feather_ghyll: Tennis ball caught up at mid net's length with text reading 15 - love (Anyone for tennis?)
I’m sorry, I’ve fallen behind on posting because I’ve been trying to catch up on the gymnastics.

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feather_ghyll: Tennis ball caught up at mid net's length with text reading 15 - love (Anyone for tennis?)
I have been watching the Olympics, but to a much lesser degree than was the case in 2012, because of the time difference. It took me a little while to realise that I could catch some of the sports – there had been so much emphasis on how the premium athletics would be on in the wee small hours.

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Styx and Stones: Carola Dunn

This is an ultimately breezy mystery for Daisy to solve (with help) and was most interesting for me because of Read more... )
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Rangers and Strangers and Other Stories: Ethel Talbot Nelson

I didn't realise until opening this book to read it that it was a collection of short stories, rather than one book-length story. The title of the collection comes from the first and longest story, and is, in a way misleading, because Read more... )
feather_ghyll: Tennis ball caught up at mid net's length with text reading 15 - love (Anyone for tennis?)
I was watching the some of the men's team competition in the world gymnastic championships last night in lieu of the tennis. Well, I say watching it, but it was something less attentive than that. The language is very technical to someone who only achieved something that fit the definition of 'cartwheel' one in five tries. On a good day.

90 minutes was all we got, again. Sky was showing live tennis. I'm too dispirited to look, but I suspect it'll be the same case today. So all I got to see was titbits of Federer vs. Roddick. Or the sharp ends of sets. Poor Roddick, he played well, and perhaps in the first two sets, it was only a few points that distinguished them, but Federer is a better player than him is a better player than him is a better player than him. Reference was made to the Australian Open dismantling. Well, Federer didn't need to do that here. Roddick is the younger though, didn't he peak earlier?

In lighter vein, I wonder if the both had a 'he decided to wear black too?' moment when they stepped on the court/saw each other first? Davydenko has had a good run, but his previous record against Federer looks terrible.

The Venus vs. Jankovic match looked all over the place, but I'm sure it would have been entertaining to watch properly. I wanted Jankovic to win, I don't like the Willamses, though I'm growing to respect them more and more.

Still, the despairing question of why can't British Eurosport show the doubles or something arises? Is it because of the scheduling matches in the middle of the night thing? (Which still strikes me as crazy and unfair, expecting players and umpires to perform at that time when they're used to playing in the daytime and expecting the viewers to keep up. Silly.)

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