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So, what happened today?

I met up with a good friend of mine that I rarely see these days to see our hockey team play the second match of the playoff semi final against our rivals. On my way home now.

A sold out arena, which is rare, and our boys serve up the most spineless performance you can imagine. Puck loss in our own zone again and again, one of our supposed best defenders looking like Tramezzani on heroin. 5 min pen to one of their players, and then another 2 a min later, so we had almost 4 minutes 5 vs 3, yet no goal. We're the Spurs of Norwegian hockey, a laughing stock. Just like Spurs, we haven't won anything of note since 2008.

So 2-0 in games (best of 7 series), and we're pretty much out against a team that is simply levels better than us. fudge.

You do learn to lose following these teams. It was nice to see my friend though!
 
Daisuk said:
I met up with a good friend of mine that I rarely see these days to see our hockey team play the second match of the playoff semi final against our rivals. On my way home now.

A sold out arena, which is rare, and our boys serve up the most spineless performance you can imagine. Puck loss in our own zone again and again, one of our supposed best defenders looking like Tramezzani on heroin. 5 min pen to one of their players, and then another 2 a min later, so we had almost 4 minutes 5 vs 3, yet no goal. We're the Spurs of Norwegian hockey, a laughing stock. Just like Spurs, we haven't won anything of note since 2008.

So 2-0 in games (best of 7 series), and we're pretty much out against a team that is simply levels better than us. fudge.

You do learn to lose following these teams. It was nice to see my friend though!
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When you win it you will enjoy it even more.........some fudger told me that once but he was wrong. It is just endless sports misery because of the teams you follow.
 
Rorschach said:
When you win it you will enjoy it even more.........some fudger told me that once but he was wrong. It is just endless sports misery because of the teams you follow.
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Yeah, thankfully you get kind of sanded down by life as you get older and stop caring as much. My friend and I were discussing last night how few enjoyable things we have left in this world that isn't about some fudger wanting to make money off of you. The actual watching of what is going on at the pitch is one of them. But then you look up at any one point and it's buy this, buy that blah blah blah. Don't know where I'm going with this. Modern life sucks, haha.
 
Daisuk said:
I met up with a good friend of mine that I rarely see these days to see our hockey team play the second match of the playoff semi final against our rivals. On my way home now.

A sold out arena, which is rare, and our boys serve up the most spineless performance you can imagine. Puck loss in our own zone again and again, one of our supposed best defenders looking like Tramezzani on heroin. 5 min pen to one of their players, and then another 2 a min later, so we had almost 4 minutes 5 vs 3, yet no goal. We're the Spurs of Norwegian hockey, a laughing stock. Just like Spurs, we haven't won anything of note since 2008.

So 2-0 in games (best of 7 series), and we're pretty much out against a team that is simply levels better than us. fudge.

You do learn to lose following these teams. It was nice to see my friend though!
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Vålerenga i presume? They Always promise a great season, before it starts, never fail to disappoint 😂
 
@Daisuk - Do you follow Cricket? Your county team will be Somerset. Sorry about that.

But they have a strong side now and it is their 150th year but they have never won the county championship in all that time haha - enjoy.
 
johnola said:
@Daisuk - Do you follow Cricket? Your county team will be Somerset. Sorry about that.

But they have a strong side now and it is their 150th year but they have never won the county championship in all that time haha - enjoy.
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Tell me about it. I drag my Brian Langford jersey out of the cupboard every now and then and have a little sob in it. Just feel numb now.
 
Daisuk said:
Yeah, thankfully you get kind of sanded down by life as you get older and stop caring as much. My friend and I were discussing last night how few enjoyable things we have left in this world that isn't about some fudger wanting to make money off of you. The actual watching of what is going on at the pitch is one of them. But then you look up at any one point and it's buy this, buy that blah blah blah. Don't know where I'm going with this. Modern life sucks, haha.
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I have a few hobbies which keep me sane - music and gardening. Football certainly doesn't help though. Which team do you support?
 
Rorschach said:
I have a few hobbies which keep me sane - music and gardening. Football certainly doesn't help though. Which team do you support?
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Yeah, same here, although I've been out of the creative groove for a long while now. Do you play music? I wish I liked gardening! I just don't gravitate towards it (yet, anyway). Which hockey team? Vålerenga here in Norway (we crashed out of the playoffs, obviously, losing 11-0 away to our rivals in match 3, haha, ridiculous even by our standards), and Colorado Avs in the NHL. Avs are the only sports team I'm following that have been consistently good for a while now, we won the Stanley Cup in 2022, and are pretty damned good again this year.
 
Daisuk said:
Yeah, same here, although I've been out of the creative groove for a long while now. Do you play music? I wish I liked gardening! I just don't gravitate towards it (yet, anyway). Which hockey team? Vålerenga here in Norway (we crashed out of the playoffs, obviously, losing 11-0 away to our rivals in match 3, haha, ridiculous even by our standards), and Colorado Avs in the NHL. Avs are the only sports team I'm following that have been consistently good for a while now, we won the Stanley Cup in 2022, and are pretty damned good again this year.
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Yep, play and write a bit though I need to get my brick together properly on this one of the days. The gardening thing is something I've just got into recently enough. Vegetables rather than flowers. I have taken over an allotment too, which is in a proper mess, so that'll keep me busy for the summer. Thankfully, my uncle is a proper grower and helps me out with advice on this.

The closest we have to hockey over here is hurling. Best game in the world. ;)
 
Rorschach said:
Yep, play and write a bit though I need to get my brick together properly on this one of the days. The gardening thing is something I've just got into recently enough. Vegetables rather than flowers. I have taken over an allotment too, which is in a proper mess, so that'll keep me busy for the summer. Thankfully, my uncle is a proper grower and helps me out with advice on this.

The closest we have to hockey over here is hurling. Best game in the world. ;)
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iirc I think we have been in a similar position over the last few years ie home building?
Glad to say mine has pretty much come to an end ie FINISHED:) (although they're will always be things to do:)) .

Music is a gift to humanity. Listening, playing, creating...in one form or other it should be a part of everyone's life (especially these days). I've bought some new 'gear/tech' but really need to get my head back into creating (a faster laptop would help)

Gardening, on any level, is another of life's pleasures. We've grown veg and fruit for years (at a veggie patch), I've slacked due to the house but the Mrs has cracked on religiously. I do stuff in our own garden but I'm not a fussy gardener, let things develop in their own way. Sowing, planting, nurturing is the rawest form of creation beyond having sprogs.
It's hard to explain but working the land or even just your own little garden space is enormously relaxing/rewarding (maybe a historical trait handed down thru the generations?)
But whatever, It's a sanctuary (a south facing one;)) out there.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
Music is a gift to humanity. Listening, playing, creating...in one form or other it should be a part of everyone's life (especially these days). I've bought some new 'gear/tech' but really need to get my head back into creating (a faster laptop would help)
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lol - I'm not finding time to do my garden. Too busy with the music.

I have 7 gigs in 4 weeks with 6 different bands. I start tomorrow night with an old school 6 piece RnB band. We get together 2 or 3 times a year and we do some really old stuff. Harmonica, sax, guitars, keys etc as far back as Fats Domino and Chuck Berry. Then I move on to my Alanis tribute band. We're playing alongside a Bowie tribute next weekend and then onto Brentwood, Essex the following weekend. I'm also depping next Friday evening for a friend who's also a keys player in a local pub band. Then the Easter weekend comes around and we've put together a trio for my local pub because a band pulled out. The landlord reached out to me and asked to solve a problem for him and fill a Good Friday slot after a band pulled out. On the Saturday I'm keys in another pub band. Then onto the last weekend in April where we launch a new country band. Can't wait for that one.

April will be brutal, but I'm not complaining.
 
Rorschach said:
Yep, play and write a bit though I need to get my brick together properly on this one of the days. The gardening thing is something I've just got into recently enough. Vegetables rather than flowers. I have taken over an allotment too, which is in a proper mess, so that'll keep me busy for the summer. Thankfully, my uncle is a proper grower and helps me out with advice on this.

The closest we have to hockey over here is hurling. Best game in the world. ;)
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Nice! What are you gonna grow? I did manage to grow some squash, cucumbers and sweet peas a few years ago, but those things practically grow themselves.

Hurling! Haha. Didn't know it was called that! 😂 you do have a hockey league over there though! I know you sometimes have a team in the hockey equivalent of champions league.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
iirc I think we have been in a similar position over the last few years ie home building?
Glad to say mine has pretty much come to an end ie FINISHED:) (although they're will always be things to do:)) .

Music is a gift to humanity. Listening, playing, creating...in one form or other it should be a part of everyone's life (especially these days). I've bought some new 'gear/tech' but really need to get my head back into creating (a faster laptop would help)

Gardening, on any level, is another of life's pleasures. We've grown veg and fruit for years (at a veggie patch), I've slacked due to the house but the Mrs has cracked on religiously. I do stuff in our own garden but I'm not a fussy gardener, let things develop in their own way. Sowing, planting, nurturing is the rawest form of creation beyond having sprogs.
It's hard to explain but working the land or even just your own little garden space is enormously relaxing/rewarding (maybe a historical trait handed down thru the generations?)
But whatever, It's a sanctuary (a south facing one;)) out there.
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Yep just finished a self build after many years chipping away at it, though when I say finished there are a still a hundred things to actually finish. Glad to hear you are over the line. I do remember you talking about it now.

I have about 30 scaffolding planks knocking around so I'm using them to create raised beds at the allotment and at the house. For the ones around the house I'll probably pretty them up later with some sort of timber cladding I think, as they'll look a bit bricky otherwise. I've two beds done at the house which I've partially filled with branches and other green waste at the bottom. A technique similar to Hugelkultur I believe but it is just to save money on topsoil really. I should get them sown over the weekend - onions and carrots in those beds is the plan.

I have some practical reasons for getting into veg growing, including keeping me occupied now the house is done, but as you say the act of doing it is likely to be reward enough. Sounds like you have a bit of experience at this. Maybe we need a thread on veg gowing!
 
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