On Sunday he ventured north to Murrayfield with Chris Smith to see Scotland put France to the sword (dans son reves). The reality was a fairly convincing win for France with the outsized centre Bastareaud scoring a couple of tries. YC doesn't usually drink beer, but after the delights of a vegan haggis samosa (no kidding) he felt the need to cleanse his palate with a drop of the necessary. So the Deuchars in The Last Drop and Stewart Ale in The Half Way House were subjected to some rigorous quality control: they passed.
Today YC worked off yesterday's beer with a run up Simonside from Rothbury. The snow has gone in the valleys but there is still plenty about on north facing slopes. The usual fun descent down Simonside's north-west face (photo right) still had a foot of snow on it and reduced YC to a hesitant slither.
