Category: Sport

Cricket Training

Three groups of under 11 kids training on the one oval. Yes, they all look the same and I can’t depict my own until he starts walking towards the car. I have gone to a Moleskine notebook and have still been using the Japanese ink brush pen and then colouring with watercolour. The pages of […]

The Carnival is Over

Stopping all stations A photographer, A punter, and a drunk guy drunk calling; A lady Frankston bound, nodding off. Spring and Winter for Gai and Bart Buffering and Fiorente. Till we meet again the Carnival is over.

Cricket is back

Training night. Nothing like discovering you have waited for half an hour at the wrong oval. Under 11 kids in the dark and in the same training gear, all look the same.

Guineas Day; and a Pineapple for Dinner

The season has changed and a wet winter has become a windy spring. It is late afternoon on Guineas Day and I am walking passed the local oval. Goal posts have gone, the mud has dried and the turf wicket is down. Whites replace the blue and white Grammarian guernseys and a game of cricket […]

Footy Fun Day

Jack Riewoldt rode his bike to school today. Fully clad in his Tiger gear; the number 8 on his jumper, black shorts, yellow and black socks. Runners, not boots, on his feet. He pedalled a 16inch Malvern Star BMX that was also in the right colours, yellow and black. I call it the Tiger Bike.