Pitching up

It was glorious Spring day. The Gorse Fox decided it was time to get his legs out. Tracksuit was folded away and shorts were broken out. Today's footballers would be dazzled by the flash of pale skin between his socks and shorts. He would need all the help he could get, after nearly two weeks away.

The teams looked fairly well balance and the Gorse Fox played for the white-bibs in the first hour. We won the first game, then drew the following two games. The Gorse Fox played the last of those games in goal - and managed to keep a clean sheet. The first hour was quite enjoyable, but the time in goal cut the Gorse Fox's coverage by about 1.5 kilometres.

I the second hour we the Gorse Fox was playing for the blue bibs. Again we were fairly evenly balance, but despite the the blue-bibs managed two wins and draw. Again the Gorse Fox spent one game as goalkeeper, and again managed to keep a clean sheet.

Overall the Gorse Fox was about 2.5 kilometres down on his usual Tuesday coverage, so really must try to avoid playing in goal if he can. Having said that, two of his regular football friends comment how trim he was looking - well this wasn't from the exercise per se, but the last week has seen the Gorse Fox shed 6 or 7 pounds while under the weather.

Back home, he has spent much of the afternoon coding. There seem to be so many variations for which he has to find identifying features and programmatically extract them for onward processing. This could take quite some time, but it's worth doing as there were so many posts made over the years in Google+.