It's official, I am Te Atatu Tigers latest recruit to their women's football team. I went to my first training session tonight and my lack of ball skills didn't seem to put them off! It was so much fun to be running around again and playing something competitively. I have been saying for ages that I fancied trying football as the women's leagues are popular here and I wanted to try something other than hockey. Football is the obvious choice as the tactics and running off the ball is pretty similar (apart from that very annoying offside rule). Ian was playing in a tournament on Saturday which included men's and women's teams and I was again spouting on about how I'd love to play so Ian went and found the captain of one of the team's and brought them to me. I'm sure I could have talked about it for a whole season without actually doing anything. I love my husband for getting me out and doing something. It turns out that the team he found train just a few minutes walk from where we live and play a short drive away on Saturday mornings. Ian might play in the men's league which is later in the day on saturday. Having had a good run around I am full of optimism for my new found hobby but I have a sneaking suspicion that I won't be able to move tomorrow. I haven't run much in about a year- since the early days of my pregnancy with Immy and I haven't done that sort of stop -start running since I was just pregnant with Ethan and still playing hockey!
In other news, we have a working shower, basin and toilet in the sleepout. At the moment the toilet is more of a spa than anything else as it was accidentally hooked up to the hot water system! The plumber is going to fix it at some point. The Gib stopper is coming tomorrow so we will be able to paint soon and get the furniture back in and the clutter out of the house.
By the way, anyone fancy some feijoas? I picked up over a hundred of them from the foot of our two trees this afternoon. I can eat one or two but definitely not that many. Or anyone got a good recipe for Feijoa jam?
We have had to dig out the duvets and slippers here as it is getting much cooler at night. The clocks went back last weekend which has made the evenings much darker. Ethan is struggling to adjust to the time change. Last night Immy slept from 1030 until about 515 and i think it was ethan that woke her up as he was calling for us from 5am. Ian managed to get him to stay in bed for another hour but it was still an early start for all of us.
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Sarah, you take care of those post- natal tendons and muscles !You are too precious to go crook. Love the warm spa in the toilet, it's called a bidet ? I am involved in the church Holiday Club this week doing puppets for'Finding the Real Treasure'. Pirates are the theme 'Jim Lad'.Lovely to see you all on Skype.
Bye and Godbless Mum & Eddie
Hi marion, i will be trying to take it easy. I've got new boots for the occasion so i don't injury myself falling and skidding about on the pitch.
Ethan has been taking about you both since we caught up on skype. We were watching a DVD tonight about best friends and I asked him who his best friend was. He said "nana gamps".
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