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, 1 reply)

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)