Today I made my annual pilgrimage to The Championships at Wimbledon, this being my 32nd consecutive year of attending this festival of tennis. I purchased a £20 ground admission ticket and plonked myself on Court 2 for the day. First on the tennis menu was a Gentleman's Senior Invitation Doubles match involving the immensely talented and very funny Mansour Bahrami, partnered this year by Patrick McEnroe. They were up against Rick Leach and Cedric Pioline. What...

Today I was back in Nottingham, this time for the final of the ATP Aegon Open. In a repeat of when I was here a couple of weeks ago, play was due to start at 12 with the doubles final and, right on cue at 12 the heavens opened. There had been plenty of warning as the sound of thunder has been reverberating for the previous 20 minutes. Fortunately it only lasted about 40 minutes. At 1.15, the doubles final between the number 1 seeds, Croatian Ivan Dodig with Bra...

This afternoon I braved the M5 traffic to travel to Birmingham and stopped at a very busy Handmade Burger Company for the usual meal. Then it was too the O2 Academy to see Grimes, supported by HANA. HANA is an American singer/songwriter and producer who performs alone on stage with a bank of programmed electronic wizardry plus her stunning vocals. Will check out her album. Grimes is Canadian singer/songwriter and producer, Claire Boucher. Her music is multi la...

Tonight, with a couple of friends, I went to Cheltenham Town Hall to see comedian Sara Pascoe. With no support, her set lasted just under a couple of hours. She comes across as having low self confidence but she shouldn't worry as she's clearly both funny and intelligent. Would definitely see her again.

Today I took a trip to Nottingham for the final of the WTA International Aegon Open at the Nottingham Tennis Season. I arrived in good time for an exhibition doubles match scheduled to start at Noon involving Jeremy Bates & Jocelyn Rae against Pat Cash and Anne Keothavong. However, as we're now deep into June and the height of the British Summer*, with about 10 mins to go it started raining - and it didn't stop until about 3:15. Deep Joy. Still, at least I h...