Sunday, August 31, 2014

The rain continues, but the sun comes out for football!

29 Aug 2014 - Another week of crazy rain! But again, the some comes out just in time for football :) A lot of the field was still too soggy and muddy so we were reduced to a small patch of grass against the wall. Alex nearly impaled himself when falling on the ground near the wall as it was covered in branches! And there were lots of balls bounced off the wall.. amazed no-one got hurt :)

A little narrow but at least it's dry grass!

bank crew rushing back to work

the Koreans get to keep playing.. jealous!

Monday, August 25, 2014

The sun comes out in time for Friday football!

22 Aug 2014 - It was a crazy, crazy week of rain! But it miraculously cleared up to a beautiful sunny day in time for Friday football! What a fun muddy game! Fun for all of us except Kunal. I thought he must have got held up at work as he didn't come but when I got back to work he sent me this:

"i played alone with Jesse & Tom was so sad"

Eep! Turns out they were late and didn't find us.... poor Kunal! :(

The 'normal' pitch...

Found a small patch of grass though!

Oh wait... watch out for the mud on the side there.


This truck nearly drove into our field...



I think these 2 guys will remember this moment :)


Tomas in action!

That guy on the right was one of a few spectators we had this week! As you can see he thought it was a thrilling match.

Group photo!

Group photo 2! The closest we'll get to a smile from Dave.. he was on my team after all!

See how happy everyone looks back at the office... 

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Our ball escapes being run over 3 times!

15 Aug 2014 - There was rain and cold weather this week - but it cleared up nicely for Friday Football! We were stuck on the small patch of grass at the edge and the ball nearly got run over 3 times! Will have to position the goals better next week :) And yes... the red team got smashed! No wonder Dave never wants to be on my team...

Let the game begin!

Michael J is back from being sick

Same with Dave!

There's that cross again... but this time right at Michael...

Time delay shot

Retrieving the ball from across the road... living life on the edge in the name of football. You can see the ball mid-flight crossing the road!

...another long ball.. can you all see the ball? Look in the trees, above Vlad!

What's Vlad doing? He's either posing or telling us that we're losing by 10 goals?!?

Found a new vantage point!

Game over.. Vlad's not happy with me :)

Group photo! Wait.. who let HER in this time?!?! :)

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Welcome back Tomas and Dima!

08 Aug 2014 - Yay! Tomas and Dima are back which is great! I've missed being skinned by Tomas! :)
The rain threatened to start but it managed to hold off so the weather was great!

I was having too much fun to take any in-game photos this week - here's a photo after... Dima and Kunal already went back to work, Nicky is in the background changing his shoes so you can't see him this time. And where's Mos? He's in Thailand enjoying day 2 of being a dad! Congratulations!!

Has anyone seen our football bag? The nice new, clean white bag that I brought? It's missing already....

Grey clouds in the background.. but no rain for our great game!
Congratulations Mos!!!

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Another sunny day for football

01 Aug 2014 - Another nice sunny day for football! Not too many photos as the camera person was late to the game! Look closely at the post-match photo... awesome poses! Next week Tomas and Dima are back - hooray!

Game shot

Dave's ball

Where's that ball gone to?

Checkout the hooligans on the right!

Changing shoes after the game