Seasonal

An interesting change has clearly occurred in thelast week or so, probably tied to the schools having gone back.

When Alison and I turned up to play tennis this morning, there was none of the usual jockeying for a court/people hanging around looking annoyed at anyone who started a new game/calls of "how long have you been on that court?" - there was us and one other pairing for most of the time we were playing. The tennis season, it seems, is over.

However, the teeny football season has clearly started - dozens of small boys were charging up and down the pitches in the park accompanied by the shouts, cheers, encouragements and occasional ridicule of all the football dads and more than a few football mums. These latter were right there at the upper volume end of the shouting and ridiculing range.

Somewhat off-putting, actually.

Posted on September 21, 2003 02:17 PM

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