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Bangor bash Barban boys
by Roger Corbett
On a perfect afternoon for rugby, Bangor maintained their good winning streak by recording another bonus point victory against Dromore, eventually winning by 38-17.
With Bangor and Dromore looking secure in 3rd and 4th places respectively in the league, this game could have been viewed as a dead fixture. However, with Dromore no doubt wanting to reverse their earlier defeat, and Bangor wanting to maximise their points tally, the game was certainly competitive.
Bangor got proceedings underway, playing into a slight breeze that was blowing diagonally across the pitch. From the outset, Dromore used this slight advantage to gain good ground through well taken positional kicks. However, were equally happy to run the ball back and produced several good attacks in reply. In fact the home side could have been a couple of scores up in the first quarter, but the ball didn’t run for them at the crucial moments. However, the breakthrough eventually came when the handling across the backs was crisp and secure, giving Neil Cuthbertson on the right wing the opportunity to stretch his legs and dive over in the corner for a well-taken try. The difficult kick was missed, but the scoreboard had started in Bangor’s favour by 5-0.
The next twenty minutes were almost a copy of the first quarter, with Bangor making most of the attacking opportunities, only to be thwarted by a stubborn Dromore defence. For Dromore’s part, they also had their chances, and came close from a kick through that Cuthbertson managed to shepherd into the goal area and get the resulting twenty two drop-out. However, a slack response by Bangor handed the initiative back to Dromore who, after several surges, managed to push over for their first try in the right hand corner, levelling the scores at 5-5 with just a minute or two left in the first half.
Bangor’s reply from the restart was immediate and in complete contrast to how they approached the previous drop-out. Mark Thompson’s kick hung in the breeze, allowing Jamie Clegg to leap for it and continue running at the static Dromore defence. He then passed inside to Jason Morgan who then passed again to Mike Weir at outside centre. Although Weir had the option of Cuthbertson on the wing, he fooled the Dromore defence and made a charge for the line, just managing to squeeze over in the right hand corner. The conversion was missed, making the score 10-5.
With 2 minutes of stoppage time having elapsed, there was just enough time for Dromore to restart once more. However, another apparent lapse in concentration by Bangor in securing and then clearing the ball, allowed Dromore to come straight back and score an opportunist try in the corner and level the points at 10-10. As the referee blew for half time, the home supporters were stunned, feeling their side should have been well in front by this time.
As the teams turned around, Bangor produced their now familiar second half surge. Within 5 minutes, a good break by James Henly was stopped just inside the Dromore twenty two. Although the ball went to ground, good support play by Curtis Stewart saw him pick up and run through to score under the posts. Cuthbertson’s kick was good, and Bangor were back in front by 17-10.
An injury to full back Chris Morgan resulted in changes to both the forward and backs line-up, with Adam Rushe coming off the bench to take James Henly’s wing forward position, allowing Henly to move to outside centre, and moving Mike Weir to full back as a result. There followed a brief period of settling to this new structure, before Bangor struck again. Seeing a flat Dromore defence ahead of him, Jason Morgan chipped over their heads and began the chase for the line. The ball bounced favourably for him, and he just managed to gather and touch down ahead of the nearest defender. The kick was successful extending the lead to 24-10, and now with the additional bonus point.
Although Dromore maintained their own pressure, it was Bangor who were calling most of the shots. Just 7 minutes later, the ball went wide to Mark Widdowson on the left wing whose pace and footwork left several Dromore players floundering, before darting through to score under the posts. The addition of the simple conversion brought the score to 31-10.
With only 5 minutes remaining, Dromore produced a late push and brought play deep into Bangor’s twenty two. Although Dromore won their scrum close to Bangor’s line, it looked like Bangor had the attack covered. However a defensive mix-up left a gap that provided a simple run through for Dromore to score beside the posts. With the successful conversion, the gap had closed to 31-17.
Obviously annoyed by this mistake, Bangor came back at Dromore, forcing the visitors to concede a penalty inside their twenty two. Spurning the kick at goal, Thompson kicked for touch and an attacking line-out. With the ball safely won, Bangor started to drive forward, but the strong Dromore pack held it up. However, the ball was quickly recycled by Ricky Armstrong to Mark Thompson, who then passed to Jason Morgan who pushed off his tackler to score the final try of the day and, with the conversion, bring the final score to 38-17.
This was a good day for North Down sides playing Mid Down opposition. Bangor’s success against Dromore was matched by neighbours Donaghadee who produced an inspired performance to beat Ballynahinch 2nds and earn a place in this year’s Towns Cup final as a result – congratulations to all.
Bangor’s final fixture in this year’s league is away to Cooke next Saturday. The weekend is then topped off on Sunday afternoon with what should be a highly entertaining game between the Perennials and a Bangor Select XV. With several familiar faces from seasons past, this is sure to be a fun event, and one to come along and enjoy.
Bangor side: P Whyte, A Jackson, B Worthington (S Irvine), R Corbett, C Stewart , R Latimer, J Henly, J Clegg (c), R Armstrong, M Thompson, M Widdowson, J Morgan, M Weir, N Cuthbertson, C Morgan (A Rushe)
Subs: S Irvine, A Rushe
Bangor scores: N Cuthbertson (1T, 4C), M Weir (1T), C Stewart (1T), J Morgan (2T), M Widdowson (1T)
Securing of Polish built project cargo on the deck of the m/v Frida Scan.
The equipment, built by RTA Alesa Ltd (Rio Tinto), is destined for the modernization of the Alcan plant at Kitimat (BC), Canada.
Corporal Saad Manzoor, a member of 36 Signal Regiment, secures an antenna during Ex STEEL TITAN 17 held at Camp Aldershot on 21 January 2017.
36 Canadian Brigade Group (36 CBG) conducted Ex STEEL TITAN 17 which included combat procedures in a Contemporary Operational Environment and military manoeuvres in Aldershot, Nova Scotia from 20-22 Jan 2017.
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Photo credit: Sgt Robert LeBlanc, 5th Cdn Div Public Affairs
CAF Imagery Number: AX01-2017-0002-25
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Tree Surgery.
If you have ever watched someone do this,it is very interesting.They take the tree down in bits...This one was just being topped.
Almost all of the snow is gone, it has been a wonderful February so far.
(Stomper in the backround!)
Susmita Mohanty, Chief Executive Officer, Earth2Orbit Consulting, India captured during the Session:"Water-Secure India" at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Visualisations at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Faruk Pinjo
Our gorgeous Gaga: January 17, 2013-July 7, 2014.
Here's a picture of her as a baby when we first got her.
And here is a sweet video of her doing a trick, not dead in a muddy hole in the backyard. (We now have Ranja, Mila, Paku, Inga, Kamaka, Pihikete, and Aranga sleeping in that leafy back corner--future archeologists [and gardeneres] will be baffled.)
Though she was still quite young (though not insanely young--females are said to live about 18 to 24 months on average), she developed a slow-growing tumour on her left side; she didn't lose weight or show any sign of distress or tiredness, so we didn't have to do anything about until she unfortunately rubbed it open. It wasn't able to heal because of contact with the cage bars, and keeping her in a box away from her friends would have been far worse than death. It was quite big already anyway, so we had to put our ridiculously playful, loving girl to sleep.
As she was going down, she reached out her paws to pull my face down to lick my nose and cheeks, purring in Jules' lap. As we blubbered over her, she reached out groggily with her eyes barely open and took his finger in both paws, pulling it close to just give it a couple of weak licks.
God, she was the sweetest girl--so utterly loving and cuddly. I used to hold her in my hands, and she'd lie on her back and reach up with both paws to pat them against my face, licking me and purring away, or she'd flop down with her chin up in the crook of my elbow and snooze as I stroked her head. She'd run in circles on the sofa, chasing our hands, or leap on and off the back. We miss her.
TransLink is adding much needed secure bicycle parking to older rapid transit stations as they are upgraded.
This one (at Main Street - Science World SkyTrain station) is the first one in Vancouver, and doesn't get much use as it's disconnected from the bike network -- there's no great way to cycle there! I suspect the next ones will be a lot busier.
this took a lot more work than needed, the second time I did it, I pulled the wire and string through the square hole and then it was easier stringing a wire from the round hole to the square hole to fetch the string through the tiny round hole again...
and voila! Pips again!
Replacing the pullstring on Kendall the wonderful Kenner...
it was a successful operation, Kendall came through with flying colours!
she can't wait to see Mum! She misses you already!
this is using the tutorial from "Mo" on TIB...
This huge stone ring is imbedded into the city wall of Dubrovnik, Croatia. It was used to secure ships from floating away from the dock.
Amitabh Kant, Chief Executive Officer, NITI Aayog, India captured during the Session:"Water-Secure India" at the India Economic Summit 2017 in New Delhi, India, Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
CAMP TWIN LAKES, Winder, Ga., April 22, 2015 - Local emergency management personnel strap a Georgia National Guard crew member to a gurney in preparation to be air lifted during the inter-agency training exercise in Winder, Ga.
(Georgia Department of Defense photo by Desiree Bamba / released)
Launchpad: Climate Resilience through Sweet Potatoes (CReSP) To secure nutrition when droughts and floods threaten lives and livelihoods, the International Potato Center is launching the Climate Resilience through Sweet Potatoes (CReSP) initiative, which builds upon pioneering research on orange-fleshed sweet potato breeding and delivery to vulnerable populations in Africa. Global Landscapes Forum, Marrakech, Morocco.
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A select group of volunteers [the person who selected them has since be reprimanded for gross negligence – his defence being there was nowhere near a gross and none of them were wearing negligencies!], gathered around Mr T. However Mr T did not feel threatened. He had his minder, a hulking brute of a man, [did I say man? Was Dr. Frankenstein’s monster a man?], standing watching his back. Everyone felt relieved. (!) It was when it was watching your back that you needed to be frightened! Anyway, to continue:
Mr T: “We’re not planting trees over by the MoD fence line any longer.”
The Voles enthusiasm knew no bounds and spilled out making a nasty mess of the car park. The couple of Dave’s [the only one’s of their clan to be present] began doing an Irish jig in the style that only the English can accomplish to Olympic standard. This resembles two drunks on a Friday night attempting to swap trousers while eating a chicken vindaloo!
Mr T had lulled them and now applied the ‘cut the grass’ [I believe it sounds better in French but I’m not into that foreign fancy stuff, let them learn English like we had to, that’s what I say].
Mr T: “Instead we’ll be planting trees down near the other end of the Upper Alders.”
The jiggers froze – it was their fault for being so quick in removing certain essential items of apparel. Wendy, remembering her classes from Finishing Off School, swooned and fell to ground, [fortunately she didn’t have far to go]. The Brute picked her up and tossed her into the back of my car, [no-one takes Jock’s seat even the Brute knew that].
Mr T: “Squire, you drive while I rest on my laurels.”
Brute: “But I thought we were planting alders?”
Mr T: “Just drive.”
It was a mizzly, drizzly day so I had brought along my gazebo to keep us dry when we had our break. [The Brute liked to break things (and people)]. Soon Dave C. and I were well on the way to completing its construction. However after ten minutes we decide more help was needed. After a further ten minutes and the help of Roger we decided more help was needed. After a further ten minutes and the help of Dave M. We decided more help was needed. After a further ten minutes it had stopped raining and the wind was taking the gazebo across the field with Wendy firmly attached to one of the legs. Finally, by tying Roger’s bike to the opposite leg that Wendy was secured to, the gazebo looked like a grade two listing building – yes that bad.
The tree planting went along the usual lines, trees two metres apart (give or take a metre) in one direction and two metres apart (give or take a metre) in the other, whilst in the main being perpendicular to the horizontal. This of course does not allow for the inbuilt variations based upon wind direction, proximity to the tin of biscuits, phase of the moon and attitude of the Vole in question. However Mr T did note one Vole was being a little too precise in being precise rather than not being precise, if you take my drift. [Please note the last person who took my drift has still to return it!].
Mr T: “Excuse me ‘The Moff’, you don’t need to be exact in spacing the trees.”
The Moff, (tucking his collapsible digital theodolite into his pocket). “I’m not. I’m at least 0.056 millimetres about the norm.” [Norman looked concerned but not surprised by this revelation].
Mr T: “That’s alright then. For a moment I thought you were being too meticulous.” [How can you be ‘too’ meticulous? A meticulous person would ensure they weren’t too meticulous otherwise they’d fail to be meticulous.
The Moff: “No, I’m being very careful not to be too meticulous.” [You don’t catch The Moff out that easily].
Mr T also noted that Wendy appeared to be dozing off for a few minutes every time she put the guards on the trees and canes.
Mr T: “Wendy, are we keeping you up?”
Wen: “No, I’m using my belly, [The word used by Wendy was ‘stomach’ but I can’t spell ‘stomach’ so I’m using ‘belly’ instead – apologies to the squeamish], to pile drive the canes into the ground another foot or so.”
Mr T: “Doesn’t that hurt?”
Wen: “No, I’m sure the canes don’t feel a thing.”
Later that day, have planted the allotted area, the footpath, the ditch and the river (but only to wadeable height, ensuring the bamboo canes protruded above the waterline).
The Moff: “Hey I’ve got a great idea. Let’s go an finish planting the other area with all these trees that are left.”
The enthusiasm of the Voles knew no bounds yet again spilling everywhere and leaving a nasty mess. [Is there a nice mess? Well yes, often people tell me I’ve left them in a nice mess.]
The Brute, having secured the less enthusiastic Voles in the trailer set off across country to our new destination.
Mr T called him back: “Squire, you’re supposed to take the land rover and trailer with you!”
This was easier said than done, the vehicle and trailer now being surrounded by several hundred trees! However by carefully ignoring them, brute force overcame such difficulties, [actually the word is ‘overran’].
And so dear reader onto our second site and second task of the day. To cut a long email short reread the first section ignoring the bits about the gazebo, footpath, ditch and river.
Yet another ‘And so’ as we come to the end of the Sandy Smith Nature Reserve Tree Planting Saga. This will no doubt go down in the annuls of history as further proof of something. But what the something is will only be decide by the future that will rewrite the past to fit into its own present. That’s the paradox called Time for you.
The End, or the beginning, or the continuation.
Once more thanks go to The Venerable Buxton, ably assisted by The Lady Buxton for another scrum-delicious hotpot and gallons of tea made as only the tea plantations of Yorkshire know how. Why we bother importing tea from other countries is beyond me. Just think of the carbon footprints we could save muddying Mother Earth’s green carpet as some ex vice president once said having lost an election just because a few thousand voting papers had accidently been recorded as preferring him to some other noteworthy bloke whose name thankfully escapes me. Anyway he made money out of it so that’s alright.
For those of you that missed it, you don’t know what you’ve missed and having read this you still don’t. I never understand people who say you don’t know what you’ve missed and then proceed to tell you what you’ve missed, so you do know what you’ve missed when you probably didn’t miss it in the first place, which is why you missed it. [If you know what I mean].
By the way ‘Brute’, you know I don’t mean it and I used to love splashing you on all over when I was young and it’s great that you’re making a comeback, even if it is only at Christmas. [Whereas you, (The Squire you), make a comeback every time you go away].
Another End,
Malcolm.
PS Certain people say it helps to have a few drinks when reading my emails. The alcohol doesn’t help the brain deduce more but it does ensure that when you wake up the screen has gone blank so you can switch it off and go to bed thinking you’ve read it all. “Alcohol is the great leveller” said Earnest Hemmingway as he fell off his bar stool for the umpteenth time. Ernie’s favourite drink was probably a dry martini rather than the Mojito or even Bloody Mary. My favourite drink is one bought by someone else.
That’s all folks.
An eclectic mix of items has been loaded for our journey. I've included my Brompton folding bicycle as it takes up so little space in the rear of the van. We are visiting a country well known for its cycling, so who could resist taking the little Brompton?
We took the same amount of items as last year, but it seems more packed. Studying the photos from last years we realise that this van is a longer version.
A work of art in the new museum in Rotterdam 'Fenix', which shows that the more you live behind a secure fence, the more you become locked up.
The objective of the work is to show that despite the dangers of maintaining financial security, freedom of commerce is still possible.
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Artist: Randy South
Occasionally I will just add a photo in order to mark it on my Map, this is one of those occasions. I had such high hopes for this site when i spotted it in Google Maps months ago. When I took a trip out there this is what I found. 90% of the site had been demolished and what was left was heavy fortified with Razor Wire. WTF! razor wire?! come on what the hell could possibly be inside this place. Maybe its of historical value? or maybe the site is heavily contaminated. I don't know about you but I think its ridiculous. California really love their fences. Located in Benicia, California.