Twinkleham
"He loves rugger," she said. "In fact he's going to a match today in Twinkleham..."
"Twickenham," we suggested.
"Yeah, well," she said, "I don't know anything about rugger."
And then, several hours later- after the dinner and the playing with babies and the catching up with news- we took a wrong turning on our way home and, by one of those (probably) meaningless freaks of synchronicity- found ourselves driving through a stretch of London we'd never visited before. First Kew, then Richmond- then down a road where people in bunches that turned into crowds all seemed to be converging on a single place. What was the draw? Why the match between Leicester and Saracens at Twinkleham Twickenham- and somewhere among them, no doubt, was the chap our granddaughter had been telling us about....
"Twickenham," we suggested.
"Yeah, well," she said, "I don't know anything about rugger."
And then, several hours later- after the dinner and the playing with babies and the catching up with news- we took a wrong turning on our way home and, by one of those (probably) meaningless freaks of synchronicity- found ourselves driving through a stretch of London we'd never visited before. First Kew, then Richmond- then down a road where people in bunches that turned into crowds all seemed to be converging on a single place. What was the draw? Why the match between Leicester and Saracens at Twinkleham Twickenham- and somewhere among them, no doubt, was the chap our granddaughter had been telling us about....