Tennis, Olympics, Rio2016.
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It’s indicative of how very distracting my house is at the moment, that the most intellectually challenging activity I could cope with last night was analysing Juan Martín del Potro’s Twitter account (@delpotrojuan ( Read more... )

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Recently I enthused over the much-lauded Wimbledon semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro. At the end of the match Nole and Delpo had an epic hug which totally confirmed them as my tennis OTP.

Today, I discovered what they were saying to each other at the net that afternoon:

"At the net, Novak said to me:

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Middle son and I have been rewatching last year's Olympics Opening Ceremony on BBC3 - until the sound and picture both completely fell apart at 8:35, that is. It's still completely unwatchable 30 minutes later, which is really making me angry. What the hell is the point of all this "progress" if all it means is that the television takes pre-War ( Read more... )