'Jesus played cricket, manuscript suggests'

"The most amazing part of the story of the nine-year-old Jesus playing a form of cricket with the boys at the sea shore, is that he would go on playing the game on water, over the sea waves.''

Read the whole article here, at The Age.

Laneway Cricket

Laneway Cricket is starting at 5pm Friday, at Living Room.
More about Laneway Cricket here.

Christmas

On Thursday we had the Credo Christmas party, down by the Yarra.

Marcus ranted at us for a bit ...

... and poured water all over the table ...

... and gave little cricket bats to some guys from the cricket team.

Ali and Luke and Kate handed out presents ...

... and then we had lunch together.
We packed up at about three o'clock or something, and then headed to the Vic for our last staff drinks of the year.



Yesterday morning I cleaned the laneway, and then caught the train out east to visit my family.
I gave Adam a watermelon for Christmas:

Justin gave me a t-shirt, which I think is meant to make me look scary:

As you can see, I also ended up with some weird 'Christmassy' things that Mum had been given by people. (They should make good Crap Cringle presents.)
Grandma (Mum's mum) and Uncle Mike (Mum's brother) came over for lunch.
For tea we went to Uncle Ian (Dad's brother) and Aintie Jenny's house.
This is me and my brothers and our cousins and our cousins' partners (some people are missing though):

(Note that Adam is doing the Thai movie star pose, and that there are souvienir teaspoons on the wall.)
This is my dad and his brothers:

Credo Lions vs Sacred Heart

Instead of having lunch in Credo yesterday, we decided to go to Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy, and watch our cricket team play against Sacred Heart, and have a barbeque there. Sacred Heart are supposed to be Credo's archrivals, and this time they beat us.

Jackson took these:


(Sorry I haven't finished the G20 stuff yet. Been having malware problems. Hopefully will be able to finish it today.)

Cricket

Today I played cricket with a real cricket ball for the first time, with the Credo team. Charlesy taught me to bowl five minutes before we started fielding. We lost against Sacred Heart (St Kilda) in the morning and beat Geelong in the afternoon.