Thanks everyone - it was a great day yesterday - after being press-ganged into 'granny drag' to represent the village knit and knatter group, four of us blokes won 'best float' in the parade and a good few pints were bought and sunk.
The only sad part is that I'm no longer a toy-boy - roll on the end of May when gness moves up a year :-)
Garnd Slam for my adopted country - enjoyed the match (albeit nervously for quite a while, until Ireland pulled clear) with some of my best friends and then a thoroughly Irish dinner of bacon and cabbage and a good nip of whsikey.