Saturday sport and a surprise wedding
Busy weekend.
Saturday started with the usual children sporting activities. A well known ritual for most parents.
As last Saturday was spent curled up in the foetal position and I was feeling better I wanted to participate.
Melbourne weather was ordinary at best with heavy rain most of the day.
What I have learnt is that the netball club administrator is cut from the same cloth as a US Navy Seal. Squat, fearless, adept at barking orders and will never, ever call off a game of netball, irrespective of the climate. I am sure the motto “the only easy day was yesterday” is secretly tattooed somewhere under that skirt just out of sight. Probably in capitals.
Petra is the coach of the under 9’s team that the girls play in which ensures that I concentrate intently, every now and then I may dare to suggest a move or two. At my peril usually, but my mother never raised a coward so a persevere.
Its was good game they all played well. Parents cheering, drinking latte’s, talking about Julia, Tony, what will Malcolm do, Greece, property prices and car parking. The game ended, I whisked the twins into the car to race across the eastern suburbs to their basket ball game. The window was 30 minutes!
Made it just in time, kids changing in the car. Another group of parents, another good game, more coffee.
Game finished, back into the car to drive back to netball to watch Siena play under 13’s. Still raining, courts under water.
I smiled a big smile to the navy seal.
All was done by early afternoon and I was feeling good but tired. We had a family engagement that evening so I went to bed and slept the afternoon. Loved it.
The 4 Duchini girls spent the late afternoon trying on frocks, getting hair done and doing all that is required to look radiant for the function.
The engagement was at the Heide Museum of Modern Art.
A stylish venue that was perfect for the function. The food was prepared by “Vue de Monde”, the masterful Shannon Bennett crew and its was amazing. Without doubt the best food I have ever had at any engagement (I should say wedding). Period.
With guests all gathered our hosts spoke beautifully as we where all welcomed and then surprised us with getting married there and then.
It was a fun night. We left at 10.30. I was shattered and the girls where tired. Petra was desperate for that one more chardy but alas that was not to be.
It was a huge day for me and I loved it.
Today I have paid the price a bit having spent most of the day in bed, but so what – I can.
My Unplanned Sabbatical 
Sometimes its the detail you leave out of a story…………I too was at a jnr sporting event on sat morning – 4.5 long wet cold muddy (did i mention wet?) hours watching cricket in the rain (the army seal has a cousin) . How I longed for my big shiny blue industrial strength sports umbrella – how I looked for it in the morning,accusing others of misplacing it……then i remembered where it was…..yes, stolen by a neighbour and probably providing shelter at a waterlogged netball game for the whole team!
p.s – whats wrong with squat?
Hi Serg
good to see there are some good days amongst the shitty feeling days. How did Petra let herself get sucked into the coaches role, and does she wear a little skirt like the girls? Mick and I traveled to melb ,also to watch kids play weekend sport but our cricket and tennis were washouts,obviously the boys coaches arn’t Navy Seals !
don
I thought it was only the Poms that whinged – 37 degrees in Perth, no rain only waves of heat rising from the baked tarmac in undulating waves. So hot your eyeballs dry out after only 15 seconds of exposure.
You brought back memories with the netball navy seal – they were the good old days – uncompromising and inflexible sports administrators with varicous veiny legs permentantly wearing netball skirts. When winning at all costs was not a dirty word (even when you were only 8) and trying hard and having fun was what Seacrest primary School did because they obviously had no netball talent.
LP
That administrator has retired to Melbourne
Plleeeeassseee give her back her umbrella!! Snez got lost today on level 15..chemo schemo…she wants her brolly back..oh does she ever want that brolly back..much like the five minutes she carried on about it that I’d like back…