Tales from the trough, Episode 1

29 Nov, Australia v Wales, last test of the Autumn internationals. Wales squeak home (deservedly) over the Wallabies. We're all wearing our green and gold kit. After the game we start pub hopping around Cardiff. Wit hit the Slug and Lettuce and the the Old Arcade.

So I'm standing at the urinal in the Old Arcade,
one Wallaby jersey in a see of Welsh jumpers, and one of the red clothed Taffies turns to me and yells out

And we were singing hymns and arias,
'Land of my Fathers', 'Ar hyd y nos'.

Not to be out done I reply with a loud and drunken "Once a jolly swagman, camped by a billabong ..." at which point all, and I mean all the men's room breaks out into a welsh-accented Walzting Matilda, and sing the entire first verse and chorus.