Back home in Melbourne, arrived last night after a long drive from coastal northern NSW.

Lu Dao Festival, China April 2012.

Caught up with my folks for a few days at Tamworth and South West Rocks before coming home. On Sunday I had the pleasure of goal-umpiring a local under 15 AFL football game between Macleay Valley and Wauchope. It was a first for me & I now have a new found respect for goal umpires. 30 goals were scored in total as the kids pounded the goal area at each end. You’ve gotta watch that ball like a hawk, judge a goal or point (or ‘out on the full’), write down every score at each end – and the name & number of the player responsible. I’d be half-way writing & the ball would burst out of the centre on it’s way back. It was a surprisingly intense job.

Still working through video from the China tour – lots of file conversion. We’ll post the footage here soon (over the next week).

Checkya tomorrow.
Fires out.