Learning to Walk

next month

Is Christmas.  Mental.

still trying!

I am still trying to figure out how to get video clips to fit into the size of the column that posts fill, so for now you will have to watch this clip by clicking on the link.  It is worth doing!

male pruning

Thanks to our friends at Hawks, despite the fact that I am not going to be playing or training all the time this year, YKW and I have joined this gym at a much reduced rate.  It also happens to be the same gym that some of Glasgow's professional rugby team use.  And so it was, as I made my way up to the training area the other day, that I noticed one of these guys doing his hair.  Nothing wrong with that of course, but then... he too made his way up to the gym and got on with his weights!

Now I have played rugby at a good level for several years and I know that when we get into the gym we have a tendency to be drawn towards the 'beach weights' (weights, the use of which will hone the upper body for the beach) which, conveniently, tend to be right in front of lots of mirrors!  I know that we can be a vain lot (especially the backs.)  But this took the biscuit.  Doing your hair before a work out; that's taking male pruning to a whole level.  And to make things worse, he was a forward!

5791

Bizarre title for a blog post, but here's where it came from...

On the way home last night we decided to stop for some chips.  We were stood waiting to use a cashpoint on Sauchiehall Street when two very drunk guys joined the queue.  "5791" slurred one of them to the other, "it's the year I was born...backwards."

Lucky for him I wasn't a hardened criminal, or even just a desperate drunk, ready to smash him over the head and take whatever money lay behind door "5791."

back in training

After my week of healthy eating, and with the prospect of pizza for tea tonight, I decided it was time to get myself back into training.  So, I went and did some hill runs!  Possibly not the 'ease yourself back in' that the experts might suggest, but I felt good afterwards which has always been a sign of worthwhile exercise.

On the marriage preparation course one of the things that it was suggested helped in a marriage was to set aside time for just the two of you.  We decided on Friday night, but as YKW left me last weekend and due to the fact that we have been away for so much of the time since we got married tonight is our first official 'date night'.  Should be fun, the question is, how many driving range dates will it take for her to hit the little white ball...?

what type of husband?

It is just after 6am and we are about to drive to the airport as my wife is leaving me for the weekend, for the first time, and the question I (and quite possibly my wife) am asking is: what type of husband am I?

Am I the sort of husband who will get straight on the phone to his drinking buddies and go out partying all weekend?

Am I the sort of husband who will sit looking at the washing all weekend never quite getting any of it done?

Am I the sort of husband who will live on take out all weekend?

What sort of husband am I?!?!