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Is anyone else a RUGBY WIDOW this evening?

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:10

I have just had the Rugby v Bucket full of French and Saunders battle. I won!! I am now chortling away while DH has been ejected to the pub to do his 'uni-clapping' (has anyone else encountered this strange male-sport-watching-phenomenon?) out of sight/sound of me. Hooray!

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faylisa · 28/09/2007 21:12

My DH has been banished to the pub to watch it too - I really can't stand to watch another minute

Is it very wrong of me to be secretly hoping England lose tonight and don't go any frther in the competition?? (I suspect it is!)

fridaynightrocks · 28/09/2007 21:13

Both DHs (two if us here not into bigetry! (sp???)) watching as we drink and MN

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:15

You naughty naughty wife! I am scottish (obviously!) and have more reason than some to scorn the English team. I dutifully sent him off to the pub with a 'Hope you win' (Come on-n-n-n Toga!!!)

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Boogalooblue · 28/09/2007 21:16

Another 'YES' from the sitting room indicates that England are faring rather better than the first couple of games

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:16

Clearly several glasses of white wine have been consumed since DH departed (errr 10 mins agoo...)

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Boogalooblue · 28/09/2007 21:16

Bigotry by the way

fridaynightrocks · 28/09/2007 21:20

Thanks, that's how I spelt it first tiime but it looked all wrong!

Heathcliffscathy · 28/09/2007 21:21

yes i am. a rugby widow

Tutter · 28/09/2007 21:21

tonighty i am an Oyster Widow

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:22

So, come on, do any of you experience this strange mysterious single clap that seems to mean something serous is brewing on the pitch. I jump out of my skin sometimes when DH is at it.

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Indith · 28/09/2007 21:22

Dp hogging the TV with Rugby. I'm on the sofa warming my feet on him while playing on MN. In fact Rugby gives me much uninterrupted MN time...training Tues and Thurs, matches Sat afternoon and now the World Cup! Got me a trip to France to see my gran too as she lives opposite the stadium in Bordeaux.

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:23

Tutter, I have visions of you in a room on your own while your DP sits at a candle-lit table scoffing oysters alone to his hearts content...

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Heathcliffscathy · 28/09/2007 21:23

dh shouting a lot at the ref. but he is supporting tonga.

unknownrebelbang · 28/09/2007 21:24

I would be a rugby widow, alas I'm a work widow instead.

DS2 however is excitedly keeping me uptodate with the score.

DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2007 21:24

Banishing dh to the pub? Why didn't I think of that? I am banished to another room as he hogs the tv every night he is home.

Tutter · 28/09/2007 21:24

hf

unfortunately i am in my sitting room with my FIL

while DH in galway at an oyster festival being schmoozed

Heathcliffscathy · 28/09/2007 21:25

tutter that is heinous....you should be with him to reap the late night benefits!

Tutter · 28/09/2007 21:26

sophable i am postnatal

reaping not compatible with my nights atm

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HighlandFling · 28/09/2007 21:26

Oh dear, oh dear Tutter. A truly unenviable situation to be in.

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DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2007 21:27

OH my dh isn't willing the English on. He is Australian and hoping they will lose. All I hear is occasional tirades at the refereeing, but that is par for the course for dh.

BTW, don't you mean bigamy rather than bigotry?

pinkbubble · 28/09/2007 21:27

Wish my DH would go to the pub to watch the rugby, I dont just feel a rugby widow but at the moment a any form of sports widow!!!! DH has been in his element these last few weeks, he does make me laugh especially when he comes out with the classic line of "I dont ask for much, but please dont talk now, I'm watching 'Z' sport, if you keep on talking, then you will have to go to bed!" What a cheek!!!!! Wouldnt mind but DDs are playing quietly with Polly Pockets in livingroom, minding their own business!

One weekend DH thought he had gone to heaven there was so much sport on, one very happy man! bless!!!!!! NOT!

themoon66 · 28/09/2007 21:28

DH is in sitting room shrieking at the Rugby. I'm other side of glass doors in study, MNing happily.

themoon66 · 28/09/2007 21:29

Just glanced at him. He is so tense he is actually rocking backwards and forwards.

DumbledoresGirl · 28/09/2007 21:30

Hiya pinkbubble. Your dh sounds very polite and positively considerate compared with mine. He shouts at the children if they utter a single word when he watches sport. I mean, does he have to hear every single word of a rugby match commentary? let alone the Grand Prix!

Elffriend · 28/09/2007 21:30

Me! Hello fellow widows! Alas, it now means that my secret (addiction to mumsnet) has been discovered 'cos I'm bored, drinking more wine than intended and playing here whilst DH claps, comments and generally carries on conversations as though the team can hear him. Hey ho. Mind you, he does also keep reading over my shoulder so CAN be distracted. Thanks to another thread, I am also trying to work out which superhero(ine) I want to be. Which is way too intellectual following the day I've had...