Now, more than ever ladies, your country needs you!



 Do you recognise this man? Ok, he may have less clothes on than usual, but the goatee is a giveaway isn't it? Shame on you if you don't! Call yourself a patriotic woman?!

It's none other than the beautiful Lucas Neill - captain of the Socceroos. On Tuesday night he will be on display once again leading our team onto the park to do battle with Iraq in order to win a spot in the Soccer World Cup in Brazil next year.

I am a fan of watching good looking men display skill and athleticism on a soccer field and I'm not ashamed to say it. There's something about their youthfulness, their boyish charm that makes me look forward to getting up at 2am to watch them pass the ball with precision, drive for a goal, then roll on the ground in mock pain. The opposition that is, not our boys. Our boys are as tough as they are good looking.

Even the panel disecting the game have a certain worldly good looks. (Does any man do silver hair better than Craig Foster?). And the calling of the game ain't bad either. Last world cup I developed a late night relationship with Simon Hill - commentator extraordinaire. Here's what I thought then:

No one else can do it like Simon. To listen to Simon call the soccer is the high, without the drugs; the buzz, without the side effects. When he says electric, I feel it. When he calls it a blistering start, I blister. He tells it like it is, and he knows I want to hear it.

He’s witty and he’s clever and that accent is all class (when he says class it rhymes with ass). Listen for the way he wraps his tongue around those foreign names. He never falters, and I like a man who knows his Saviola from his Guardado (those kind of sweet nothings can drive a woman wild!). When he talks of the fulcrum of the Argentine team, I know exactly where it is. And don’t dare think he’d say Argenteen like the rest of those Philistines- its Argentine (rhymes with nine).

I might have been suffering from a few late nights when I wrote that, but the point is still the same: Your country needs you. Now is the time to rise up and declare that you are interested in watching good looking men run around in shorts (look out for a glistening bare chest now and then too!). Or you can just say you have a sudden passion for soccer. Either way is fine. Tuesday SBS 7.30pm.

lucasneill.com

Lucas says thank you. :)
SM

Oahu

Early morning Waikiki Surfers

Hi Surfermums,

Was too busy on Oahu to post, so here's a picture of two surfermums paying homage to the Duke after an early morning surf... at Waikiki.  The next day the surf was bigger and we had other tours booked so I had to leave the surfing to the Grommie (thanks for the loan of the board Glen). I had fun surfing in the warm water in a bikini, we had to leave it as we hadn't had breakfast and were getting cold in the early morning breeze (I did see people paddling out to the break at 5.00 am and in the evening twilight!...

Also had a tour of Pearl Harbour (Arizona memorial, USS Missouri etc), Hiked up Diamond Head, ate Malasadas (just like a jam doughnut but instead of jam had a chocolate filling - great breakfast after a surf), and also hit the shops......great trip - see you in the surf!

Mighty Mo's Big Guns

More on Maui

Hi surfermums. Turtles, snorkeling, volcanos, black sand beaches,
Good food, waterfalls, sunsets & beer, warm seas. .. But surf. .. Well it will have to be SUP...
So relaxing accept driving on the other side of the road. . Freaking me out! !!!
Only photos on phone are ones that aren't in the water so apologies for that but will endeavor to get some up on bog. . Here I am 3000m+ above sea level and a sunset. And another beer. .
Love to all,

have to prey Ohau has surf. ..

Day 1 Maui

Ok surfer mums have arrived after a long overnight flight with crying babies. ... Then a connecting flight to Maui.   So we have a hire car at the unit now we refuse to use the US term that starts with a C  and ends with an O.. have now finished Thai takeaway with a local beer. .see pic...More local beers tomorrow. . Oh saw first turtle at Napali Beach this arvo whilst washing of travel dust. . Now this surfer mum needs all her beauty sleep. .. nite nite...xo

Cheers!

Husband and I had a wedding anniversary today. So, to celebrate I went surfing with some husbands of surfermums!

Adam, Michael and I were having a blast out at the reef this morning - it was a hoot! Husband eventually came back to pick me up after surfing Bills Bank up at Seashells. And no, he didn't name the bank himself - he's been plugging away on that particular bank for weeks, and now its been discovered by Tony, Poddy and the crew up there.

Anyway, it was some sort of symmetry designed to make me appreciate what nice husbands the MOB has. Cheers fellas.

SM

P.S. Which two surfermums are going to India in July? Watch this space...

Cheap thrills

I was going to write something profound to you on Mother's Day, but since I had technological problems and have now missed the boat, I will tell you this: I became a  trainspotter yesterday.

Husband inspired the whole thing while we were in Taree waiting to pick up Molly. He heard a toot and declared "That's a steam train!" How the hell a Coogee boy knows a steam train from a snowmobile I do not know. Needles to say, he did a quick diversion to the railway crossing and whole family sat and waited for the train to pass. It gave us an almighty "whooo-woot!" as it went by - the sound of it reverberated through the air like when you stand up close to the speakers at an AC/DC concert (as if I ever went to see AC/DC!!) I ran out into the traffic and took this photo as it whizzed passed:

Us beach gals don't see much of this kinda thing so of course we hightailed it to Wingham train station to see it again! (Actually we were going there anyway, my parents live near the train station, and it was Mothers Day).

You can hear the damn thing coming a mile away so all the kids ran out to see it whiz by. Surferboy was meant to take an awesome front-on photo for me but only got this measly one as it approached:

Just when we were all settling down with a tummy full of Walnut Torte with Maple cream (!), Husband heard another toot! and we were off and running, desperate now to get the elusive head-on shot. In our panic, the dog ran out the front gate with us, and I had visions of him going under the steam train (which wouldn't look good for the head-on shot), so guess who had to catch him, then do a 100m sprint that woulda seen me make the Australian sprint team for the next Olympics? You guessed it, Yours Truly.

Steam and smoke was hissing out everywhere by the time I got there and, dang it! all I got was this:

But you shoulda seen all the people hanging out the windows with big dopey smiles on their faces like they having the time of their lives! Amazing, I know! Next year, thats me.

SM
Now for the important stuff. This is the Walnut Torte with Maple cream. Hope you had a great (surfer)mums day!

Drifters

 I saw the surf movie Drift today – a classic Aussie surf movie if ever there was one. And set in the 70’s too – even better! All those flares, all that long hair, and best of all those rough and ready blokey types who love a good punch up nearly as much as they love their mum. I liked it a lot. Nice to see home grown nostalgia in surfing, alongside a wholesome lead character who can double as Superman’s blonde brother (doncha love a super hero chin!)

I worried about the strong themes in this movie but Molly reassured me that it was just like the kids movie Surf’s Up. You know, with the penguins? There are some weird correlations there… the hippie guy, his female friend… Obviously only a small section of the population who have seen both movies will know what I mean. (Think about it you people!). But no-one dies in Surf’s Up.





That's Grommie catching a big one on the Point

 Still on the home grown theme, I noticed a couple of surfermums out at the Point today alongside (my) Surferboy and a boogie boarder. Thank you ladies. We all know it takes a village to raise a child. And to teach em to surf! Cheers.

Couldn't help but put this photo on the blog. It's every surfermums housework nightmare - whoops, wrong board! 

I think she's in the Iron Woman event.



SM