Life Trove

Growing up, my mother was the silent, steady heartbeat of my rugby career. I have the most heart-warming memories of her standing in the pou...

During the years Russell and I were housemates at Willow Road, the house became a laboratory for high-stakes, low-budget adrenaline. We didn...

In my early school days, I was the quintessential nerd—more likely to be found in the library than on the rugby pitch. My athletic career st...

Rajesh and I just celebrated our 25th game of tennis together. We are getting better and better and having some titanic rallys and wonderful...

Rajesh's new flat has a tennis court and we've started playing on Wednesday evening. I couldn't be more thrilled. I love tennis ...

Chris and I have loads of fun playing table tennis. And we're getting quite good!  

Great fun with lots of laughs.

There is a table tennis table under the Harbour Bridge and Chris and I have been making the most of it.  So much fun.

Brendan and I played tennis again today.  We're so evenly matched and had a great titanic battle.  So much fun.  And lovely in the suns...

Brendan and Eva were in Cape Town at the same time as me, so we organised a big game of volleyball on Camps Bay beach.  All the old volleyb...

I had every intention of keeping up with my little nephew on this 5 km fun run but after 5 minutes I realised that was going to be impossib...

Yes, we have now got a paddle ski to add to our beach toys. We took it to Dee Why Beach to try it out and had tons of fun. Its great to be...

Doing a triathlon was a life goal for both of us. Despite our rather lax training, we did rather well. 250 metre swim, followed by a 20 km c...

I had fun tonight. Went to the "tennis extravagana evening" at the gym. All the tennis enthusiasts (must have been over 50 of us...

Jenny Mallet's barefoot brigade (aged 6). My first match (against Rondebosch).  Getting under the ruck. Apparently I sucked my thumb, mu...