Late Post - Weekend Wrap

Have been at meetings this morning away from the office and only now have an opportunity to pen a posting…

Unfortunately it’s a bit haphazard, but here it goes:

Friday:  Went to the One Day cricket and saw Australia lose badly in their only loss of the summer.  No consolation that we turned it around on Sunday night with a nailbiting record run chase, but Friday was a day of misery for the Aussie team.  Personally, the day was great, the weather was fine and the beer was…. well, lite.  We had a bad lunch at the Bat & Ball Hotel first – the bistro was a disaster and I had to extort our meals from the kitchen… and some people were demanding their money back, but other than that the day was great.

Saturday:  Busy day!  Enrolled Kate into Netball… she is playing U8’s and the season starts in April.  She’s very keen and some of her classmates are in her team, so that’s all good.  Then it was to the pool where she had swimming lessons and stepped up into the “Dolphin” class.  She did it a bit tough, but there are 8 more weeks to go, and she’ll get better.  Then I went off to cricket were we had a great day.  Won the toss, we batted, and I opened up.  Batted from 1:30 to about 4:00pm and scored my second half century of the season with 68.  Along with Robbie who opened with me and got 33 and Crazy Dave at #3 got 60 as well, we piled on the runs and declared at 7/249.  We then had 30 minutes at the opposition and at stumps they’re 3/14 with Young Simon getting all 3 wickets.  We will be pushing on for outright next week!

Sunday:  Much more relaxing… but the kid’s blow up pool has a pin prick hole in it and patched that up.  Then Niki’s friend Julie and the kids came over for afternoon tea and I spent the major part of the day watching the cricket and painting blood bowl miniatures.  Got a lot of them done and my team is nearly ready for the new comp that has started today (must play my first game this coming fortnight).

All in all a good long weekend… today is my first 5 day week of the year!  Ouch!!