Some people hate tennis, or don't understand it. I can understand their point of view, and during weeks such as the Australian Open or when I have the chance to watch the other Grand Slam events, I mainly have it as background viewing, but when it does catch my attention, it does so with avengeance.
And I really should have divided that paragraph into two, perhaps three sentences LOL. Anyways, example - some people wouldn't be enthralled with the prospect of a nine deuce game, but that was my engrossing point of tonight, with this Federer Mirnyi match, lots of drama in just one game. But I do have to agree with the anti tennis crowd about the whole scoring weirdness LOL.
Was looking at a map of London just before, from the Travel London site - I think it was a bit of that whale in the Thames story, a bit of looking at pictures of Piccadilly Circus, a bit of the Arsenal Everton match on BBC livescore that got me thinking of Old Blighty - and a map doesn't do justice to the city.
The whole sense of just being a couple of kays down the road, or across the river, and it being a totally different culture, still crammed in like sardines, but with hardly any buildings being over three stories. Or catching the tube from Leicester Square to Waterloo, switching to the main line to Croydon, or catching the bus from Elephant and Castle, or getting off at Thornton Heath, and seemingly being in five different cities on the same trip. Yeah, I miss the whole crazy place.
Or Earls Court or Hyde Park seeming to be foreign territory. Or trips to Twickenham feeling like the Odyssey, it seemingly taking so long to get out there :)
And yes, I will stop reminiscing about London now, I am sure it is easy to get sick of :)
Oh, the movie choice tomorrow will be either Underworld Evolution, The Producers or the Family Stone - V was telling me the Family Stone would probably be too girly for me - she had seen it with a friend today...
Later taters
Pauly
And I really should have divided that paragraph into two, perhaps three sentences LOL. Anyways, example - some people wouldn't be enthralled with the prospect of a nine deuce game, but that was my engrossing point of tonight, with this Federer Mirnyi match, lots of drama in just one game. But I do have to agree with the anti tennis crowd about the whole scoring weirdness LOL.
Was looking at a map of London just before, from the Travel London site - I think it was a bit of that whale in the Thames story, a bit of looking at pictures of Piccadilly Circus, a bit of the Arsenal Everton match on BBC livescore that got me thinking of Old Blighty - and a map doesn't do justice to the city.
The whole sense of just being a couple of kays down the road, or across the river, and it being a totally different culture, still crammed in like sardines, but with hardly any buildings being over three stories. Or catching the tube from Leicester Square to Waterloo, switching to the main line to Croydon, or catching the bus from Elephant and Castle, or getting off at Thornton Heath, and seemingly being in five different cities on the same trip. Yeah, I miss the whole crazy place.
Or Earls Court or Hyde Park seeming to be foreign territory. Or trips to Twickenham feeling like the Odyssey, it seemingly taking so long to get out there :)
And yes, I will stop reminiscing about London now, I am sure it is easy to get sick of :)
Oh, the movie choice tomorrow will be either Underworld Evolution, The Producers or the Family Stone - V was telling me the Family Stone would probably be too girly for me - she had seen it with a friend today...
Later taters
Pauly
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