There was a wonderful and very moving tribute to Andy Murray on Centre Court last night. It was made all the more poignant because Sue Barker had been persuade back to lead it. He actually does have at least one more match to play, as he is playing mixed doubles with Emma.

I do like the colours in this picture and how the water seems to shimmer.


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Murphy's Law strikes again at Wimbledon.

Tomorrow we have two British chaps playing one another and two British lasses playing one another *sighs*

And the picture of the day. Not quite as openly dramatic as yesterday's but I think it's dramatic in its own way.


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I really can't quite compute it is July - July! Where have six months gone? Wimbledon has started; we have a General Election on Thursday and the weather is almost certainly going to get warmer. Not, I am relieved to say, as warm as some of my American friends have it ( Read more... )

Wimbledon begins today after missing last year due to Covid ( Read more... )

I'm not sure that will mean much to anyone outside of the UK and even within the UK it might not mean much to many today. Anyway ( Read more... )

Well yesterday's Ladies' final wasn't quite as close or exciting as I had hoped for. It began that way with both Garbine & Venus playing really well and both making some amazing shots and both making errors, Garbine in particularly was sending her forehand wide on many occasions and there were some great points. It had all the settings for a superb ( Read more... )

Yesterday's men's semi finals weren't, for me, particularly gripping. I watched all of Cilic vs. Querrey, but moved over to ladies' doubles after the first set of Federer vs. Berdych ( Read more... )

Unfortunately yesterday's ladies' semis didn't really live up to expectation. Also, whilst Garbine won her match (yay), sadly lost her match against Venus (sighs ( Read more... )

Well, the less said about yesterday the better ( Read more... )

Yesterday was, for me, a very good day ( Read more... )