We are soon going to be at the start of the cricket season here in Australia.  This means that for me (David) I feel the need to become slightly less useless as a member of the lowest division cricket side for Glenbrook-Blaxland CC in the local league.  So I have been having a couple of “net sessions”, facing a bowling machine in some indoor nets in Penrith.  The first session wasn’t too bad, although I wasn’t turning in to face the ball enough as I batted, and was hit a couple of times just inside and above of my left knee (I bat left-handedly).  When I went back the next week our coach wasn’t there, so Andrew set the machine going for me, and although the speed was about half of what a professional fast bowler would manage, the first ball was WAY too fast for me, and hit exactly where the bruises were just going purple from the previous week.

I hope that Andrew was already familiar with the words that I used ….

Nick, meanwhile, is continuing to enjoy his hockey.  His side will be in the “finals” (actually, as four sides progress to the “semi.s” out of a total of six teams in the whole league, this doesn’t mean a lot in itself.  However Nick’s side are coming second.  As you can see, it takes three people to get the ball from Nick.