He's only eight so is playing two years up which reflects his ability. As I sat in the sunshine and watched, I couldn't help but muse on how much more support there is for youngsters wanting to play sport than when I was eight in 1960.
I have spoken often and at length (probably at too much length) about my love of football, cricket and tennis as I was growing up. But we never had any adult to organise us into a team, let alone give us the chance to join leagues and play other clubs.
So really that makes a lie of the all too often cries of "there's never anything to do." If you live in Hethersett or Wymondham there are football teams to play for from the age of about five and cricket teams to play for when you aren't much older than that. I know not every youngster enjoys or wants to play sport but there are plenty of other things to do as well.
I would have loved as an eight year old to have played for organised football and cricket teams - but they just didn't exist. We were left just to play turn up and play games with mates. We tried at one point to organise our own football team but they wouldn't let us play on the park pitch unless we had an adult to organise us - and that person just didn't exist.
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The older I get the more I enjoy doing the things I enjoy doing - and that's a rather twisted sentence.
Retirement brings with it the ability to make more life choices without work getting in the way - although I still do some freelance work.
And Lockdown has made it easier to see the choices. Do I really want to do A and B when I could be doing C and D?
So I'm going to make a list of the things I want to do less of and the things I want to do more of as a kind of blueprint for the future.