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Wiltshire Warrior Dragon

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  • Birthday 12/07/1950

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    near Salisbury
  • Interests
    sport (RL [obviously!], table tennis [as a player], ice hockey, GAA, shinty), choral music (especially the Anglican tradition), family history (in Shetland), bird-watching

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  1. You need to explain to Mrs TYB that the splendour of Cat Bells can only be fully appreciated at dawn. After that, how else to fill the day? Explain you have heard about an attractive open space in Whitehaven and offer to take her there! Put it another way, TYB, are you man or mouse? Sorry, was that "Eek" you said in reply?
  2. Apologies that this is a day late. Ellery Hanley was 63 yesterday.
  3. From my initial introduction to TGG in the early 1960s, Wigan -v- St Helens, Challenge Cup, 2nd round, at Central Park, on Saturday, 27th February, 1965. A great contest before over 39,000. Only one try, when Brian McTigue slipped a gem of a short pass to Roy Evans who galloped about 45 yards to touch down under the sticks. 7-2 to Wigan who went on to beat Workington Town, Swinton and Hunslet to take the cup. Nowadays, I very rarely get to see live games, so from more recent times, the gem has to be seeing Les Dracs beat Warrington at Wembley in the 2018 cup final. There was a moment, well into the second half, when yet more Wire pressure led to a kick on the last dropping down just under the Catalans' posts. Remi Casty jumped and took it cleanly and with an amazing look of determination on his face, which I will never forget. I knew then that we would win. A highlight before the match had been in a bar near the Wembley ground where a middle-aged Wire supporter, looked at me in my Dracs' replica shirt of about two seasons before and said, very deliberately, "Do-you-speak-English?" "Yes, I do, thanks", I said in my best Queen's English, and we had an amicable conversation about why a Brit would support a French team. When I pointed out that, in my youth, I had been an out-and-out cherry-and-whites' fan, I think she thought Catalans Dragons was something of an improvement on that!
  4. Disappointingly parochial range of choices, Paul. Couldn't you spread the net a bit geographically wider?
  5. Thanks, fevnut - an enjoyable, quite nostalgic read. I seem to recall the Toulouse -v- Widnes quarter final upset being on BBC TV, with one of the rather non-plussed Vikings that day being Terry O'Connor, or do I imagine all that?
  6. For his sake, I hope not. It's a banned substance on the RFL's list, isn't it?
  7. I don't usually watch the NRL, so will concentrate on the two SL matches, but, due to other commitments, may well end up watching both later on Good Friday. Incidentally, one of the Stanley family once said that there are only two sporting fixtures which can properly be described as 'derbies'. One is the famous horse race in this country; the other is St Helens -v- Wigan at rugby league. By his reasoning, I suppose Hull FC -v- Hull KR is a game of great local rivalry, but not a 'derby'!
  8. Where is 'here', Irish Saint? I ask because your profile details indicate you are in Belfast and the UK government seems to think that Northern Ireland has a bank holiday on Good Friday! Here's the link: UK bank holidays - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
  9. What a difference a day makes (as I believe a popular musician was once heard to observe!) Today in the New Forest it is still, warm (about 17 degrees) and sunny. And suddenly there are brimstone butterflies (the vivid yellow ones) absolutely everywhere - dozens and dozens of them. A great sight!
  10. Despite the grey, dank weather down here, Spring does seem to be arriving. In a brief, more sunny moment yesterday, a song thrush at the top of a tall tree in next door's garden was going through its stunning repertoire - guaranteed to uplift the human spirit! In Hampshire, in the space of a week, reports of an occasional solo sand martin (usually the first of the hirondine species to be reported back here) have given way to counts of 8 to 20 of them together. The chiffchaffs are apparently back in full voice, though I haven't myself heard that yet.
  11. I think the correct answer is probably 'No', Padge. I think their numbers can fluctuate and it is easy to not be too keen on them, because we risk being sentimental about their aggressive scavenging of other birds' nests, for instance. As the children's song implies, they can be seen in quite large groups and I suppose heading into the breeding season, but before they have all paired up, is probably a typical time for that.
  12. As I recall (so could be completely wrong!), they also recorded an introductory tune for Money Box, the BBC Radio 4 programme. That programme is extant, but the signature tune, sadly, isn't.
  13. My flippant suggestion that, with a resident male called William, the new female would be called Kate, has, I am pleased to report, proven unfounded. She is to be called Mel. Here is the explanation from the cathedral's website: "Mel is named after Melesina Trench (1768 –1827), Irish writer, diarist, poet and social campaigner who’s Latin epitaph is still visible opposite the North Transept today" So now you know!
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