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On the Friday myself, John Hague and Colin Green had a little trip down to Wales to see Wales play France in the Six Nations Rugby championship. As usual I got a load of banter from the other two about speaking Welsh and clearing your throat but it was in all good humour! Arriving at Cardiff mid afternoon in bright sunshine and after a good old-fashioned fish and chips meal we moved to the highly recommended Pen and Wig pub for a little bit of Welsh culture! After a few drinks or two we left the pub around 6.30pm to soak up the atmosphere of the big game and it seemed that a lot of French supporters were in town! Buying a couple of hats for myself and my brother Tim from the rugby village and Colin adding a pin badge to his collection we then joined the crowd of supporters and climbed the stairs to our seats in the stadium. From the photos above you can see that our seats were in the lap of the gods but a great view of the stadium and the pitch! On to the match and once again Wales p...

Gloucester v Ospreys Gloucester v Ospreys again! Cardiff Blues practicing tackling! Drake Scaup at Swithland Res Grey Heron at Cossington Meadows Well over the weekend I celebrated my 40th birthday, watched a bit of rugby and did some birding on the Sunday. Firstly on the Friday night I spent a few good hours in The Orange Tree celebrating my birthday and would like to thank my friends for all the cards and presents I received. On the Saturday in the morning I felt like death warmed up!! and was in two minds if I should go to the EDF semi finals in Coventry due to me feeling so ill. But after have a bit of breakfast which didn't come straight back up I decided that I might be OK to go. So in the afternoon I joined the good numbers of different supporters at the Ricoh Arena. The first match of the day was Gloucester v Ospreys and I must admit it was a rubbish game, loads of handling errors, defences cancelling each other out, and a number of injuries to players who might be going on...