Onya Cyril!

In lieu of the traditional AFL Grand Final celebration - although what has become traditional is for me to mess up the dates so we're not actually there for the big party...

So preliminary final it was, and what a corker! The good guys won, but only just, and we'll have to hope they get it more together for next week. Because, while there may be no-one else besides my daughter and me supporting the Hawks, there will be plenty of Sydney haters in the room!

Anton put on a great spread, don't you love the cakes in team colours? We also had - jaffas and lemon sherbert (for Adelaide), and honeycomb and choc dipped lolly bananas (for Hawthorn). Plus pies at half time of course!

So good we were able to celebrate this final together at least...