0 down, and staring defeat in the face.  Two errant passes found Italian hands, and they broke away for more tries.  To say my friends and I were shocked would be an understatement. 

 The only man that was happy was the barman, who was cashing in as we reached to drown our sorrows.  We ended up loosing by 20 points, not a good result.  It was also the Italians first away victory in the tournament, this being their seventh year.  If it could get worse, it really did.  The Irish beat the English by 30 points, and the English beat Scotland rather comfortably.  I’m going to Scotland on March 10th to see the game between Scotland and Ireland, and I am now not overly optimistic.  We could get a real beating that week.  And with the Irish being so arrogrant as a race, it could make for a really long night in Edinburgh

Sunday brought a refreshing change. After feeling sorry for myself most of the morning, I went off to meet some old friends in the afternoon that I hadn’t seen in over a year.  I was looking forward to seeing them again, people I had a lot of fun with a couple of years ago, we just drifted apart.  The afternoon was spent with three babies, seven months, nine months, and two years.  The parents all swapped baby stories, and poop stories, and I kinda didn’t have much to add to this discussion.  They all seemed so happy, which I’m glad to see.  I don’t know if I can ever see myself in their situation, I’m certainly a long way off that point at the moment.  I thought a lot last night about it, wandering if I could see myself doing that

But I do now have a new baby story.  And it is this. 

When is the correct time to stop breast feeding your youngster?

When the youngster grows front teeth and starts clamping down and biting your nipple

 Ouch!!!

And they’re off

Here I go with my first post to my blog.  I’ve always sort of enjoyed writing, and currently I find myself with more time on my hands, so I thought I’d get into it.  I’ve recently been inspired by a new friend I met online, so here were are.  Thank you for the inspiration

I’m sure I will write about all sorts of things, my main interests are sports, music, and movies.  Right now I am fixated on following Scotland in the Six Nations Rugby tournament.  This is an annual rugby event, involving the national teams of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy, and England.  I’ve been over to Edinburgh to see us beat the Welsh, and I’m off to the pub tomorrow to see us play Italy.  In the course of the next month I will be back in Edinburgh to see the Irish, and then to Paris the following week for the French match

I also have an eye westwards, to Florida, and the Boston Red Sox spring training.  I do have a passion for baseball.  I intend to subscribe this year to MLB.com online so that I can watch games on the internet.  I love baseball, for some reason.  It is a great game, and if  I could I’d love to go and watch games every week.  I had a vacation in 2005 where I had an east coast tour visiting different ball parks, and this is something I really must do again soon.

Following football is another thing of mine.  Soccer to americans, football to everyone else, it is a game I’ve followed as long as I can remember.  A fan of Aberdeen Football Club, my home town team, and Manchester United in the English League.  As the season reaches its climax in May, things are just starting to get really interesting

I also love music, and I’m fortunate that I get to see so many bands play live here in Amsterdam.  Over the coming couple of months it seems that I have a band to see each week.  Something I get excited about, I’m always on the lookout for something else to go and see.  My favourite band is Pearl Jam, having seen them eleven times last year, with plans for one more this year.  To me, this is truely the best music in the world

And thats all I got for now