Game on

It was wet over night and the rain continued into the mid morning. Fortunately it had just stopped by the time the Gorse Fox had to play football.

Today was a bit of a change. Instead of the usual game within the club membership, we had a game against a team from Horsham. It was just a friendly, not a formal tournament or whatever. The Gorse Fox got togged up in the club's official kit and we headed out onto the pitch. We had two games going on - 30 minutes each. First we played their A-team, then swapped and played their B-team. Meanwhile our second team played the other.

It was a competitive game and they were well organised and quite frankly out-played us for much of the first game. Despite that, we managed to squeeze a 2-1 win. The second game was equally hard and they had a couple of tricky players. We scored first, but they quickly equalised from and impossible angle that left the Gorse Fox and the goalie looking at each other as if to say "how did he do that?". They scored again and it looked as if we were in trouble. The Gorse Fox was feeling cheeky and as his goalie rolled the ball out to him he looked up to the other end and realised their goalie was off his line. The Gorse Fox lofted the ball two thirds the length of the pitch and over the goalie's head. It was 2-2. The second half was hard fought, but the score remained the same. Not a bad morning's play.

Back home the Gorse Fox has been looking at mobile phone SIM plans. The Silver Vixen has reached her data limit a couple of times recently and we need to sort that out. The Vodafone plans seem very pricey... but we do know that Vodafone have good coverage here and in most of the places we go. He's decided to get a SIM from Giffgaff (who use the O2 network). He'll test it out in his phone and see what coverage we get, then swap the SIM for the Silver Vixen if it works out ok. It seems that with Giffgaff we could get 30 times the data allowance for less than half what it currently costs us for the Silver Vixen's plan (which fortunately is about to expire).