Ball games and beetles
- 26 Mar 06, 02:16 AM
It is 32 degrees in Melbourne (sorry do I say that every day?) and I am off to spend the final day of action at the State Netball & Hockey Centre to watch the closing stages of the netball competition. The netball is a hot ticket in Melbourne and the form has worked out perfectly - world number four England play world number three Jamaica for bronze while world number one New Zealand play the world number two Australia in the gold medal match.
Although I have been up to the Centre for the past two days now, I have not really warmed to it. I had been warned about a shower of bugs that rains downs from the floodlights once darkness sets in. Of course, I had taken no heed until beetles began dropping from the sky at the end of day one on the hockey. I had to dash inside. Apparently, the beetles start of as the normal UK size, then ones sized like two-pence pieces fall, then huge ones as big as flattened golf balls start raining down. The BBC radio boys had to sit their with their collars tightly up, caps on and jackets zipped - it did not bother the locals officials, though.
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YOu guys have done an awesome job of covering the games on these blogs, they have been both informative and amusing, especially with all MAtt's road crossing problems, maybe he needs to have some lessons in his green cross code when he returns home.
I hope you have both had a great time and enjoyed the usual Melbourne institutions as well as the excitment of the games.
I think I will start having withdrawl symptoms when all the BRitish return to , well, Britain and I go back to work in Melbourne tomorrow and have to listen to work colleagues and the kids I teach telling me how great Australia is and how rubbish England are. OH, well just another day in the land of the long weekend!!
Enjoy
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