Here comes the HOTSHOT

What a day, we get to avoid the jingoistic flag waving and do something useful instead……. It’s kid’s football tournament season today was the turn of meddyg sy’n who had a great couple of hours, after getting a blister in the first match he ‘bravely’ battled on ploughing a furrow on the left side of midfield. The Toxic Monkey meanwhile kept insisting we play football with him for hours when all I wanted was to sit in the chair and watch the match…. Eventually Mrs OB and TM went of to the loo and obviously missed meddyg sy’ns finest footballing moment, collecting the ball on the left he plays it across the pitch to the right wing where his team-mate takes one touch and shoots across the goalie who can only palm it out leaving out hero to run in and rifle the ball into the roof of the net from 10 yards out while under pressure from a defender. He then looked at me in surprise (don’t know who was the most surprised him or me) as he usually doesn’t go that far up the pitch… Well done young man

Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday……. Will we survive the sleepover? One of meddyg sy’ns classmates is staying overnight more to follow

Update – 11:45 – Phone call – Off out for a picnic with one of the Toxic Monkey’s friends at a pagan well (all off five minutes drive away) back in a bit

Update – 14:25 – Lovely picnic, Lovely Chat, back 25 mins later than expected, just enough time to open the windows to release the noxious dog smells before the guest arrives

Update – 14:40 – 10 mins in and they’re arguing about who knows the most about Star Wars

Update – 14:50 – 20 mins in and the floor has disappeared under a pile of lego

Update – 15:50 – Still Legoing, though the Power Ranger box has made an appearance

Update – 17:00 – Pasta & Sauce time, clean bowls all round, not sure how they managed to eat with all the talking going on

Update – 18:00 – Ice Creams and footballs into faces (ouch)

Update – 19:30 – Board games, Uno, noisy, noisy

Update – 20:30 – Bedtime (yeh right)

Update – 21:25 – Silence…… bliss….. ’til they wake up

Match of the Day

The Toxic Monkey’s first football match. A resounding 14 – 1 win for the Kingfishers. Carnage ensued

He Scores Goals Galore, He Scores Goals

Today was Child Twos first football training session so at 10am there we were down at the ‘Chippy’ a mere 14  hrs after freezing my b*****s off for two hours the previous evening while Child One had his training session (why can’t they have training at the same time?) – We appear to have a new ‘Ginger Ninja’ on our hands,

• first the warm-up nothing special there
• next take penalties, slams penalty into the corner
• the match, scores three goals
• ploughs into opponents scattering them to the four winds (only slightly late arriving)
• casually trips opponent from behind & then jogs past him

separated at birth?

A Challenge For Me A Challenge For My Coracle

It’s that time of year again, the 3 Village Challenge, this year it descended into yet more chaos & farce as the mighty Llanishen team was down to bare bones due to a cricket match being arranged in Chepstow on the same day thus depriving the perennial underachievers of most of last years team as well as a bout of sniffles amongst the oranjball’s however, we still won the cricket & touch rugby and even managed a draw in the tug of war (which we would have won if we hadn’t had to compete in 4 consecutive pulls) with me at anchor, a social worker, lay preacher/prospective MP, some kids, & D against the horny-handed sons of the soil from Llanfihangel and Trellech Grange, The official photographer spent much of his time on the whisky stall (one for you, one for me) so Mrs OB took over for a while, the boys got to catch eggs (surprisingly well considering they were the youngest) Mr Gibbs spent most of the time either asleep or scrounging… oh and our replacements in the 3 legged race who had been practicing (apparently), practicing what, coming last?, going very slowly? pah!

The kids sack race

The falling over challenge

Mrs “Ive got control of Roy’s camera” Oranjball

Egg-catching (shame I didn’t take it a split second later…..splat)

Child Two doing the egg thing

I feel a right pillock

Tell you what, we’ll confuse them by pushing

Look at that athleticism

You will give me some

YOU WILL GIVE ME SOME – and I did

For the record I got 1 right on the whisky challenge which wasn’t bad considering I hadn’t stopped sneezing for 2 days and couldn’t smell or taste, bit embarassing not being able to tell that “Brand X” was actually Brand(y) then again no-one else did either & only one person got 2 right whilst many got none right but still enjoyed themselves

Oh I nearly forgot we WON for the first time ever Llanishen won the 3 village challenge the only question is did we win because half the team were elsewhere or despite half the team being elsewhere

We WON We WON Huzzah