Rugby Mad Blog

The season is almost upon us again, and that means two things – the Middlesex Sevens tournament at Twickenham and Streakers!! Yep, apart from a great day of sevens rugby, we got two streakers on the pitch.

So good value for money! Of course, modesty prevented me from taking pictures when the gents were running the other way… but what I want to know is, how come the security folk left it to the most petit WOMAN on duty to go and round them up?? LOL. But you had to admire their determination, it was pretty cold and windy and not really the sort of day you wanted to be cavorting around in the buff.

You can see more serious pictures of the rugby at Rugbypix.com, and there are some extras in my Flickr account.

Now then, a fortnight’s countdown until I’m back at Twickenham for the London Double Header – Wasps v Saracens and Quins v Irish. Good stuff.

The summer hiatus has given me the chance to upload some more pictures to Flickr, mainly from pre-summer 2005 games. The sets are:

• 2004-2005 Best Of The Rest
• Rugby-Related Events (including the 2005 Scrum In The Park)
• British & Irish Lions vs Argentina, May 2005

With each image, there’s also a link to the appropriate match photos on rugbypix.com, in case you want to see more.

With last year’s successful Scrum In The Park enjoyed by everyone, despite the rain, I was wondering if a similar event is planned for this year. Checking their website still gives “news” on last year’s event, sadly. Anyone know any more up to date info?

I have been a bit lax of late about posting more photos to my Flickr album. But since its the end of the season, I thought I would gather together the best of this year’s crop and post them up to Flickr. They are arranged into sets which roughly follow the major teams I’ve taken pictures of.

As the season is closing, I suspect the summer will see a lull in posts here. But if I do say anything, it’s probably going to err towards the Just Mad rather than Rugby Mad of the title. A summer of silliness seems fair enough, especially if it gets really hot and my brain begins to fry in the new office I’ve been forced into (where each developer has at least 3 machines under their desk, the aircon is pants and its so hot already you can bearly think). I must be a bit like one of Terry Pratchett’s trolls – I get more stupid the hotter it is, and perhaps I need to put my head in the fridge for normal thought processes to resume.

And talking of silliness, at least tonight’s telly includes the penultimate episode of Series 2 of the barking mad Green Wing on Channel 4. Its fab comedy, and brightens the end of the week!

Despite Flickr’s quirks sometimes winding me up, I’ve decided to set up an account for posting some of my rugby photos. You can see them at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugbymadgirl/

Never fear, this won’t be a replacement for http://www.rugbypix.com, merely another way of driving some traffic to it, hopefully!

If you’re listening, and are a member of Flickr, please stop by and say hello.

Off to see Sarries v Worcester on Sunday; bit of a crunch match all in all. Hopefully we can see a repeat of the win we had against Sale. Fingers, toes and all other available bits crossed.