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...and you never wore Cologne.

York City

Same stripe design as the new Germany top. Reckon Scotland are due one like this too? Not this colour though, with Georgia away coming up!

Ah right, cool. Very tasty despite its strength which is both good and a little dangerous. Often find it on their 4 for £6 deals too.

Don't know if they still do it, but Inveralmond's Homecoming Scotland ale is lovely. I'm also quite partial to Brewdog's Hardcore IPA, under it's cheaper guise of Tesco Finest American Double IPA. Theakston's Distiller's Cask is also a very good shout: "Theakston's finest Masham ale, warmly acquainted with the flavours of Speyside malt whisky." Not sure if they're technically craft beers, but well worth a try.

Barry Douglas perhaps, admittedly seen very little of him but have heard he's playing well for Lech Poznan.

lost 3-2 to Brazil in the second group game though (our team is Higgins and Maguire, by the way)

Meanwhile in the Snooker World Cup, Scotland won their first group game 4-1 against Iran.

One stat which is particularly good going into the remaining games, is that we've scored in each of our qualifiers so far. If we can keep that going, and be solid defensively, then we're laughing.

Bit of a drizzly morning in Hull for the 10k today, but got round in 43:09, happy with that time, and the course was quite nice too.

Norway at home, might've distracted Iwelumo enough for him to mis-kick it goalwards.

York parkrun is off this weekend, due to the horses on the racecourse. Think I might check the Temple Newsam one one before the Hull 10K on Sunday.

We found a bee, trapped it in a bottle and blew the smoke from our joints into the bottle. Staggered about for ages once we let it out.

well the last three lines are a Haiku.

Heat is one of the worst things. Sun was bearing down for most of the Prague marathon this year, I was so ill after I'd crossed the finish line. New PB though, seems as though post-Edinburgh recovery is going well.

"stumble" eh?

Did a couple of 10k runs on holiday in N. Cyprus, an easier one out towards the coast and back and a much tougher one out towards the Kyrenia mountain range and back. Both were very rewarding and the heat conditions along with the undulating hills should make the 'home' races seem easier.

I'd already planned a trip up to see my mate in Glasgow this weekend, a journey which always goes via Edinburgh. It was only because that and the fixture date coincided that I decided to go.

Just come back from a 6+ hour flight from North Cyprus, on a cramped 737-400, legroom was bad as it was, thankfully the person in front didn't recline - didn't see many passengers reclining at all to be fair.

Germany doing something different with the Adidas stripes.

Seems to be the case with a lot of currencies compared to the pound. Was getting close to 40 CZK for Prague last month, compared to the sub-30 it was when we played the 4-6-0 there. Turkish Lira for my next holiday is looking good too, over 4 to the £ if I change it out there.

not quite as bad as the increasingly common 'seat for their bag' approach so many people seem to think they're entitled to. Edit: I see I'm not alone with this one

or factor it into the weight allowance of the baggage, it all contributes to the load on the aircraft. If I weigh less than them, give me more allowance for my luggage than they have

I got mine made by John Morrison kiltmakers, based in Edinburgh: 63 High Street, Edinburgh, Old Town EH1 1SR Was a complete custom job, as it wasn't a common tartan (Kirk) and the end result was very, very nice.

if there's an empty seat behind me, I recline. If there's someone there, I'll ask if they mind me reclining. It's not as if the seats go all that far back anyway so it's not going to bother me if I'm not reclining.