Cold

I've just about thawed out from Sunday. Something like five hours standing or sitting in the cold watching three games of rugby (only one of them a victory to make things worse). Tonight I have two hours standing out at training. As far as I know nobody has researched the shortening of parental life-expectancy due to freezing on touchlines all winter.

Still, I hope it will all be worthwhile in years to come when my kids are fit, sporty and successful. I will look at the parents of fat, drug ravaged, vegetarian, gluesniffers and tell themthey should have got cold more often.

Or if it doesn't quite work out like that I will wonder if all the frostbite was worth it.