The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub

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Hi All

I need some help here please folks.

Some of you may have seen the comment I posted on Wednesday evening about a market in prescription drugs which was making it difficult to dispense drugs here in the UK. I have today spoken to a major breast cancer charity and the local cancer services network about this issue. They are both as angry and frustrated as I am, and are going through the "proper" channels.

In the meantime ...

I would like to do something like setting up a FB page to publicise the issue - but I don't know how. Can anyone help me, tell me how to do it?

Thanks.

It is very late (2.50 am), so I doubt I will see any replies in the morning. Might I suggest you send me a private message, or if you are on the FB pub, use my email. Many thanks

Hi Kia, I'm not sure of exactly how to do it and I don't have access to FB in work (apart from on my phone but i can't set up a group there). Your best option is to google it, there's no end of people will be asking the same question and plenty of people willing to give advice on how to do it!

Kia, start from here: -

https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php

Its not that difficult Kia and Rava's link is the perfect one to follow. Good luck with it and post it here when you have created it.

Quite interesting the HC Seedings. Yesterday I said I wouldn't mind getting Glaws or Sarries. Turns out we can't get either.
I wouldn't really want Bath this year again so would prefer LI. Had a great weekend in Reading a few years ago. Leicester would be alright as well. I have family there
Not sure about wanting Treviso! I would prefer Aironi given a choice. I think Treviso could be extremely tricky away from home.
Toulouse or Biarritz, I don't mind either. Both will be difficult.

Morning.

I was in bed at 8:30pm last night. Felt blydi awful. Back in work today though.

Morning Cari, hope your feeling better. Its a long weekend here in Holland so there will be a few heavy heads today and tomorrow ;-)

Cari. hope you are feeling better today. Were you travelling far yesterday?

Rava wrote: Cari. hope you are feeling better today. Were you travelling far yesterday?

No only Ludlow for a meeting. Nice little town. The sort of place where they would film something like Midsomer Murders.

Cheers Billy

Cari, "Nice little town" - "Murders" OMG . But I know what you mean.

Are you going to the BaaBaas game this wekend?

Good morning all.

in work early today unfortunately. we are launching are internal TV thing this morning as my exec member needs to see this before he goes off on his holidays.

so here until 8 last night and back in a 7:45.. but who cares as I am on my holidays for a week after today.

awsome.com

Morning all,

I had my sky tv set up this morning

And my service manager has just given me a couple of jars of redcurrent jelly she's made up as a thank you gift for all the hard work I've been doing over the last couple of weeks.

Me thinks today might just be a bit of a good day for me

Cari - hope you're feeling better today

Rava wrote:Cari,
Are you going to the BaaBaas game this wekend?

No I'm not Rava, but a couple of the regs from here are going.

Hope you’re feeling better soon Cari. Nothing worse than being under the weather when the weather is finally nice!

I’ve revised my ideal HC group by the way, the best one for away trips would be Bath, Scarlets and Montpellier.

Should be a great game. Great opportunity for some of the young Welsh players to show off their skills.
Strong BaaBaas lineup though. Isa could have a field day.

Watching Highlanders v Force here. The Highlanders are showing off their new green jersey today.

Mickado - I saw a story this morning that there was some "Hollywood" filming going on in your neck of the woods yesterday. Did you see?

I didn’t hear a thing about that Cari! Got a link?

Here’s a “tackle” by the player with the best name in S15 – Rocky Rhodes…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjd4uqqZPc

Imogen - sex with Giggs turned me lesbian

daily star 1/6/11

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

Mickado:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tallaght-housing-estate-gets-the-hollywood-treatment-2665132.html

I like the Highlanders green jersey.

Papers were late this morning . Must have been the fog!

Cari wrote:Mickado:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/tallaght-housing-estate-gets-the-hollywood-treatment-2665132.html

ha "The Killinarden estate in Tallaght, Dublin was transformed into a Belfast republican housing estate for the filming of 'Shadow Dancer'."

I wouldn't have thought it needed much transformation

Ah the beautiful Killanarden. They only place on the island they could find that looked like Belfast circa 1975. Not even Belfast looks like that anymore.

MBTGOG wrote:Watching Highlanders v Force here. The Highlanders are showing off their new green jersey today.

Wasn't sure that I'd like the new colours, but its growing on me ... like a fungus!

Munsty, have sky sports given up a lot of their coverage on the S15. I know you get some games a week but used to love getting up early on a Friday for the half 6 game as well as Saturdays.

But those games don't seem to be shown anymore.

Ah is it a bit rough there?

When I watched Our Friends in the North the other day, they did a great job of capturing the era on location.

I has a reputation you could say. Is it rough? Nah, it’s grand. It’s just got a lot of people living there that think a 3 piece suit is a tracksuit with matching runners.

Is it an overly harsh comment that scrummaging just doesn't seem to be taken seriously in the S15? Yet, it doesn't seem to hinder their players when they step up to intl level?

Mickado wrote:I has a reputation you could say. Is it rough? Nah, it’s grand. It’s just got a lot of people living there that think a 3 piece suit is a tracksuit with matching runners.

Ha. Well I used to live somewhere like that years ago, it's not so bad. I never owned a tracksuit though!

Yeh Cari, it's certainly getting better. wouldn't be too out of place to see several 10's of horses in gardens up there.

it's much better now to be honest and fromt he top of the hill in there you get a belter of a view right into Dublin City.

Micky,

If I remember last year and years before, SKY never showed Friday morning games so this year was an anomaly.

As,

They're good aren't they and people will remember the Highlanders now.

Mickado wrote:I has a reputation you could say. Is it rough? Nah, it’s grand. It’s just got a lot of people living there that think a 3 piece suit is a tracksuit with matching runners.

That’s a fair comment As, in any S15 match I watch (which isn’t that many I admit) the scrum isn’t as feverishly contested as in the NH. They seem to be more interested in getting the ball away from it quickly. But with the exception of Australia nobody struggles with it at test level. Odd.

mickyt wrote:Yeh Cari, it's certainly getting better. wouldn't be too out of place to see several 10's of horses in gardens up there.

it's much better now to be honest and fromt he top of the hill in there you get a belter of a view right into Dublin City.

Ironically a lot of housing estates like that have cracking views because they tend to built well out of the way. The one we lived on had a brilliant view of the area as far as the Preseli mountains.

Morning Hughie, cheers for the papers.

Looks like Dai Young is not a happy bunny this morning to have the Blues linked to Henson, why am I not surprised.

Still tomorrow is definitely going to be an interesting day from a Welsh rugby perspective, am really looking forward to the match now

Maybe it's that they scrum at this level to get the ball where up here sometimes it seems to be to get a penalty.

Henson to the Blues?! Nooo way!

Kado: Bath over Glaws?! That's the last time you'll sleep on my lawn on top of the millets superstore!!

mickyt wrote:Yeh Cari, it's certainly getting better. wouldn't be too out of place to see several 10's of horses in gardens up there.

it's much better now to be honest and fromt he top of the hill in there you get a belter of a view right into Dublin City.

It's Townhill!

I'm pretty sure I've encountered my first Wum on this board. Though it strikes me as unintentional and just block headedness

MBTGOG wrote:Maybe it's that they scrum at this level to get the ball where up here sometimes it seems to be to get a penalty.

Possibly, Munsty, but is that maybe because in the NH scrummaging is an art form in and of itself, whereas in the SH its simply a means to restarting the game? Hmmm ....

What was it Staggy?

Is this a cruel prank or unintentional great PR?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393702/Make-man-model-Online-campaign-catapults-unconventional-looking-wannabe-place-clothing-shops-hunt-star.html

Disappointed with the Force this week. They played with such speed and intent last week. This week has produced much more turgid rugby.

AsLongAsBut100ofUs wrote:

MBTGOG wrote:Maybe it's that they scrum at this level to get the ball where up here sometimes it seems to be to get a penalty.

Possibly, Munsty, but is that maybe because in the NH scrummaging is an art form in and of itself, whereas in the SH its simply a means to restarting the game? Hmmm ....

I wonder. Yet at test level the Kiwis and Saffers are well able to mix with us Northerners. Maybe Ireland would be more suited to SH competitions. If scrummaging is an art Ireland is basically a child scribbing with crayons

red_stag wrote:I'm pretty sure I've encountered my first Wum on this board. Though it strikes me as unintentional and just block headedness

You do attract that sort of poster Stag, no offence like, but they respond to firm views by disclosing their prejudices. That is not a WUM.

Glas - what was it?

random thingy of the day - i just spent 5 minutes talking to Antoine Dubek this morning.

BRiNG ON THE WALLLLLLLL!!!!

Hobo - that Hole in the Wall programme was blydi awful TV. I bet ADB would rather be remembered for partnering Anne Widdicombe on SCD than that!

Glas - it's OK I think I see it now.