We have been here for exactly one month today. So we thought we would celebrate with a game of family cricket - well family 
cricket minus Zander, but he was there in spirit (in the form of Graham) but who's counting. Josh grabbed his bat and his tennis balls and off we set for somewhere where we could play. It didn't have to be big, we are used to playing in our driveway. The problem is the grass is not for walking on here, 
we did find a park that had a swing set so we thought that it would be OK to play there. But the park was a muddy swamp - not really sure how you are supposed to reach the swings unless you had gumboots. Anyway we found another park which had a road through the middle of it - but as it was blocked off except for motor bikes we thought it could work. And it d
id, with sticks as stumps, a pile of pavers as wickets and trees as fielders we played our inaugral game of backyard cricket or maybe it should be called paver road cricket - unfortunately we got rained out but it was a lot of fun, with lots of arguments as rules were changed and modified, Josh wasn't happy with 'the landing in a puddle you're out' rule, but it was great even Mikaela enjoyed it.
cricket minus Zander, but he was there in spirit (in the form of Graham) but who's counting. Josh grabbed his bat and his tennis balls and off we set for somewhere where we could play. It didn't have to be big, we are used to playing in our driveway. The problem is the grass is not for walking on here, 
we did find a park that had a swing set so we thought that it would be OK to play there. But the park was a muddy swamp - not really sure how you are supposed to reach the swings unless you had gumboots. Anyway we found another park which had a road through the middle of it - but as it was blocked off except for motor bikes we thought it could work. And it d
id, with sticks as stumps, a pile of pavers as wickets and trees as fielders we played our inaugral game of backyard cricket or maybe it should be called paver road cricket - unfortunately we got rained out but it was a lot of fun, with lots of arguments as rules were changed and modified, Josh wasn't happy with 'the landing in a puddle you're out' rule, but it was great even Mikaela enjoyed it.
It does tend to get a little damp over here at this time of the year. November will be dry and not see rain again until April/May next year. I have little fish swimming in the road sag outside my driveway. Great blogs. Keep on blogging.
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