Oooooops!
Yesterday managed to narrowly avoid disfiguring and/or killing the five year old Miss no. 5 with a cricket ball hit from a good fifty yards away. She was fielding and i wanted to involve her a bit more so hit what I thought was a fairly innocuous ball in her general direction. As it bounced twice and then pitched up off a large divot it caught her clean in the middle of the face only to be followed by the pre scream silence that every parent knows means that their child is genuinely in distress and a torrent of crimson. After I had managed to stem the bleeding we looked like we had both been involved in some sort of savage blood ritual. Thankfully no obvious breaks or fractures or death. I am still in the doghouse though!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 23 Aug 2010, 12:06, 12 replies)

Shot!
Did you all have a good laugh about it once the realisation that no permanent damage had been done dawned?
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 12:41, closed)

I didn't think it politik.
I am sure we will look back on it in years to come along with my other misdemeanours!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 23 Aug 2010, 12:54, closed)

Probably best.
Mothers get so touchy about that sort of thing.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 12:57, closed)

Oh so true
After she had inspected the youngling (clearly my sayso wasn't good enough) she even went so far as to suggest that it wasn't an accident ! This might explain why she never offers to field if I am some sort of trained cricketing assassin.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 23 Aug 2010, 13:01, closed)

Oh, bollocks.
Hitting your kids in the face with cricket balls is character-building.
( Crystal Magnet Like a diamond geezer, but better, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 0:40, closed)

Character building, yes...
Brownie point winning, no.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:34, closed)

Playing cricket with a 5 year old and using a proper ball?
Reminds me of that 'competitive dad' sketch on some comedy show.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 13:13, closed)

Sort of...
I was actually playing with my eleven year old who does play competitively and is used to hardball but she insisted on joining in. She is a bit of an all action child (she rock climbs for crying out loud) but I only use tennis balls when she is batting! Despite my many failings I am not a complete muppet (partial yes, complete no!)

Oh and you mean the Fast Show.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Mon 23 Aug 2010, 13:17, closed)

That's the one.

(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 13:38, closed)

Cracking shot
We used cricket balls when growing up, leading to split eyebrows, split fingers, and multiple black eyes. Certainly improved our reflexes!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 9:33, closed)

The lad...
certainly knows when to duck when he is facing a decent bowler who pings them in at head height so it has worked out for him okay.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:35, closed)

Definitely
See if you can get him any training on a slip cradle, those things teach you to duck in a hurry!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:43, closed)

Isn't that...
used for hernia operations?
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 24 Aug 2010, 14:14, closed)

haha


This is a slip cradle, to help with catching
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 19:36, closed)