well ive spent a total of 14 hours standing / sitting / laying in a field watching rugby over this weekend! It was the Aber 7s tournament, and i was part of the 'twelve monkeys' entourage, and after sunburning my head, my face and my chest, they got through to the semi finals where they lost to a team who cheated dreadfully, so i reckon that counts as a win for us!! They cheated by having a pro rugby player play in their amateur team - not so bad you may think, but when you put a pro on a field of guys who have never played 7s before then the difference in talent becomes apparent rather quickly!!

 

picture a nice desert scene in deepest africa, with a herd of rhinos standing around, with a gazelle leaping through the middle, kicking them in the face (Chris's jaw will never be the same again!) holding the ball aloft over its head, just out of reach of the rhinos, and running like buggery around the plain; if you can imagine that, then you can imagine what the semi final of this rugby 7s thingy looked like!! never mind, we screamed ourselves hoarse nevertheless, and 'oooooo'd' and 'ahhhhhh'd' every time someone got a ball/fist/hoof to the face!

 

Fight count = 1 (powelly kicking off against some guy from the 'rheidol steamers' causing the ref to call off the already violent match in exasperation)

 

Comedic accident count = 1 (chris stamping on his own leg in the style of a dog, when it bites its own tail believing it to be the tail of another dog)

 

Ice cream count = 1 (after we flagged down an ice cream van and made him stop for us! i had a 'festival' after i got over the shock, as back in the day they were called 'feast' i almost didnt get one out of protest at the stupid name change, but i gave in in the end, fickle old me)

 

I am now employing all my willpower to try and rid myself of this sunburn before the weekend (its ages away, and plenty of time for the burn to go away you may think, but my body conspires to ruin my life quite regularly, so knowing my luck, my face will start to peel or something equally horrendous on the day of the may ball) 

 

I am battling with my stupidity this week, to try and work out how to pre register myself for the third year of my course, whilst trying to read the book my essay has to be written on, oh, and i have to actually write the essay by this friday - good luck me!!

 

Click on the pic to see the monkeys in all their glory!!

Back row (l-r) Powelly, Tim, Pete, Tom B, Chris, Nick

Front row (l-r) Rich, Tom P, Spex, Dave, Ginger Mat, Hanson matt