Me: Should we bring some water to them on the field?
Wee Jen: (in thick Scots) Nae, there's enough of it coomin' doon from the sky.
(Obviously, it was raining. A lot.)
Here's some pics from today's game, courtesy of my rookie sister, Anne/"Armchair." We're in the green and navy:
Bob (my rugby mum), getting the line out:
You can actually see how hard it was raining here (click on the pic to enlarge):
Frankie, going for the line out:
That's Bob (my rugby mum!) in the front pod:
In cool news, I found a Chinese grocery today! And the best part is: I FOUND PORK STICKY BUNS. FROZEN.
And that means that I can steam them for 15 minutes in my rice cooker and feel like I'm having real dim sum. (They also had frozen shumai, but I can only carry so much, and I was on a mission for soy sauce.) The soy sauce was for tonight's teriyaki chicken dinner. Very tasty. Unfortunately, the Chinese grocery doesn't sell ginger, and neither does Tesco. I was about to give up when I stopped in a little tiny hole-in-the-wall grocery on the way back to my flat. To be honest, those sorts of groceries are a dime a dozen here, there's two down the block from me. But I did get this for only 10p:
(Like how you can still see the pork sticky buns in the background? Yeah, me too.) Obviously there's a little arm missing that I used for dinner tonight, but still, I think 20 cents is a pretty good price for a piece of ginger this size. When I got it, I took it up to the counter and put it down in front of the guy at the cash register. He just sort of looked at me, so I just looked back at him. He stared at me like I was stupid for about 20 seconds, before he finally shook his head and said, "ten pence." I'm still not quite sure what to make of this exchange.
Also, found this helpful animation about chavs. Ok, so they're not neds, but it's still kinda funny. If you can understand what they're saying, that is. In Me Burberry Animation.
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