Category: Sport

Pretty in Pink

Old stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground, adorned in Pink and renamed The Jane McGrath Stand, for this Pink Day, the third day of the last test match v India Cricketers in the blinding sun. Pink hats.

Wicket Keeper

I am sitting here at my desktop doing odd jobs such as paying bills and booking tickets to things. It’s 8:51 and the first day of school holidays. The pace is off. I am in the upstairs lounge room, kids area, at silly mid-off as it turns out. I have almost been whacked in the […]

Carnival of Footy

This is the J.L Murphy Reserve in Port Melbourne. The oval was host to the Southern Metro Junior Football Lightning Carnival on a July Sunday morning, a couple of weeks ago. Hundreds of kids, all about eight or nine years old, mostly boys, but certainly a scattering of girls present also, descended upon the oval […]

Go Nic, Go

I am not sure what comes over me at the basketball stadium on Sunday afternoons, but something does. My daughter has been playing for a local club for years. She is fourteen now, but has been playing from the age of eight or nine. By nature, I am a fairly calm and ordered sort of […]

I’ve Been Cotched

“Richmond, Richmond, Richmond Fire Up, Fire Up, Fire Up Richmond, Richmond, Richmond.” The cheer squad chanted to no avail.

Footy Season

I planted some seeds in the garden a couple of weeks ago. They were Yates Sweet Peas, Brilliant Fragrance, Perfumed Pastels; the ones that come in the silver foil packets. I picked them up for a couple of dollars at the local hardware, where they hung by the cash register.

Green Bat

I am learning how to score………not in a nefarious way, but in a game of cricket. A few years ago my older boys were all playing junior cricket. At one stage they played for three different clubs. This meant different games, at different grounds, but often all at the same time. The only significant benefit […]