Philip Deakin

Married to Kate, Father to Henry & George, Chartered Surveyor and retired rugby player.

All views and opinions expressed are my own.

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@SimonOKing Just in time for Beavers/cubs camp, thank goodness!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Martin Johnson and @samwarburton_ absolute dream team for #rugby insights. Well done @bbc

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@WorldsStrongest When my 6 Yr old watches me do a garage workout and ask "Daddy, when are you doing that competition?"

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Been watching the #6nations for 3 decades and still get nervous before #EnglandRugby matches! Come on the lads.

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Getting Deakin junior (8yrs old) into the Top Gear back catalogue. First up an '02 episode with the Aston Martin Vanquish by @JeremyClarkson "Daddy when did he die" and "why did he leave Top Gear" hmmmm long story son.

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Loving this from @fijirugby come on, keep it up!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

No fan of #Wales but a shame to see a weakened side utterly humiliated against #AllBlacks

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@JLyall93 Are these weights pre or post sunday roast/monday morning no.2??

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@jimhamilton4 Johnno looking so happy, the world has turned on it's axis!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Has the video ref got anything else to add? Wouldn't have been right for wales to get a grand slam!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@StephenFerris6 Am I right that Wales have now won 3 matches against 14 men and got the two dodgy decisions against England. The only match where they didn't need a hand was Italy!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Good recommendation @MartinBayfield. Did my first @ErgosZoom with @matthewcpinsent this morning. Definitely the way forward.

[Martin Bayfield @MartinBayfield]

Great session with @MarkHunterGB and @ErgosZoom this morning. I was flying blind on the last blast, hadn’t programmed the monitor properly 🙄

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@joshgardner Genuine question. Viewed from the Glouc try line, does du prez shoulder not hit back/shoulder rather than head. Looks worse from the touchline view!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

May need to tone this down a tad, but definitely incorporating this into the parenting playbook!

[richard bacon @richardpbacon]

Brilliant

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Lovely short article by @davidflatman, getting the first family mutt was our best decision (apart from having the kids maybe).

[David Flatman @davidflatman]

My beloved dog died recently, and I wrote a short article about him. I miss him very much.

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@IamAustinHealey it could be worse, the #superleaguegrandfinal is 0-2 after 53mins.

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

So poignant and stirring!

[Brian Moore @brianmoore666]

Anyone else remember exactly where they were and who they were with when they watched this last episode?

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@miketindall13 #pgrfc field of dreams. Cracker of an England shirt as well!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

@Jebbster1975 Sorry, not in the 'bubble'!

[Philip Deakin @DeakinPhilip]

Any chance that the mass media, especially @bbclaurak could acknowledge that the government's earlier approach to keeping Covid under control could have been successful if people had abided by local restrictions rather than the mass flouting of restrictions? @BBC so partisan!