Wavin' The Flag

Best song of the moment. As I have said before, and after just witnessing a fantastic refereeing decision in the match between the hosts South Africa and Uruguay and accidentally calling Howard Webb earlier whilst he was refereeing his match between Spain and Switzerland, I am ... in a minute ... going to speak refereeing. (He didn't answer clearly..)

First however, I'm going to speak cricket. After returning from possibly the most boring match I've ever had the misfortune to play in, against a village team in the middle of nowhere, full of bald fat 50 year olds and their 12 year old sons, I was greeted when I came home to my Dad blowing my own vuvuzela in my face before I let him know I had used it as a butt-scratcher just hours earlier to his own anger. Not my fault. I didn't really. This weekend brings the end of my reign as captain of Bedford CC Saturday XI, and I have a good team at my disposal and with good weather forecast, I am upbeat and looking forward to it.

Ok, refereeing. I have been pondering lately on my decision to go for promotion this season via the Beds Saturday league. I'm not so certain. I have to complete 20 matches from September to March, which inclues the notoriously snowy months of January and February and, to be completely honest, I'm not so certain I'll have the hunger and desire to do it. To be completely honest, I'm not so certain I'll have the hunger and desire to referee at all. It's a shame, but the truth hurts. Maybe it's my thinking at the moment, because it's summer and I have cricket to concentrate on, but I was starting to think it at the back end of last season.. Even before I applied for promotion, but I dismissed it as end of season sadness. But even during the off-season, when I should be raring to go and waiting for the season to start with anticipation and hunger, I just ... haven't.. I'm not sure what to do, help me..

Still, I've got a few months to ponder that decision before I make a final one, but I feel I've got a lot of thinking to do and if I am going to go for it, I need to get my head in the right place and really go for it. Would be a good achievement. But, as is usually the case for me, do I really want it enough? That answer at the moment, I think, is a no.

Cya x

P.S I'm leaving you early, because I need some croissants.