Sadly, there is only one team in this World Cup playing World Cup standard rugby. That team should go on to a richly deserved win next week. Well done to them. Pity Wales could not take on NZ because that would have been exciting.
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A selection of French comments from various papers and commenters # “It was the most unpleasant semi-final in the history of world Rugby,” Marc Lièvremont acknowledged with a smile. “We won it but it was a modest triumph. It’s known from where we came and it is necessary to pay homage to the Welsh who [...]
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I have Wales and NZ winning with NZ having a tough time in taking it out in the final. You?
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Man Widdicombe did a piece which was meant to be tongue in cheek but he really does have a point: A university fresher survived a 20ft fall unharmed “because he was drunk”. Strangely this story wasn’t picked up by the national media. Can’t think why … Pavlov’s Cat said… My brother, a very long time [...]
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They both desperately wanted to take on England. Pity. England were so woeful they don’t deserve to be called England. Telegraph: The end was fitting for there can never have been a more awful first-half performance by England at such a critical juncture. Somehow, the abjectness captured the mood of their entire World Cup; bleak, [...]
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We have been here before . News in today’s papers is that Frankel, unbeaten in eight starts this year, may command stud fees of £100,000 next year. I wonder if Usain Bolt is jealous? Frankel is a truly impressive horse and that long stride is very similar to that of his sire Galileo who won [...]
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Chuckles has hit back at the music running at this place with his Vietnam series and now goes all native. You be the judge.
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This is the last time they met [before the Grand Final], in the last round of the home and away and you can see the skills on display:
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I’ve been to Venice but three times and loved it. Once was even in bad weather. I’m just wondering if the Piazza San Marco is under water daily or if this above only happens infrequently? Could anyone give me any info on this?
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Sources used are City of Art, Wiki, George Buehler, K Bismark, Wooden Boat Forum, Navsource, History Navy, MBBW and Prints-4-all. There is a type of design I absolutely adore and the Dreadnought encapsulates much of it – the swift lines, chunky bridge/wheelhouse with vertical windows, the woodwork everywhere and the classic rigs. Others admire the [...]
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England 16 Scotland 12 How sweet, how very sweet. 12 – 6 down, with me at work in a sea of women, trying to find the score – finally someone walked in and said Scotland were up and killing England. Groan:
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This was where they killed it off near the end. This was one of the biggest blockbusters for a long time. The best team of the past five years, my little lot, Geelong, were up against the mongrels, the bad boys, the ManU of the AFL, with the army of neanderthal supporters, strutting around like [...]
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LFGSS
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It would take a long process for me to get my design from paper to this computer, involving going into town to the local library for an hour and a half, so it is not going to be possible to post it here. One day I shall. This one’s as close as I can find [...]
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Do you remember when she was 13 and fighting the courts to be allowed to sail? Now she’s at the top of Australia and needs to get a move on to still be younger than Jessica Watson when she gets back to the Netherlands. Happy birthday.
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The death of racehorse trainer Ginger McCain yesterday reminded me that racing has always been peopled by larger than life characters like him (as well as others of a more dubious provenance). British racecourses are one of the few areas where the upper class and the working class meet on more or less equal terms. [...]
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This blog has shown various solutions to the age-old problems of yacht design for cruising – best configurations, size, rig and so on – and in the orthodox area, the gaff-rigged ketch seems best all up, the junk sail is the best cruising sail by far all round while others which generate speed, e.g. the [...]
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As all you vexillologists know, the study of flags includes maritime flags and there are some strange traditions which can still catch out the unwary. First up [using many Wiki articles to help with the text here] there are civil, state and naval ensigns at sea and you’d best be careful which you use. For [...]
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Conventional wisdom says vertical stemposts are a no-no on a yacht [fine for a dinghy] but for traditional British Isles/Dutch/Scandinavian craft, they are a necessity because you have to get the maximum waterline length afore the mast, especially with luggers [pictured below]. They often feature canoe sterns as well, to meet following seas.
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