TENNIS: Queen's/OVERVIEW: Fun Next Door
Jun. 13th, 2010 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllI caught a few games midweek: Roddick playing well one day; the next, Nadal having to fight against a player who could be very good (Istomin) if he plays to that standard consistently. I half-watched first part of that very weird match between Murray and Fish. And then I didn’t watch the tennis and discovered that the big names had all followed Roddick, plus Djokovic. It says it all that when I net had an opportunity to watch tennis ‘on the red button’ it was soon to be dropped for Formula 1. There was the option of watching it online, of course, but I looked at the match-up of Schuettler and Sela and couldn’t be bothered. So, perhaps the Beeb was right to drop the tennis after all. But then, I certainly didn’t want to watch the formula 1 racing, so perhaps not.
I saw the semi-finals with moderate interest (at least Fish versus Lopez was good-looking) but was more passionate in pleading with John Inverdale not to mention the football and being surprised at Querry's age, because he has seemed to be around for longer. I couldn't watch the final and wasn't distraught.
The first time I saw the advert for Wimbeldon, it was quite charming, but not so much the second. I fear that it'll get on my nerves over the next few days.
Also over the weekend, I read Fun Next Door by Freda M. Hunt, and it was quite fun. I felt as if it was a sequel (but the book didn't have those useful footnotes children's series have referring you to the title). Ann is living with strict and older relatives in the charmingly named village of Duckpuddle because her mother is sick. Fortunately for her, their neighbours, the Dakers, have children her age and run a school. At Pinetops, Ann does have the aforementioned fun (picnics turn into explorations and Ann becomes a budding ornithologist and also a cat-owner). What was most interesting is that one of the children living next door is Apple (short for Applegard!) the son of a famous Negro singer. The writer emphasises his Americaness more than his skin colour. My copy is from 1958 and it was first published in April 1953.
I saw the semi-finals with moderate interest (at least Fish versus Lopez was good-looking) but was more passionate in pleading with John Inverdale not to mention the football and being surprised at Querry's age, because he has seemed to be around for longer. I couldn't watch the final and wasn't distraught.
The first time I saw the advert for Wimbeldon, it was quite charming, but not so much the second. I fear that it'll get on my nerves over the next few days.
Also over the weekend, I read Fun Next Door by Freda M. Hunt, and it was quite fun. I felt as if it was a sequel (but the book didn't have those useful footnotes children's series have referring you to the title). Ann is living with strict and older relatives in the charmingly named village of Duckpuddle because her mother is sick. Fortunately for her, their neighbours, the Dakers, have children her age and run a school. At Pinetops, Ann does have the aforementioned fun (picnics turn into explorations and Ann becomes a budding ornithologist and also a cat-owner). What was most interesting is that one of the children living next door is Apple (short for Applegard!) the son of a famous Negro singer. The writer emphasises his Americaness more than his skin colour. My copy is from 1958 and it was first published in April 1953.
