Back to school ….

There is a huge difference, however: Nick can drive!

This is a huge development, which we really didn’t see in advance.  Perhaps it’s dependent on the person – Nick is a reliable, sensible person to whom we are more than happy to entrust the car.  in fact I think Sue is less worried about Nick driving than she is about me (David).  So if Nick (or Andrew) needs to stay late, or get home early (cricket training, for instance), Nick can take the car to school, and the problem is solved.

The cricket season has re-started after the Christmas break.  That sounds a really odd thing to say for an Englishman, but not for an Australian, as I have become.  Nick is now opening the batting for 2nd Grade, for Glenbrook-Blaxland Cricket Club.  He hasn’t made a big score, yet, but it is still a much greater achievement than his father ever managed!

Nick opens the batting for 2nd Grade, at St John’s Oval.

He is now an imposing figure – 188cm and 70 kg – and has the potential to be a destructive opener: when he gets going he can really tear a bowling attack apart.