For a few weeks I had been watching the ostensibly mixed touch football game. While there are women and men playing, the men have the ball about 80% of the time so in some ways it's like the under sevens, where those who have the ball see it as theirs. Still, people arrive on bikes, like this sweet one with the basket and leather seat, run about waving their  arms and the grass is a dozen shades of green, so the whole thing hums summer. 6 December 2010