Round 13 - Beautiful Surprise

Posted on July 2, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized

Sometimes life just throws up unexpected pleasures. Like finding out that your income tax return is higher than you thought it would be. Events that have an untarnished shine to them. Chipping the ball into the hole from miles away. Events that bring an involuntary grin across the entire width of your face. Beating Collingwood on Sunday is about the pinnacle of this genre of happenings.

I missed all bar the final 5 minutes of the game a fortnight ago, due to travelling interstate - and was glad to have done so. By even the most optimistic observers it was a deplorable performance. So very, very little hope was held out for this game. Wet weather at least meant we were unlikely to go down by more than 100 points. I didn’t even worry about catching the game, figuring it would be far more beneficial to be playing charades and boggle with the young adults rather than put myself through that level of trauma.

I should never have doubted. (more…)

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