Somebody said at the end there’d be ice cream… Feels a bit like Spring is stirring its stumps, doesn’t it? The promise of lighter evenings and warmer days is an attractive one and it makes you realise that this winter seems to have gone on for …

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I think you’re something else! In the interests of catching up on a bit of a backlog, I’m sat in bed early on a Monday morning, trying to recall the events of a (fairly) reckless, beery evening midweek (it’s OK, everyone, I don’…

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I long to live among the song of birdies Well, after a rare burst of five posts in a month and a certain euphoria about celebrating 20 years of nonsense, it actually felt like we might be on the cusp of something. I allowed myself to thin…

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Partly Porpoise 2017 Onwards As the national Partly Porpoise Jamboree reaches fever pitch, we come to our final five cuts from the vast PP archive. To recap, I’ve been selecting live recordings that I’ve made over the course o…

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Further Celebrations – Partly Porpoise 2015-17 OK, back to the main job of the month. Partly Porpoise is twenty years old (and two days, to be precise – it first emerged squinting from the darkness on February 13th). Festivities are gathering p…

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Summer runs through winter’s blood… While a nation continues to celebrate, I’ll just slip something else in here…  The February half term has now begun and I’ve written before about the giddy sense of liberty beleaguered teacher…

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Partly Porpoise 2012-15 OK, we’re into what I’m going to call Weekend Two of the PP20 celebrations and I’m breaking the habit of these 20 years by following through with a promise to make a series of regular posts. It’s a…

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Partly Porpoise 2006-11 So here we are, twenty years of this shivering, wretched Blog whanging on about garage punk, cumbia, psychedelia and all the rest of it…  A score of years …  and what have we learned? Not so much, …

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It’s not too late to try and make it last! Still buzzing from a gloriously gutsy but ultimately futile evening at Kingsholm (and still a little green around the gills), I thought I’d set fingertips to keyboard and make a little announcement…

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This year’s been a belter… Blimey. You think you know someone, you think you know yourself, and then you go and start something like this… You make a bit of a thing about not doing End of Year Lists every Christmas; you go o…

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We were really poor but the lineout was actually better than it’s been for most of the season. Arthur Clark did quite well. Charlie Atkinson did well and deserves a chance at ten. Worse thing was that Saracens weren’t even that good…

I keep the good times closer than the bad… I’d been hoping to make this a double whammy of a post – two dazzling pieces of writing one after another, mirroring the frenetic nature of the exhilarating two-in-two I experienced a couple …

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What they don’t know is that we’re already here… At the start of a season when proper bloggers are preparing their end of year lists, and when I probably should be spending my limited writing time and skills, reviewing a 2025 which has had quite …

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Teke… teke… teke… So, I’ve had a packed fortnight or so. Lots of work, lots of music, quite a bit of Spanish, some Laurel & Hardy-esque furniture moving (our rockstar lodgers having now moved on) and even an inc…

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Con letras…

With “lyrics”!!!

Hmm… I hope that’s not it. You might be right. I thought Santi left for the money, I don’t think Harris was offered a contract. LRZ should’ve been obliged to return to his contract at Glaws. The whole management didn’t do well…

To be fair to Skivington, we’ve simply not replaced the players we lost… not sure that’s completely his fault. The club did badly in the summer, both buying and retaining. And if the rumours about Tomos are true, we’ll soon have no top, top players…

Gonna lay right down and collapse In a stark, pounding contrast to Sunday’s private, reflective affair, our dear old Guildhall pulled out one of its sporadic, all-too-uncommon coups on Thursday, bringing East London’s urban worrier…

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She’s the one I think about and miss… So, half term at last.  And, yeah OK, it means that the clocks go back tonight (with all the accompanying gloom and wretchedness that that involves), but look on the bright side, eh? Teachers …

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Lesbian vampire flicks not an area I’ve ventured into!

Ah sorry. I was thinking Trailfinders. I’ve still not tried any of the G-H games… I probably should…

When’s that? Gloucester-Hartpury, right?
Also, I’m not clear what “Bit” is?

Better than watching Gloucester getting dicked by Exeter on replay… (which is where I was )☹️

Ah. I’ve just found a BBC2 archive thing, thought maybe that was it…

Lost me with this last tweet but I think we can all agree about Wichita Lineman. Where are you watching this?

Was it just an illusion?

So, I had a brilliant weekend, thank you for asking. Went to Kingsholm for the first competitive game of the season, which was a light affair with Gloucester spending most of the game dropping passes and making tackles. There were glimpses though… it could be another good…

No lo entiendo… aquí me parece que tenemos un “blindspot” sobre la tema de Israel. Tienes razón

Es demasiado para esperar…