What a load of baloney from the BBC pundits reporting on the Six Nations match between Scotland and Ireland at the weekend.
Shame on John Barclay for not answering the question as to whether he thought the no-arms tackle by Paul O’Mahony, that took out Scottish captain Stuart Hogg, was late.
Of course it was late, My blind grannie could have seen that. Which match were you watching sir?
This was poor and weak stuff by Mr Barclay. Why wouldn’t he call it as it was? And he is Scottish! Annoying what? He even declared that he didn’t think that this caused the crucial injury which saw the Scotland captain walk off five minutes later. ‘He held his head at first and only held his shoulder when he stood up’ What nonsense?
Give me strength.
Anyway, I’ve got a bet on England at 8 to 15 to win the championship. It seems they are pretty unbeatable. Unfortunately, I think Scotland’s rather slim chances were ended with that phoney by O’Mahony.
I was up at my old golf club, Mortonhall in Edinburgh, last week and was glad to see that the professional course record still stands at 68. A score which I actually and miraculously achieved in a mid-week medal, one fine summer’s day back in 1979.
Now if you saw me duff and scrape my way round the Eden course last Saturday you would not believe this and indeed probably suspect some foul play. But no.
There are certainly cheats in the game of golf though. My favorite anecdote relates to an Edinburgh businessman playing in a medal with my brother, who was marking his card.
They came off the par five 15th and were standing on the next tee. The conversation miraculously went like this:
My brother ‘What did you have?’
Edinburgh businessman ‘5’
My brother ‘I thought you had a 6?’
Edinburgh businessman ‘a net 5’
Lordy me! For the love of Christ! Cripees. blimey O’Reilly and many other expletives.
But unfortunately, this is God’s honest truth.
Anyway, we should maybe relay this wee anecdote to Mr O’Mahony and let him reflect upon his behaviour. For it’s nice and right to be a good sport.
And you Mr Barclay should get hastily down to Specsavers, I would think.
The bistrot is getting there and we have now got to the design phase which involves choosing flooring, lights etc. We are getting a designer to have a wee look today so it will be interesting to see what she comes up with, apart from a handsome bill. We have chosen a wonderful new coffee from our supplier Mr Eion to compliment Alessandro’s and have got Paolozzi beer on tap, as well as some unusual and interesting wines on board. We will be having real loose leaf tea (Rosevear) and of course hot chocolate from The Cocoa Tree, Pittenweem.
Oops I’d better be off. It’s Monday 7.30am and I’m teeing off the Old in 40 mins.
Life sucks.