Twickenham Saturday 29 May 2010 - Nat's Report on the Guinness Premiership Cup – Vipers Under Twelve's (12’s) Trip (incomplete)

We took Nat to the Vipers at 10:45 and deposited him on to the coach; that signally the end of our involvement until 11;50 that evening!

In the rugby community the people are represented by two groups, The Teams and The Supporters, these are their stories – actually this is one (Nat) supporter’s story.

The Dramatis Personae

Nat (Son, Brother and all-round…………..insert as applicable), Neil + (Son Ben) Connor + (Dad Paddy), Luke +(Dad), Brandon + (Mum and Dad - Paula, Mark ) Ollie + (Dad, Brother),

The coach left at 11, I was sitting at the back with Laurie.  I ate crisps and jelly squares ; the jelly was Ordi’s and the crisps were mine. We stopped at the services about 2 hours later . The thing about services [and I do love them] is that they are really too expensive!!! So we just had a quick look around and got back onto the coach; Twickenham next stop.

On the motorway we passed some gypsies – I took a photo of them just in case – everyone else jeered at them out of the windows – I hope they were gypos and not some poor family on their way on holiday. We passed Heathrow airport – could see the planes taking off.Arriving at Twickenham – coach parked next to the stadium by the Harlequins ground. In the car park they was a stall selling large pork baps with stuffing and crackling – The club paid for them MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM PORK COB!!!!!!!!
 

We arrived and parked the coach after which we crossed a bridge and there we were... Twickenham National Stadium; outside the Stadium there was a rugby fair – I did an amazing line out throw even with a broken arm.  I threw and got the ball through the 25 point hole despite the fact that it had a tyre in front of it. After this we got our faces painted by Hazel – with red, green and white stripes, Tigers colours - and entered the Stadium..

We went to find our seats – Cameron was on my right and Luke on my left.  The tigers mascot ( a tiger naturally) had a fight with the two Saracens mascots which were dogs!!! The tiger won – but of course.  As the teams came onto the pitch there were fireworks -  let the game begin.

At half time – tigers leading – I texted Jacob to see where he was – he was behind the tigers posts which was about to become the Saracens posts.  On the pitch there was a tag match between some primary schools – lucky buggers.

A fantastic match – tigers won with a last minute try and conversion. -

After the match it was straight back to the coach and we were back on our way home.



the return trip

services

return part 2

vipers at last

29 August - The Highcross Pub with Donna's Dad

I was in Town today and after I'd taken Nat to, and left him, at, the GamesWorkshop I went for a wander round town before ending up and spending too much time in the Apple Store playing with iPods and iPhones and iMacs (anyone notice a pattern). Before that I's watched the "Indian" musicians playing at the Clock Tower in the city centre. After I'd had my fill of tech I retired to the The High Cross (a J D Wetherspoons, and therefore cheap, pub) for a couple or three pints before picking Nat up at 5:00. As always the pub was pretty busy so, when I eventually got served, I bought two pints, Ruddles County, if I recall correctly, found myself a seat and settled down with my pint and a book to pass a pleasant afternoon.
A little while later I spotted John, Donna's dad and as deaf as a post, sitting at one of the tables and moved to join him. He was chatting with a fellow Geordie also called John (2) and I joined them for the rest of my time there. Great fun except that John 1 can't hear a thing you say so you always end up talking at cross purposes...which, anyway, was all part of the fun!

Donna's dad is the one on the left without the glasses. Here are the other photos I took that day: