Christmas is over - Boxing day to recover

Christmas is behind us, a relief to many, I would imagine the time for life to start to normalise again before New Year's eve and the Perth Cup on New Year's day next week. Ok, then after new year, back to normal life.

Boxing day is a day of recovery, boy did I need recovering after sampling an amazing 2005 Upper Reach reserve chardonnay, 2010 Upper Reach reserve shiraz, a handful of other excellent wines finishing off with a Wise Tokay. A day spent inside slouched on the lounge flicking between the Sydney to Hobart race start and Boxing Day test match at the MCG was always on the cards.

The traditional Boxing day test between Australia and England drew a record crowd of 90,831 people to the ground beating the record set in 1961 between Australia and the West Indies. With the Ashes returned to Australia, England are now 0-3 in a 5 test series are looking to return some pride to their performance although it didn't look that way early on with slow scoring and a general lack of intent.

The Australians named an unchanged team for the MCG test, England in apparent disarray made a number of changes due to retirements and poor form. The day was, as expected a great spectacle and I enjoyed very much getting over the ill effects of another successful family Christmas day.

The start of the Sydney to Hobart race, Australia's premier blue water event is on way too early for me, still, as a yachting enthusiast, I have to drag myself out of bed to witness the start of the great race.

I just couldn't imagine myself hanging off the railings of a maxi yacht headed to Hobart after over indulging on the big day, maybe it is time to get involved in more blue water races on the West Australian coast, that means showing a little more self restraint. All in all, Boxing day turned out just as I expected - pretty happy with that.