Is it a bird, is it a plane...

This is a confusing time of year for root vegetables. Last week it was Burns night which brings with it the debate of whether the vegetable that you eat with the Haggis is a turnip (neep), as it is known in Scotland, or a swede as it is called in England. Whilst shopping last week here in Texas I found that the confusion doesn't end there. The poor vegetable can also be know as a Rutabaga!

An experience I don't wish to repeat

Last Saturday, I didn't drink a single beer after playing rugby in Houston. It wasn't really deliberate, just an unfortunate turn of events. I don't plan on it happening again. I had a terrible night's sleep tossing and turning with my aches and pains. And what's worse, I still felt hungover on Sunday anyway!

Austin Texas Baby!

In the words of the Texas quarterback the national college football trophy is coming 'all the way to ow-stin Texas Baby!'. Last week the University of Texas won the college football national title. It was an amazing game that went right to the final whistle and would have had you on the edge of your seat no matter what sport you like. Because of that game I've now learned about the NFL draft whereby all the best players from the team will now get snapped up by the professional teams in some kind of weird lottery where the worst team gets first pick. In fact, some professional teams were trying not to win anymore games so that they would get the best pick of the amateur players for next season. All seems a bit weird to me, but then so does millions of people watching a university sports team. The picture above is of the tower on the university campus. I joined hundreds of other people on Sunday night to get a shot of the tower lit up like this. The whole town has gone crazy. 2000 commemorative t-shirts were sold within a few hours of the game finishing and the students are not even in town right now!

Xylophone Man

I was saddened to hear today that Xylophone Man passed away back in 2004. Some nice tributes and an amusing interview with the man himself can be seen here though.