North of the border

Spent the weekend up in Ediburgh where me and the girlfriend took in a Whiskey tour the castle and just the general delights of The Fringe festival, Fantastic and beautiful city will be there again in a few months, Will let the pictures do the talking.

Did the whiskey tour - Included a ride which went through the process of making whiskey and then selecting a whiskey from one of 4 areas where scotch whiskey is made and going through a process to decide which one you wanted - I chose a Single Malt Highland Whiskey. After this you went through to the largest Scotch whiskey collection in the world - 3,500 bottles of the stuff.

Heres me -  ( Universal Works chambray shirt,Levis 501 & Clarks Desert Trek)

Then we spent the day just wandering and settling down to watch the world go by in one of the green areas down princes street - Great. We also went out for a meal that night in the city and had Italian, Fantastic food and also had a few bottles of Peroni.

On the Sunday we took in the delights of Edinburgh Castle..Fantastic views of the city and amazing history.

The days attire: Uniqlo lightweight jacket,Lyle & Scott l/s polo
Chino Shorts & Superga Cotu Classic.

Universal Works - Chambray Shirt

This came through the post today - Universal Works chambray shirt.


Made in England, The shirt is 100% Cotton chambray and has two breast pockets one with a concealed  pen pocket ( shown in picture), black buttons with contrasting red stitching and reinforced elbow patches, Easily the best shirt I have owned in terms of quality and fit.


Here is more info on the brand itself taken from another website - 


Founder of Universal Works, David Keyte, spent years working for British fashion labels such as Paul Smith, before deciding to set up his own label in 2008. Keyte started Universal Works with the aim of producing well made, well considered, easy to wear, affordable menswear and accessories. The brands collections are loosely inspired by workwear using quality fabrics and produced in a number of small factories, often based in the UK, creating garments that are never mass produced and designed to last beyond a single season.

Pre Season: Marine FC away

Found out as I got home last night that a Wigan Athletic XI where playing down the M58 in Crosby, So within half a hour four of us set off down the motorway to see a new ground have a drink ( one larger shandy for me) and stand on a terrace while watching the talent that could come out of our club in the next few years.


After a quick swift one in a Thwaites pub just near the ground, We paid our entrance fee and made our way to the terrace where the few traveling latics fans where.Wigan started off well and although I could not tell who was who due to not recognize anyone, We had people who where quick down the wing and making it hard  for the Marine squad, Danny Redmond had a fantastic long rage effort early on in the game & Wigan athletic took the lead with a Joe Fowler header 35 minutes into the game. The game was quite fast paced through the first half and Latics held on to there 1-0 lead going into the break.
I don't normally go into detail about half time however during this game there where two acceptions. One was the fact i had a chippy tea which was swimming in the worse gravy I have ever tasted and then it all came back up during the second half, However while heading back over to the terrace, Someone pulled me to one side and asked " you right the Wigan website don't you?" Then it hit me, This very blog. He made some great comments about it and told me to keep it up and also that I look younger than on pictures on here...Maybe this will follow me on into further adulthood, Turns out he is a palace fan who moved up to Aintree, Very smart dressed as well, Thanks for the comments it is appreciated!


Into the second half latics kept there lead and slowly increased there attacking, While marine had a good couple of shots which I applauded.


Towards the end of the game, Latics managed to "roll" the ball accross the goal mouth for Rakish Bingham to do a text book finish into the net.




Attendence: 221

Last Thing Purchased...

Oki Ni x 6876 collaboration sweatshirt in rust, Suitable branding and fantastic quality made out of 100% cotton, Its quite a heavy sweatshirt and the only branding I can only see on this sweatshirt is six eight seven six on the right hand sleeve.

Suitable branding