Hockey debut!

Late on Friday evening my old buddy Nick and his girlfriend Kate came down to visit my new place in Bristol for a nice catch up and one or two drinks. Just before we headed up to Oxfordshire on Saturday morning, we managed to fit in a rather gorgeous mocha at the lovely Bar Chocolat in Clifton Village! Utterly irresistable!

We watched Nick and his brother play hockey before we ended up in Oxford on Saturday night for our school buddy Tom's birthday at Po Na Na and like last year, this was again a great night out!

On Sunday I was expecting to watch the second hockey game of the weekend with Nick and his girlfriend turning out for his sister's hockey team, when having only ten players meant that my rather limited hockey skills were needed!

So after many years plying my trade as a footballer, arguably unsuccessfully(!), I finally checked out the game of hockey and of all places, in goal!

I have to say that although initially I wasn't that enthusiastic about having quite hard hockey balls being smacked towards me, I rather enjoyed it!



In fact, after a few epic saves I was asked if I could come back the weekend after!!