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Hey, Rusty!
Right.......I am (temporarily) awake........ it is good coffee!
No, I decided in favour of watching "The Voice...", as the Diamond League Highlights are being shown on BBC2 tomorrow., and I can watch them then (or later).
I already have the recorder set for both that and the British Team Trials for the World Championships.
And for the one -off Special about Wimbledon, hosted by Sue Barker , following all that on BBC1.
Sue talks to Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Pete Sampras, and Martina Navratilova to mark 90 years of the BBC's coverage of Wimbledon.
Are you not interested in seeing that?
You could record it to watch later.
Roger getting "old"?
I think he is 35......but let's face it, Roger at 35 is hopefully a much better player than many of these up and coming youngsters?!
I have my fingers firmly crossed !

My TV will be largely off for the next few weeks!

There is an article in today's Times colour supplement by a cyclist, I think he's just written a book. It seems it doesn't matter how good you are, you can't win unless you cheat. He started with blood transfusions and went on from there. How corrupt and essentially stupid is that? If all competitors do it, then the person who wins has the cleverest "doctor".

Hello, Elle!
No, I will not watch the BBC's anniversary programme.
I am not too keen on the BBC as an organisation.
Especially the News department.
But like most of us, I am lumbered with them.
Roger is favourite to win with Paddy P.
Then Nadal, then Murray.
Laura Robson is 500-1 to win the Ladies!

Hi, Rusty!
Uhmm........but I wasn't considering it as "supporting" the BBC, or sharing in an anniversary celebration, but rather as a chance to listen to some of my favourite tennis players?
I liked Pete Sampras , too.
I thought him a quiet unassuming brilliant player.
I shall watch!
I think the last thing Laura Robson won must have been the Silver Medal at the 2012 Olympics, when she played Mixed Doubles with Andy Murray?
I don't think I have heard much about her since then?
Yes, Roger first, Rafa (or Novak) second would do me nicely!
I'm still hoping for Jo to take the Ladies' title.



Hello, Ros!
Yes, I can understand your frustration when tennis is on all the time - and you do not like it!
But I shall wallow in it!
And hopefully thoroughly enjoy it!

Hello, Elle!
Yes, of course you must watch your programme.
It is me who dislikes the BBC.
So, I tend not to watch their programmes, especially News and Current Affairs.
Laura had a wrist injury for a while.
She may still have it.
I seem to remember a story that there was something in her wrist that they could not fix?
A permanently broken bone, or something.
I hope she wins on Monday, but who knows....

Good morning, Rusty!
What began as a very wet morning.......it was absolutely pouring down when I got up......is showing signs of becoming very pleasant now.
The sky is turning blue and the sun is beginning to shine!
I am drinking coffee ...... and going to do the "Everyman"!
Then a walk later towards lunchtime.
After that, watching the various Athletics events this afternoon.
A well -planned (self- indulgent) day!

Good morning, Elle,
A fine breezy day here!
I was out earlier to Blairgowrie (just 8 miles from the loch).
No sign of Laddie!
You have plenty athletics to occupy you today!
I have Le Tour on (huge crowds watching and it's free!)
Valverde has a broken kneecap after he crashed out yesterday.
Then the golf in evening time.
Hard to call the winner there.
The South Korean girls are going well.
Lexi is 5 off the lead, as is So Yeon Ryu (world no 1), Brooke Henderson just 3 off.
We shall see!
There is a good story about So Yeon Ryu.
She is South Korean, but has an Aussie caddie, who she has learnt a lot of English from.
But her caddy, Tom Watson, has a lot of salty Aussie expressions in his vocabulary, and So Yeon Ru has innocently picked them up, which makes her TV interviews quite interesting!

Good afternoon, Rusty!
It has turned into a beautiful day - very warm.......mid twenties - with blue sky and sunshine!
We have been to the local Country Park.
Back now ready for an afternoon of Athletics!
I have missed the prior Diamond League programme, but will watch it later.
World Championship Trials just now.......
You were out and about early this morning......
I think there is a Blairgowrie near Melbourne in Australia?
I am sure that I have heard one of my old flatmates (she hails from Melbourne) mention it.
What are you up to at the moment?
Is it still Le tour?
(Who has broken what this time?!)
I think I shall have an ice cream........

Hello, Elle,
Blairgowrie is around 16 miles north of me, not in Australia.
Le Tour lasts three weeks.
Yesterday was the first day.
Alejandro Valverde of Movistar has fractured a kneecap when he crashed yesterday.
He has had an operation to fix it, but is out of the Tour.
At the moment I am watching the race.
Earlier, they passed a large museum sort of place which was all about Neandertals.
Not sure what goes on in there, but I shall try to find out.

Never mind an ice cream! I think I could do with a cup of hot Viandox
(like bovril soup)!