She would not have it any other way, though, and is now looking forward to playing for Scotland in Italy this coming weekend.
The 26-year-old centre started Scotland’s round one and two games versus Wales and France in the number 12 shirt and then, in the fallow week, she was with GB Sevens in Hong Kong.
She is dual-contracted to Scottish Rugby and GB Sevens and very much has her eye on making it to a second Olympics with the latter in July.
However, for now her attentions have switched back to XVs and, after coming off the bench in the disappointing home loss to England in round three of the Six Nations last weekend, she has been restored to the starting line-up.
On Saturday the Scots, who have won one and lost two so far, will be in Parma to take on fourth placed Italy with all of the countries below England and France in the standings seemingly battling it out for third place and the WXV and Rugby World Cup gifts that a finish in that spot will bring come April 27.
“I was in Hong Kong in the fallow week, so it’s been a bit of a different Six Nations for me, but I’ve been loving it being between the two different set-ups,” Thomson, who has 58 caps to her name, said.
“I wouldn’t say it’s easy to switch between XVs and sevens, but it’s good fun and I like to keep my hand in with both.
“In terms of with Scotland, before I went to Hong Kong after a good win in Wales [victorious 20-18], and then we were disappointed with our performance against France because we knew we’d be able to compete.
“We were literally in the game until the 82nd minute and pushed them all the way [losing 15-5].
“Then after Hong Kong, in the England game we were more disappointed with the performance [losing 46-0]. That performance wasn’t us. England were very good at the weekend and, on top of us not having a good day, that made them look even better.
“We were disappointed with that, but we’re now going into a block of two more games and we need to get the balance right of reviewing and learning but also parking previous results and moving on.”
Scotland maybe got caught up in the fact that there was a record home crowd at Hive Stadium last weekend and got tangled up in the way England like to play.
As the Scots have improved over the last year they have looked at their best when they have focused on themselves.
They did that last April when they beat Italy in Edinburgh to end a poor run of form and start a batch of victories that would become a record seven Test wins on the spin.
The group want to get back to that focus and Thomson said: “Ahead of Wales and into France earlier in this tournament we were just focusing on ourselves, so we want to get back to that and keep looking at our performances and how we can get better.
“We’ve had close encounters with Italy for years. They obviously like to play a lot and they’ve got Beatrice Rigoni moving out into that 13 channel and she’s a good attacker, a good rugby player, so we know that we’ll just need to be strong across the park and not give her space to play.”
On Sunday, Thomson and a number of her teammates were at a play in Edinburgh called 90 Days which looks back at the history of women’s rugby in Scotland and how the country put together and hosted the 1994 Rugby World Cup at short notice.
“The play was so good,” Thomson enthused.
“It was quite emotional, actually. We talk about what we want to do in the shirt and leaving it in a better place and it’s nice to hear more about the origins of the women’s game in Scotland and the trailblazers who were part of it.
“It was emotional as I say and it was cool to be in the same room as people who literally started it for us. I feel like we owe them a lot.”
