Saturdays are always the same – Tennis at 9am, swimming at 11.30am, then usually library to swap books and (if it’s the last Saturday of the month) board games at the library.

Today was no difference. The main difference was that I did the tennis AND the swimming run as my wife stayed in bed (she usually does the tennis).

Either at tennis or at swimming I tend to bumped into people from work. In all fairness the local hospital is one of the biggest work providers therefore it’s not a surprise.

The weekly tennis session for our son is 1hr long and he is pretty good at it – making the county team which means additional monthly training with the county coaching team. On top of that we “had to” increase the tennis lessons in the week from 1 to 2 and he now plays the occasional tournament.

In his weekly sessions he gets quite cocky as he is one of the better players – if not the best player in that session.

During county training that is a different ball game as they are all good – some of the kids are from private schools who get extra training more or less on a daily basis.

Swimming today was great as for the first time he actually jumped into the water at the deep end and retrieved a sinky. Great effort.

After lunch we went to the library and swapped his books and audio books over. As the school has currently a reading challenge going he is very keen to get his minutes under his belt.

The target for the whole school is to read 10000 minutes in a week which means divided by the number of kids in the school that is roughly 6-7 minutes per child. The children also trying to get sponsors and the money raised goes to the school. We didn’t tell our son that – we just told him that the target is 10000 minutes for the whole school. Therefore for the last 6 days he clocked 205 minutes of reading. He also has asked our neighbors to chip in and donate some money.

After the library visit we went to the park and played tennis for about 1hr and by that point our son was just knackered.

Home, shower, dinner (home made lasagna which he helped preparing), first half of a movie, brushing his teeth and then bed.

During tennis I’ve had a missed phone call from the surgeon on-call with a text message following regarding some patients and referral systems etc. A quick phone call back and all sorted.

Daddies taxi services went everywhere today!!!!