It's almost time for another Davis Cup semi-final in Glasgow. Therefore, today I left home at the early hour of 6am in the hope of beating the worst of the traffic. It worked, as after 3 hours I made it to Tebay Services, where I enjoyed a second breakfast of sausage, bacon, egg, beans, toast, black pudding and haggis - lush! So far, the weather had been misty and overcast. But as I sat eating brekkie and admiring the views of the mountains, the sun started to p...

Wow, after a weekend of somewhat damp weather, Bank Holiday Monday proved to be glorious, so I had to go out and make the most of it. One big problem though. It's the August Bank Holiday - marking the last week of the school holidays and one of the busiest weekends of the year on our roads. Problem easily solved by going somewhere fairly local and choosing minor A and B roads to get there. Something that the Little Minx (as my MX-5 is called) and I thoroughly en...

Today was Mum's birthday outing. So we met up with some of her friends for a trip to the Chichester Festival Theatre to see their new production of Half A Sixpence. With a couple of neighbours, we first drove to Gosport to meet up with a couple of friends who had laid on an exquisite High Tea. Then all six of us made our way to Chichester. The Chichester Festival Theatre has a great reputation and their big summer production often transfers to the West End. Thi...

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...