Rugby

One of the adverse effects of having to go to Glasgow on Thursday was that I had to give away my tickets for the rugby today, as I wasn't sure I could get back in time for my flight and, for various reasons, I couldn't stay away until Sunday.

As you know it is not permitted to resell the rugby tickets, so I had to sell the hotel bed and flight and throw in the tickets as a bonus. Now knowing that I could have made it, I'm jealous of my "guest" who is presumably now having a liquid lunch with his friends from the Stornoway rugby club in some hostelry in Rose Street.

I am going to sit down an watch the game - it's not quite the same, but it's the best I'm going to get, and hope that Scotland can surprise us all.

Next year we are going to get to Dublin, somehow, for the game!