Martin Veale - Steel and Survival

Personal musings, mutterings and rants on rugby and some other sports, life in Wales, family, beer, and anything else that springs to mind.

Friday, September 13, 2013

Random Stuff

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Parking Notes This is how not to park. The moron manages to take up 4 spaces with his idiot-mobile. Pic taken at Midway Retail Park in P...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Nature and Other Stuff

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Nature Notes   A few wonderful brushes with nature during our week away in west Wales. First, the ritual of sitting on the jetty at N...
Thursday, August 01, 2013

Holidays and Other Stuff

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Ava's Diary Nice week in Tresaith. It was sunny almost all week, so I spent most of it on the beach. Sandcastle-building, jumping wave...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Bruce and Other Stuff

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Concert Notes Bruuuuce! The Boss, Bruce Springsteen himself came to the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on Tuesday. Getting old, I opted f...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

It's Back

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Blog Notes By popular demand, it's back. I can't guarantee a weekly update, but I'll have something to say about rugby...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Cricket Notes

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The only good thing about being off work with tonsillitis is that The Ashes is on. My commentators XI... Boycott and Atherton to open Gower,...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Foodie Notes

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Now, this is how to write a restaurant review. Kudos to Pete Wells of the New York Times for applying to a well-deserved show to the ...
Saturday, October 06, 2012

Blog Notes

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World's worst directions A top blog here. This is what the tinterweb is for. Pointless but very funny takes on the useless and over...

Music Notes

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MTV. How do they manage to fill 100 music TV channels with just 6 songs. At any time of the day or night you surf up and down the music chan...

Baseball Notes

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Watching the baseball wildcard game between St Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves. Always thought that adding a second wildcard to eac...

Travel Notes

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The world needs to stop for a moment.  I reckon I've actually spent three full days at my normal office in the past month. As well as ...

NFL Notes

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Just a few weeks to go before the NFL comes to Britain. Yep, I've got my ticket for the New England Patriots game "at" the S...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Rugby Notes

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Top result last Saturday. Ebbw Vale beat Newbridge 37-7. It was a poor effort from Newbridge, the only team to do the double on Ebbw last ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Ava's Diary

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Told my first joke today. Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the moo-vies.
Monday, September 24, 2012

Rugby Notes

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Wasn't at last weekend's Ebbw Vale game, as the weather was too good to turn down a last fling of summer down in sunny West Wales....
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Martin Veale
Pontypridd, Wales, United Kingdom
Notes, musings and rants on sports, Wales, and any other stuff that interests/annoys me.
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