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Good evening, Elle!
I had a walk along a long abandoned railway track.
(Does ^ "along a long" make sense?)
No more TV watching for me today.
Five hours this morning was way more than enough for one day, for me.
But, Le Tour starts tomorrow, and I am looking forward to that.
It has been a fine dry day here.
Where on earth does Wimbledon find all the rain?
There have been articles in the Telegraph about the Nike nightie!
Miss Panic Room refuses to wear it.
Type "Nike nightie" in to your search box for the articles.
Any good matches this evening?

Hi, Rusty!
A beautiful evening here!
I'm guilty, too, of watching a lot of television today - the Commemoration Service this morning - and tennis this afternoon and evening (altho the tennis has been limited due to the rain in Wimbledon!)
Some excellent matches.....
Wawrinka went out to Del Potro - an incredible match! Every point well fought for!
Your man Nick Kyrgios beat Dustin Brown - another well fought match.
(You are still in to win your bet on Nick and Lucie so far!)
And the most incredible of all.......the "panic room lady" nearly lost to an American, Christina McHale.
Serena did win, but only just!
Tsonga is also through.
At the moment, I am watching Roger Federer starting to play a Brit, Daniel Evans, on Centre Court.
Novak is playing on Court One and has lost the first set to his opponent.
What a sad story that was about the Sutton family.
Yes, I know Suttons seeds - they are still around today!

Rusty!
Emergency postscript....
Novak Djokovic has lost the first two sets to Querry.....and now they are rained off.....
(still sunshining here!).

Hello, Elle!
I was cheering Miss McHale!
I do not not know Novak's opponent?
Very sad about the Suttons.
I imagine we have all purchased a packet of Sutton's Seeds at some time!
It was the eldest son who survived.
I think the Army insisted he went home, like Saving Private Ryan.
I really took to Richard van Emden on the programme.
Pity Lyn MacDonald was not on, but I have always liked Shirley Williams and I read her Mother's book, "Anthem for Doomed Youth", I think it was.
Mr van Emden has written a book called "Tommy's Ark" which is about the soldiers and their animals in the Great War.
I am tempted!

Hey, Rusty!
Yes, I was cheering Christina McHale , too - it's a wonder she wasn't deafened!
I think the rain came just in time to "save" Novak..... hopefully he will be more on form tomorrow!
(I know you don't like him, though)
Sam Querry is American and aged 28, but that is all I know about him.
Tennis is now over for the day - Roger dispatched Daniel Evans pretty quickly.
Now, you are a tad confused here..........
Shirley Williams is the daughter of Vera Brittain, who wrote "Testament of Youth and then later "Testament of Experience".
I think "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is a poem by Wilfred Owen.
"Tommy's Ark" sounds just up my street? I think I would enjoy reading that....providing of course that nothing bad happened to the animals?
I've just looked it up in "Goodreads" and this is what it says......
'Some of the stories are very powerful, such as the one of the Germans sending a dog back to the British with the message "Why can't we make peace?".'
Raining very heavily here now!

Hello, Elle!
Yes, I am completely and utterly wrong!
Sorry!
I knew there was a Youth in the title but that is no excuse!
May I plead a senior moment?
Well, Elle, I would imagine bad things did happen to some of the animals.
Especially the horses.
It gets good reviews on Amazon, too.
Still dry here.
These chicks are as big as their mother now!

"Anthem for Doomed Youth" is very powerful stuff-

What passing bells for those who die like cattle?
"Dulce et Decorum est" is even more so.

I looked up the nighties. What rubbish dresses for tennis!

PS.
Elle, I have just ordered Tommy's Ark.
One penny from Amazon!

Hello, Rosalind!
Yes the Nike nighties are awful.
Lot of the girls who have contracts with Nike do not like them.

I have always found 'disabled' by Wilfred Owen very poignant. And 'break of day in the trenches' by Isaac Rosenberg. Also 'the strange meeting' by Owen.