Rajesh and I just celebrated our 25th game of tennis together. We are getting better and better and having some titanic rallys and wonderfully close matches. We are both utterly hooked. It's been so much fun.
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7 March 2025
2 November 2024
Playing tennis at Rajesh's new home
Rajesh's flat has a tennis court and we've started playing on Wednesday evening. I couldn't be more thrilled. I love tennis so much and have really missed playing since my prior tennis partner, Brendan, left Sydney several years ago.
After the tennis, we have been going to the pub for a meal. They do a Thai Beef salad that is absolutely to die for.
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21 February 2022
Table tennis with Chris
Chris and I have loads of fun playing table tennis. And we're getting quite good!
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2 November 2019
25 May 2017
Playing table tennis with Chris
There is a table tennis table under the Harbour Bridge and Chris and I have been making the most of it. So much fun.
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11 September 2014
25 April 2014
Volleyball on Camps Bay beach
Brendan and Eva were in Cape Town at the same time as me, so we organised a big game of volleyball on Camps Bay beach. All the old volleyball crowd came, and Russell and Heather joined us too. So much fun!! I impressed everyone with my power serve, great to find out I haven't lost it even after over 10 years of non use.
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14 April 2014
Two Ocean's Fun Run
I had every intention of keeping up with my little nephew on this 5 km fun run but after 5 minutes I realised that was going to be impossible! So I took it easy and enjoyed walking and chatting with Jo, punctuated by some occasional running. We didn't break any speed records, but thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere. And we had enough energy to sprint the last 100 metres to the finish in front of all the crowds!!
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28 October 2007
My new toy
Yes, we have now got a paddle ski to add to our beach toys. We took it to Dee Why Beach to try it out and had tons of fun. Its great to be back in a city with wonderful beaches. Didn't realise how much I missed it in the UK. Those English beaches just weren't the same!



Getting out to sea was pretty hard at times with big waves to get over !

It was not always graceful. Nothing like a mouthful of sea water!

PS Thanks to Ally for taking the photos
Getting out to sea was pretty hard at times with big waves to get over !
It was not always graceful. Nothing like a mouthful of sea water!
PS Thanks to Ally for taking the photos
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23 May 2005
Cheshire Triathlon
Doing a triathlon was a life goal for both of us. Despite our rather lax training, we did rather well. 250 metre swim, followed by a 20 km cycle and a 2.5 km run. A great sense of achievment afterwards - and I'm now motivated to attack a longer in a couple of months time. Colleen did it with us while Steve supported with gusto. He's going to do it next time too. A great day out.
Unwinding after. Silly devils through bread.
Our new Audi: Ally got to borrow an Audi A4 from work for the weekend so we drove up to Cheshire in style. We could rather get used to a car like this!
Unwinding after. Silly devils through bread.
Our new Audi: Ally got to borrow an Audi A4 from work for the weekend so we drove up to Cheshire in style. We could rather get used to a car like this!
5 February 2005
Serving up a storm
I had fun tonight. Went to the "tennis extravagana evening" at the gym. All the tennis enthusiasts (must have been over 50 of us!) at the gym met up with all the tennis coaches and we did fun exercises accross 9 courts.
I was a bit nervous about going because my tennis is still rather shaky and i'm struggling with the new technieques i've been taught. it's like being a beginner again. Still, i needn't have worried - we were at all levels and there was a friendly, jovial atmosphere about.
One thing i can do is serve. While i struggle to get my forearm balls to go anywhere but in the net or catapaulting to the roof, my serve seems to just go in. So i was delighted to discover that one of the exercises was "fastest serve competition" They had one of those speed monitor things that tells you how many miles an hour an hour your ball flew over the net. The winner was 95 miles an hour. I managed 87 miles an hour - which i was very chuffed with. I also managed to hit the hardest shot of my group (over 100 miles) but it didn't go in unfortunately!! As my tennis coach said "If i can manage to get those in all the time, i needn't worry to much about my faulty forearm.
Still, it's all coming on (i only stated a few weeks ago) and I'm having fun. Also meeting lots of great people. Ally's tennis is also coming on in leaps and bounds.
I was a bit nervous about going because my tennis is still rather shaky and i'm struggling with the new technieques i've been taught. it's like being a beginner again. Still, i needn't have worried - we were at all levels and there was a friendly, jovial atmosphere about.
One thing i can do is serve. While i struggle to get my forearm balls to go anywhere but in the net or catapaulting to the roof, my serve seems to just go in. So i was delighted to discover that one of the exercises was "fastest serve competition" They had one of those speed monitor things that tells you how many miles an hour an hour your ball flew over the net. The winner was 95 miles an hour. I managed 87 miles an hour - which i was very chuffed with. I also managed to hit the hardest shot of my group (over 100 miles) but it didn't go in unfortunately!! As my tennis coach said "If i can manage to get those in all the time, i needn't worry to much about my faulty forearm.
Still, it's all coming on (i only stated a few weeks ago) and I'm having fun. Also meeting lots of great people. Ally's tennis is also coming on in leaps and bounds.
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