Summer (day) of sport

How hot was it today? Blue sky, no clouds, and car uphol­stery hot enough to cure you of piles once and for all.

I got a call from the boys ask­ing to go down to the SMU field to kick some footy for a bit, in prepa­ra­tion for Sunday’s long-awaited touch footy game we’ve organ­ised. It’s been a while since we’ve played, and I don’t think we’ve had a decent game since when we were all in Sydney.

In Syd­ney, almost every week­end was a sport­ing week­end, rain, shine or hail. If you were really sick or injured (from play­ing sport), you’d stay home and watch sport. If not, you’d be out there, play­ing all four codes of foot­ball (rugby union, rugby league, aussie rules and soc­cer), some­times in the same afternoon.

But we’re not in Syd­ney any­more, and it’s hard try­ing to orga­nize a game of footy, because unlike games like soc­cer where every­one plays soc­cer because it’s a sim­ple game, touch footy and its vari­ants require a lit­tle bit more grey mat­ter, and most peo­ple don’t quite want to work their noo­dle dur­ing leisure time.

Today, there were three of us, and a school­boy who asked nicely if he could join us, and we ran our­selves ragged after half an hour. I am aching every­where. But I have a very, very slight tan and I’m hap­pier for it.

So I’m hop­ing its blue skies, no clouds on Sun­day once more. Gotta get as many games in before I grow too old to run around on the field.

Not too foul if you were sick or injured and laid up at home