Boys at home on the weekend

Ev, on the way out

Aiden, afterwards, "why do we have to have the paparazzi in our face?"

Dylan, afterwards, laughing.

Kowloon Tsai Park - autumn evening

Aiden's team played at Kowloon Tsai park, on the top of a koppie in the middle of the old, dense peninsula.  The light was bad from an illumination point of view, definitely-would-struggle-playing-tennis sort of light. But it was very cool for colours, didn't drown out the fabulously smokey evening in the background.

Ev waiting for the kickoff.  Winter clothes, without winter shoes.  The light was fantastically weird, pink-purple sky, pitch green black under inadequate lights, and the city in the background.

Yau Lei

I love Yau Lei.  It's so Hong-Kong-outlying-island-run-down and grungy - very lived in - and I feel suddenly like I've been coming here forever.  Love it's hot and simple food.  Love the shimmering water, storm closing in on the way home. 

A taxing Sunday

The day started with an early football match, cool venue that I'd not been to before, Ev's team
now playing in the top division of their age-group.  The opposition, from China, were formidable
and Ev had a busy and heroic day in goals.  Sadly, they went down 3-2, but it was a cracking game.

Later on, after an unpleasantly brief lunch, he was back in action, this time playing
8th man for the Sai Kung Stingrays, in a three game tournament (here in action against the HK
Football Club).  But then, half way through the second game ... Houston, we have a problem.

Somewhere at the bottom of a maul (Ev is not too clear) he heard a cracking sound and
felt a very sharp pain in his neck.  He was clearly very sore.  The ref stopped the game the
medic came on, and determined that an ambulance had to be called, and Ev sent off to
hospital to have a scan.  Which is very sensible (the game itself is clearly not).

And is what then duly happened.

After an initial check up, the big orange ear-muffs came off , followed by some waiting for the
scan, which thankfully turned out to be all clear.  So The Pickle is being encouraged to take
less of a head-first approach to his rugby exploits, and we wait to see whether any physio etc
proves necessary.  Ho hum, and back to work for a more relaxing day on Monday.

Evan in the parking lot

Valentino about to hit the Saturday afternoon movies