Everything breaking again?

Had a pretty good weekend again - mowed the lawn with my hover mower which took a long time - the petrol one has broken down again. Sarah was stranded at Newland Park after hockey as her car broke down - starter motor we think. Ironic really as we were talking about bump starting diesel's the night before in the pub.

r & j love going to the swings in Chalfont St Giles - so went along there again which was good - a beautiful day.

Walked them both to nursery and school this morning (after we'd changed rebecca's clothes after spilling milk all down the original) I was amazed at the amount of dog poo along the way - what is wrong with people - there must have been plenty of kids who managed to trample through it on the way to school - disgusting.

Played hockey myself on Saturday for the 2/3's. It was only a friendly but I was rather appalled at the behaviour of one or two of our players. Constantly moaning about decisions (and they were invariably wrong in their opinion and the umpire was right) leading to a yellow card for constant verbal then the Captain refused to sign the opposition umpires card to say he'd umpired for level one recognition - I was gobsmacked - for a start it is not up to our captain to decide whether he was good enough and secondly he was absolutely fine as an umpire just our bunch of whingers decided he wasn't. Very poor form. It made me wonder why i'd bothered turning out for a game in North London at 4.30 - after working hard all week I want a competitive but enjoyable game of hockey - its fine if the opposition are winding themselves up - but not ourselves - in a friendly too. Absolutely absurd.