Twinkleham

[poliphilo]

 "He loves rugger," she said. "In fact he's going to a match today in Twinkleham..."

"Twickenham," we suggested.

"Yeah, well," she said, "I don't know anything about rugger."

And then, several hours later- after the dinner and the playing with babies and the catching up with news- we took a wrong turning on our way home and, by one of those (probably) meaningless freaks of synchronicity-  found ourselves driving through a stretch of London we'd never visited before. First Kew, then Richmond-   then down a road where people in bunches that turned into crowds all seemed to be converging on a single place. What was the draw? Why the match between Leicester and Saracens at Twinkleham Twickenham- and somewhere among them, no doubt, was the chap our granddaughter had been telling us about....

Comments

[cmcmck]

If Twinkleham isn't a place it should be! :o)

[poliphilo]

It does indeed exist, it's in Fairyland.

[mallorys_camera]

Synchronicity! 😀

[poliphilo]

Yes, indeed!

[paserbyp]

Twickenham Stadium (officially known as the Allianz Stadium, Twickenham for sponsorship reasons) in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England, is a rugby union stadium owned by the Rugby Football Union (RFU), English rugby union governing body, which has its headquarters there. The stadium is England's national rugby union stadium and is the venue of the England national rugby union team home matches.

It is the world's largest rugby union stadium, the second largest stadium in the United Kingdom, behind Wembley Stadium, and the fourth largest in Europe.

[poliphilo]

Well, we drove right past it yesterday afternoon.