Categories: just-life
Date: 09 May 2005 18:28:23
It has been a very good weekend this weekend and as I'm sitting here listening to Rolf Harris I've decided that who better to parody with Ohhhhh Wowness!!! than 'Excited Rainbow Girl' However, I can't really be bothered to see how she writes her blogs, so I shan't be bothering to copy her style of writing as well........ I'd fail if I tried!!!!
hehehe!!!! ;)
So ignoring work (which was ok) we look forward to Saturday where there was Ice Hockey!!!!! YAY!!!!!! I know there was going round Cardiff, and ice cream and hotdogs and the like before hand, but I think the best bit with the B.H. (before Hockey) was when Lord.S. and I decided to follow ERG round, even though she didn't know where she was going....... Oh simple things.........
The Hockey was amazing...... ok, so the NHL players thrashed the GB team (not the official Team GB, but select players) 11-7, and they scored their first goal 40 seconds into the game, it was still brill. Especially as it was a charity match, so every one got more room to play with and there were no real hits. It also meant the we could see what the player could do if allowed....... Oh wow!!!!
The first period finished 3-3, with TeamGB coming back after allowing three goals in the first five min, and during the first interval there was a penalty shootout between the NHL player and the Cardiff Devils Under 14 players. The NHL players won, but it went to sudden death......
TeamGB took the lead in the second period, but NHL came back and it finished 6-5 with twenty minutes to play.
In the third NHL scored four unopposed goals to make the game safe at 10-5 and a couple of goals near the end to the game just added to the excitement...... a final score of 11-7 was well worth it!!!!
I did think that it was a shame that the version of the Canadian national anthem that they played at the beginning of the match was an instrumental one, as no-one on the crowd knew the words (apart from me) even with them in the booklet. Especially as Hen Wlad fy Nhadau came with the words. But there we go.
Sunday was a lot of fun, I got very wet standing in a waterfall, but not as wet as the guys who went swimming in the river....... I don't know what it was, but though I didn't think that last weeks hike was that good, and this weeks one was more fun, I do think that I preferred last weeks. Something was just missing, and not just Doc and Beardy who dropped so far behind that they lost the group........ and while I suppose you could say that those at the front of the group should have noticed that, those at the back should also stay in touch with the group. I was behind the main group and I hadn't noticed that they'd dropped away so how should those in the front, especially as we were travelling only about a kilometre along a path. There is a four letter word in the English language for such a case and it's "WAIT" or "wait up" but then again, I've noticed that common sense really does seem to disappear in these younger generations.
It's quite sad really. If ever there was a sign that I'm becoming a Grumpy Old Man I think that that is a very good one....... or bad sign, I suppose it's all on your point of view....... I have spent a large portion of the day moaning about those younger than myself........ inefficient lot that they are......... ;)
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Don't look at me being mean and nasty by not telling you the exact plans, look at it more at building suspence like a master film maker. Also, this way if I pull it off, it'll only be me that'll get in trouble (no, it's not illegal) and not other people as well.