Steve Sharp and the curse of the deathly Hardtail

Harry Potter has hit the cinemas again with our hero fighting off more demons and their evil spells. Our spiritual leader Steve has been fighting a demon of his own lately. Keen readers of this blog might recall a nasty incident involving Steve and a log at One Tree Hill (blog date Feb 2010). Well its happened again and just like last time Steve was riding his Scott Hardtail when he got into trouble. A group of us including Steve's son Alexander were riding the Fastaways trail and the conditions were quite slippery due to the high rainfall Bendigo has experienced this year. Brett, Alexander and I managed to safely ride over a fallen log which had a fairly big puddle on the other side of it. I had just finished saying to Brett that it reminded me of the water jump they have in Horse Riding and that I hoped everyone made it over safely when we heard a crash behind us. We backtracked to find Steve off his bike and covered in mud down the entire right side of his body. The damn Hardtail had failed him again but at least there was no blood spilt this time.  The only reason Steve was riding it was because he had let Alexander loose on the Specialized so you could really say it was Alexander's fault that Steve fell off.

Maybe Steve needs to try the latest Harry Potter bicycle

As it turns out that wasnt the only trouble Alexander caused Steve that week. The Sharp boys decided that Alexander should get a tattoo for his 18th Birthday. It would be a way to cement the  father/son bond with Alexander getting some ink done to compliment his Dad's old school tattoo.

Now tattoos are pretty common these days and Alexander was 18 so he didnt officially need his Mum and Dad's permission so with Steve supplying the cash the boys headed off to turn Alexander into a man. The new tattoo was a work of art and the boys were very pleased with themselves but there was one loose end they left undone. To all the young men out there please remember that if you dont tell your Mum before you get it done make sure you tell her before some one else does.

Unfortunately Alexander's Mum found out about the tattoo at a school function when a parent of one of Alexander's friends asked her what she thought of her son's tattoo. How did they know about it you may well ask? Well Alexander was so pleased with his tattoo he put the news up on Facebook to let all his mates in on the news.