TENNIS: Wimbledon end of week one

It's nice to have a day off as a viewer, although it's weird not to have the tennis on. But the coverage has somewhat blurred into one mass of 'That was worth a challenge!', 'Don't hit it there', the commentators praising an aspect of someone's game and them immediately the player making an error, talented teenagers who are on Centre Court instead of established favourites, but they're pretty (still, perhaps they are the future). And then Murray played a tight masterclass. I think the crowd were disappointed - I know the other player was frustrated - but I thought the ruthlessness and level of Murray's play was very promising. I'm tending to think that we'll see the top seeds through at the end in both the men and women's championships (Roddick is the fourth highest man left, isn't he?) But we'll see. Still, the prospect of Federer versus Murray meeting in the final and playing the kind of tennis they have been playing is very juicy. It doesn't have all the heft of the Nadal/Federer rivalry, but think of the shots!

REVIEW: Red Herrings Unlimited

To break up the blanket Wimbledon talk, here's a review of a book I read last week.

Red Herrings Unlimited: Winifred Norling
I'm too lazy to check the publishers, and I suspect no date was given).

Most of the Winifred Norling books, if not all, that I've read have been school stories of a certain ype. This is a mystery that a gang of village children solve, led by a girl named Lyntie, who came together to solve a previous mystery. All I could find out from Google was that Winifred Norling was a pseudonym of Winifred Mary Jakobsson (1905-1979).

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