13 days to go
The weather has been very pleasant for the last few weeks. Very little rain and some really hot days. This morning I was woken up by rain thundering down on our skylight, and it was still dark even though it was time to get up. Wimbledon's here I thought.
I got in the car for my long drive to work. And it was cold. It has been T-shirt and shorts weather here for weeks but now I was freezing, even in my full three-piece suit and bowler hat. I turned the fan down to minimum to shut off the cold air from outside. I tilted the vents away from me. But still it was bloody cold. Then I noticed a light on on the dashboard. I switched off the AC and the sun came out. 
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Wimbledon Heroes |
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| Todays choice in our series of Wimbledon heroes through the years is Orinoco, one of the greatest never to win Wimbledon. I always thought he might have done it if he'd lost just a few pounds. |
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I assume you've worked it out by now. This time we're counting down the the Wimbledon finals. I'm not really a big tennis fan - well, it's all a tad too upper class for me. But when you live just a stone's throw from that prestigious high class location, what else can you do?
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Stone the crows |
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| A stone thrown by a young toff near the All-England tennis club was today caught by a passing bird and dropped some forty miles away |
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Todays's big news was the elimination of top seed Lleyton Hewitt in the first round. Given that he was playing the little-known Croatian Otherblokivic who is nearly 7 feet tall, it is no real surprise. With today's Wimbledon weather the serves must have been coming straight out of the clouds.
8:07:49 PM 
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