...I was in Paris.


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Attention mylodon!!! All of our favourite things - Rugby players! On a tall ship! And look, the've got the Pro12 trophy too :) This is James Eddie (affectionately known as The Jedi) and Glasgow's latest Fijian, Junior Bulumakau showing off the new strip on the Glenlee. Wonder what Junior made of the location of his first photoshoot for the club? Glasgow ( Read more... )

Apologies, as usual, for being rather absent of late. The last few weeks have been a little challenging. The centre I've worked with for the last fourteen years, and which has been housed by various universities in that time, was finally closed by the institution hosting it and all staff were made redundant. The casualisation of UK higher ( Read more... )

...for stating the bleeding obvious goes to the commentator of the Army vs Navy rugby match which took place at Twickenham and was broadcast earlier today:

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I’m just home from an immensely fun trip to Exeter with the lovely nodbear where we spent three days at Devon Records Office going through the Pellew archive with a fine tooth comb. Needless to say we were in our element and discovered all sorts of little gems which we’ll be spamming you with for months to come. The archive proved to be so entertaining ( Read more... )

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Earlier this evening I went to see Glasgow Warriors playing Leinster with my new season ticket. Glasgow won, that's three games out of three so far. However, what really made me smile was that the music they played when Glasgow came onto the pitch was this...I approve! ;)

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There was a lovely surprise waiting for me when I got home from work on Wednesday, HMS Surprise to be precise! All the way from San Diego courtesy of feroxargentea. Isn't she beautiful? :)


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This one's for charliecochrane....

This is Peter Horne's last minute winning try in Glasgow's Heiniken Cup match against Northampton yesterday....

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This is how the Scotsman reported it...

The move started deep inside the Glasgow half, the forwards carried a couple of times. The ball was moved to the left and Peter Horne, only moved to stand-off in what proved ( Read more... )