The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

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Welcome to the virtual rugby pub - a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no defacing the Tommy Bowe photo on the bar. That's a banning offence

So pull up a chair....what'll it be?

Cymroglan wrote:I tell you what would be fun, I have a few acres of land near a lovely beach on Anglesey ideal location for a 606v2 BBQ next year.
And the following year have it at another location.

You can count me in for that! I've only been up north once, but I loved it. Stunning up there

Mick(TEFC) wrote:Anglesea is great,or was 45 years ago;just one problem-you have to know which date summer falls on :run1:

Bit like the rest of Britain then!

Cari wrote:

Mick(TEFC) wrote:Anglesea is great,or was 45 years ago;just one problem-you have to know which date summer falls on :run1:

Bit like the rest of Britain then!

Except Scotland, where it occurs for about 30 minutes.

Cymro,
What's for breakfast darlin?

Either way. I'm in.

I know my way to Holyhead. Asleep and in the dark.

I'm in Treaddur Bay four miles from Holyead,,,Breakfast will be fresh local kippers washed down with a beverage of your choice.

Ok man. It sounds majestic.

I fully expect Wisgi though.

Penfro did it.

Such a whiskEy nationalist that fella. Like meself.

Cymru ar byth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ

Gibson wrote:Ok man. It sounds majestic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfEoVxy7VDQ

Not a bad song. Much prefer the album version.

And in other news, my hotel room stinks. Not sure if it's related to the noodles and belly pork at dinner time....

Sorry, I was with some pals back there.

As - there hasn't been much for me to comment on in here. Just the nature of the closure of the domestic season up here I guess. Plus the ping-pong in SW19, which I don't really care for.

Cari, I can't believe you've not been to North Wales. I had some great times there when I was younger; mountain walking, rock climbing, abseiling etc. And when you walk into a pub, they all start talking Welsh

The fact that they were probably speaking Welsh in the first place didn't occur to my pals when we walked into a pub in Garndolbenmaen (I think that was the place).


I was talking to Penfro about that one in the Vulcan the other weekend.

Hound.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaGNAL_u-SU

nice one gibbo.

Laters. Slaap lekker bud.

Morning all,



http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/
http://www.irishtimes.com/sports/rugby/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport?mobile-redirect=false
http://sport.scotsman.com/rugby
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/rugbynation/
http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/rugby

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=80
http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union

And as requested on a Wednesday by rava

http://www.ballymoneytimes.co.uk/

Morning all

How are we all doing? Back the dentist today. That does not make me happy.

Morning All,
Weather's chilled here,lost 12/13 degrees,down to a reasonable 24 at 8.00am

Now that Stade F are safe,you can start planning your Amlin visits,if only the ERC decides to set the match fixtures.

Am I a rarity in not being in the least bit worried about going to the dentist;things can only get better

Ye chef I'm getting better going back now a days. Just had a bad experience years ago that hangs in my head

Bore da / good morning all.

Chef, I've never been bothered about going to the dentist either. It can be great if they give you that magic gas!

Sounds good, Cymro. My dad's a Gog and I've been there plenty of times visiting relatives in Llangefni. I remember going to the beach at Benllech when I was younger - just beautiful

Morning All

for Micky T heading to the toof mechanic. Make sure they give you a sticker afterwards!

Hound - it's a bit mad really isn't it? I've lived in Wales all my life and I've never been further North than Aberystwyth! I was looking at going to Bangor University once too but went elsewhere to do a different course.

mickyt wrote:Ye chef I'm getting better going back now a days. Just had a bad experience years ago that hangs in my head

I can totally relate to that. When I was ten I got my front teeth smashed in and had to have crowns fitted. This was back when we had cheap NHS dentistry...all I remember is the nurse trying to hold my arms and legs down cause I was thrashing about and screaming. Anyway, I didn't bother going to the dentist for years afterwards but then as an adult I had to have a root filling. I explained to the dentist my previous bad experience and he was great. I've been regularly going back ever since. I had my crowns re-done last year and that was still a horrendous experience but at least I wasn't thrashing about screaming.

Sorry folks, can't read any dentist horror stories, they terrify me enough!

of tae for me please and thanks.

Cari, you've got PM!

Mickado wrote:Sorry folks, can't read any dentist horror stories, they terrify me enough!

of tae for me please and thanks.

Cari, you've got PM!

Cheers Mick...just about to reply.

Sorry if I put off anyone with the scary dentistry...honestly it's brilliant, I was just trying to say that it does get better and most dentists are very sympathetic....

Bore da pawb (Good Morning all) - &

Reading back, a BBQ on Ynys Môn (or Ynys Moan as blydi Glenys “I’m still really a socialist but live in the Vale now” Kinnock calls it) would be brilliant
http://www.anglesey.info/trearddurbay.htm
http://www.anglesey-hidden-gem.com/Trearddur-Bay.html

we can call in here on the way and get ‘ Lurved up ’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanddwyn
http://www.welshicons.org.uk/html/ynys_llanddwyn.php

MICKYT – I think I’m like you. I had a really bad experience at the dentist when I was a kid, took me 30+ years to get over it. Don’t really worry now that I’ve founda great dentist. When I first went there I had to be sedated and get someboy to take me home after. Now, I don’t even think about iit

Ye we can stop talking about the dentist alright.

weather ain't as nice this morning as it has been.. Think we are expecting some rainy times today.

Morning all/Bore da pawb!

Hope everyone's well today

I'm in a proper good mood, couldn't tell you why, but I'm on phone's today so it may not last long

I don't mind the dentist, had the same one until I was 18 and he retired who was awesome. Not that big a fan of my new dentist but still he's okay. Think I'm just lucky I haven't had to have too much done, just some teeth out before I had braces, and that's it

I went to Llanddwyn Island last summer. Stunning.

Have any of you fellas had a wee in here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Celyn

I went to stay up by Llyn Tegid when I was 15 for a geography trip at school, and we did some walking up part of Snowdon. Just absolutely stunning, took some great pics but then my camera broke and I lost all of them, was gutted bout that would love to go back up there.

Was that at Glan-Llyn, Dreamer? I went there a few times with school. It's cool that there's a species of fish in Llyn Tegid that isn't found anywhere else in the world.

Kia ora, mauri ora all.

Dentists aren't all bad. Though a girlfriend back home got a job as a dental hygenist at my dentist. I thought it prudent to change dentists when we broke up

ah yes that was it Lucky, couldn't remember what the place we stayed at was actually called! I really enjoyed it up there but we couldn't actually go and do anything near the lake coz they had some weird algae growing on it that they were researching. Bit of a shame that.

Kiwireddevil wrote:Kia ora, mauri ora all.

Dentists aren't all bad. Though a girlfriend back home got a job as a dental hygenist at my dentist. I thought it prudent to change dentists when we broke up

Chicken!

Kiwi - ha yeah that was probably a good idea!

I went to the Pendine School Camp when I was about 10 which was horrendous - not the surroundings, just the camp itself. They used to do trips to Llangranog when I was at secondary school but I never went on those.

I spent many a happy holiday in Snowdonia;used to camp with my parents near Criccieth,and have promised my better half a vacation in North Wales in the near future

I went to Llangranog with school and it was alright, but Glan-Llyn was better, I thought.

I've just bought (or started to buy) my season ticket for the Dragons for next season. Rhino had mentioned that you could split your payment over three installments, and wouldn't you know it, he was right! So after 19th August the ticket's mine!

That's a good way of doing it Lucky. Excellent.

Morning all; just read that Glaws aren't signing any more players at the moment meaning we only have on specialist full back in Olly Morgan, I know Burns/Voyce/Taylor/Sharples have played there but would rather we'd brought one in. Apparently we were after the Canadian fullback who used to be at Hartpury but his wages were too steep :/

Hope all are ok on this lovely day, i'm regretting the kebab from last night, especially mixed with the morning run!

It's really handy, Cari, and I'm not paying any extra by splitting the payments.

I've only ever had half a kebab in my life. I wasn't impressed with it. Good gig though, Prop?

Prop, the squad appears so limited to me.

Lucky: it was really good, making me want to go back into a band too!

Stag: I reckon we'll be able to hold our own, so long as Kingsholm remains a fortress. This could be classed by Redpath as a transitional year and blood our new breed of homegrown talent: Trinder, Sharples, May, Mills, Robson, Knight, Thomas, Britton, Savage, Lewis (injury free). If they don't go to the w.c add in JSD, ESF and the experience of Morgan, Narraway, Buxton, Hazell, Q'era and I'm not too worried.

I played bass in a three-piece band many moons ago (that's not the name of the band). It was great fun.

Never had you pegged as a bass player Lucky. Not boring enough!

Sax and a 'learner' of mandolin for me, tried singing too!

The_Hound_of_Harrow wrote:Cari, I can't believe you've not been to North Wales. I had some great times there when I was younger; mountain walking, rock climbing, abseiling etc. And when you walk into a pub, they all start talking Welsh

+ 1 Llanberis pass must be one of the most beautiful places in the british isles. The whole area around snowdon is stunning.

Bass is where it's at, Mickado. Ties it all together. I can play drums too and the advantage there is that you get to sit down!

I had my first kebab at Zaytoons in Dublin in January. Only a chicken one it was. Nice it was too, but there was loads of it and i couldn't eat it all

Mickado - my brother's a bass player, and he's certainly not boring - plays in a metal band though. There have been some less boring bass players (Nicky Wire, Paul Simmonon) but yeah, Adam Clayton....great bassist though.

Just been dealing with a very nasty customer today aptly named . . . Cyril

Didn't know you were a sax man prop. Had a go of your mandolin though.

I play guitar only (boring!) but i've got a lovely 12 string, it's not a "different instrument" or anything, but it sounds lovely for certain songs.

Speaking of bass players, I'm reading Brian Wilson's autobiography. It's so sad.

Cofio Tryweryn !!!
Being in a mixed relationship (Hwntw&Gog) I get to travel 'up North' quite a bit. It is a stunning landscape, although obviously nowhere near as stunning as Sir Benfro/Pembrokeshire

However, getting there on the A470 is blydi awful if time is of the essence (It's a beautiful drive for 'Sunday Drivers' though )

red_stag wrote:Just been dealing with a very nasty customer today aptly named . . . Cyril

He's following you Staggy...you must've really pished him off! Awh...have a and relax for a bit.

Lucky - both my brothers were (are) drummers and I went out with a drummer once too.

Yeah I can remember you doing that Kado! Annoyingly you were already better than I was on it!!

Cari wrote:I had my first kebab at Zaytoons in Dublin in January. Only a chicken one it was. Nice it was too, but there was loads of it and i couldn't eat it all

Mickado - my brother's a bass player, and he's certainly not boring - plays in a metal band though. There have been some less boring bass players (Nicky Wire, Paul Simmonon) but yeah, Adam Clayton....great bassist though.

Zaytoon's is the king of kebabs, no make that the emperor!

My favourite spots in Wales are the stretch from Corwen thru Cynwyd, Llandrillo, Llandderfel to Bala - beautiful countryside - or the coast around St David's & St Bride's