Sunderland 3 - 10 H-Ton

Sunderland suffered a heavy defeat to the hands of a rampant team from H-tonia. An early period of stalemate with teams at 4-a-side was broken by a scrambled goal from Mr Sprout. SWA soon joined the game playing for the Sunderland team. More players turned up and we had ourselves a game - 7-a-side - Sunderland vs H-ton.
Early dominance by H-ton meant at the half time mark the score was 5-1 in their favour. Soon the weather changed and in some wet conditions H-ton extended their to 9-1 despite the best efforts of wonder keeper Gofton.
Sunderland then rallied themselves for a Teen-Wolf style comeback. They turned up their game and scored 2 well worked goals. However this was to no avail. A scramble in the Sunderland goal mouth resulted in a weak goal being scored and H-ton won the match.

A rematch is being scheduled for either Saturday 27th or Sunday 28th May.

Radio One's Big Weekend 2006 - Dundee

Well its been a week since I was there so I think its about time I posted something about it.

Anyway, I managed to get a pair of tickets for the Radio One's Big Weekend for the Saturday.
We set off at 7.30am for the 4 hour trip to Dundee.

Here's a pointless picture of the Forth Bridge to show we crossed it


So we got there about 12 and dumped our stuff at a very nice B&B - Invermark


After an ill fated bus journey around Dundee (the driver lied about the bus route), we ended up getting a taxi from the local hospital (it was one of the stops, not that we ended up in hospital) to Camperdown Park


We got the beers in

... and settled in to watch all the acts.

Muse, Snow Patrol, Boy Kill Boy, Razorlight and Dirty Pretty things were all very good. Everyone else play good sets (even Gnarls Barkley).

So the gig ended and we went for more beer around Broughty Ferry - The Post Office and Jolly's



We think we had a good night....

The next morning we were up bright and early and headed down to the beach where we took these lovely photos



Then we set off home

On the way back we did call via Duns to see the castle as it's the venue for Dave's planned nuptials. Its very nice as you can see.

Double Troutmaster

Well, he's done it again.
Troutmaster again.
Come on Paul... give someone else a chance

Harton Hotshots

Just a quick note that I'm helping out on another bog site.
Its for a local junior football team - Harton Hotshots.

If you're interested, you can check it out at www.hartonhotshots.blogspot.com

It will also have its own permanent space in the links menu.