Neil Pferd

There's absolutely no way doing this would come back to haunt me.

This fire seems quite unusual for Glasgow, in that the building actually went through a complicated, expensive, renovation before going up in flames, rather than the other way around.

This the same Carré or does he have a brother?

I’d be surprised of most of them have watched any sort of rugby since 2003.

Honestly, I prefer a good sin carne. Sauce holds together much better, for a start.

Can we also talk about the absurdity of the names specifying both sin and con carne versions? Surely there should be one version from which the others derive?!

Two fridge magnets sit on top of an orange and white napkin. They have a cute drawing of the Humber Bridge. There’s text around it that says, “It’s never dull in Hull.”

My bribe to the #MiniPferds to keep them from complaining too much when I’m away from home is a fridge magnet from every city. I kind of love the idea of Hull now sitting in their imagination alongside cities like New York, Barcelona, DC and Geneva as far flung and exciting places to go.

Ah, fuckin’ hell. That’s the rest of the year ruined, that it!

The lack of holidays in lieu is one of the worst things I can imagine. Awful stuff.

Anyway, congratulations to you all. Hope she had a wonderful celebration. Long may she never see Wales win… 😉

A road sign that seemingly incomprehensibly says, “Old English Gentlemen Open as Usual.”

On a weekend away with some old uni friends and boy, have I missed a day of rugby, eh? On the plus side, we found this road sign that gave me a chuckle.

I’d say this is good enough if you’re adults only and are moving at adult speed. Schiphol is just about the best I’ve been through for transfers. Made tighter connections than this, there.

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Of late, I've tended to prefer the off-brand supermarket versions.

Actually Beamish in them glasses?

Actually Murphys in the glasses?

He's perfectly in focus to me, Steve. You might want to get down to your local optician sharpish!

You forgot the part where they're crawling with germs from contact with all those other children with germs in school / kindergarten...

Anyway, all of tThis is exactly why I bought a giant, heavy, water bottle that they couldn't hold at their lips long enough to extract liquid!

I have no idea what we've done to that teachers but I suspect it must have been really, really terrible 😞

Is she’s on the Seamus Kennedy version, I’ll be checking into a B&B…

#BabyPferd: "Our music teacher is teaching us an Irish song for St. Patrick's Day."

Me: "Oh great. Why don't you sing it?

#BabyPferd: "🎶Oh ro the rattlin' bog...🎶"

Readers: it's 25 minutes on and she's got up to the bird in the nest and if she knows about the egg in the bird I'm gonna lose it.

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Me, utterly hating every aspect of the construct of the “big” Belfast schools yet being thoroughly addicted to the late stages of the Ulster Schools Cup in which the three of them are near-permanent fixtures:

Didn't like the Ulster players' performance keeping chat about the Munstermen down, eh?

My congratulations to the happy couple! 😉

And don't worry, I'll be in England on Friday and probably offline for the most part, so only so much trouble I can get into. You'll have your peace!

Moi?!

Yep, and a lad who bought into it for a while, too, by the looks of things, so really hope the player we've seen this season is the "real" version!

I'd say a part is that Pienaar, and to some extent Cooney, arrived as fairly finished articles, while we've had the very non-linear development of a young guy in Doak but I think at times, his body language and attitude, both of which were poor and out of sync with efforts on the pitch, helped.

Ahhh, Nic, what could possibly go wrong? 🫥

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The Welsh lying low all week. Now we've got interprovincial love and harmony. This is turning out to be the most uneventful #IrelandWeek ever.

Delighted for Richie. Last season was awful. What he's done with his own team in place says everything. So many at Ulster having their best seasons in ages.

That said, I wasn't optimistic that there was something brewing at the end of last season (although Richie was not the focus of my ire).

Tom has always had talent but he looks, physically, athletically and performance, a totally different beast this season. Excited to see how he goes!

He'll get a meme when this starts translating into central contracts!

I'm intrigued to see how he goes at international level. He's had such a step up in performance this season. Speed and accuracy of distribution included. Some work ons for sure but if his Ulster form this season translates upwards, he won't look out of place I don't think.