… of quitting your job and doing what little work you do do at home if you can’t watch Andy Murray being taken limb from limb / surprisingly going through to the next round* because the only channel you can get on your telly is a very fuzzy Channel 4? Our broadish band means Radio … five … live … sounds… a little… stuttery on the internet (my DAB radio has become welded to Radio 4 and refuses to be retuned) and besides, tennis on the radio doesn’t make much sense. Cricket on the radio, now, that actually makes more sense than it does on TV, but not the tennis.
Hopefully it will have started raining (our aerial only seems to work in the rain) up here and not down there in time for the actual match. So far – as far as I can make out – they’re just doing the court-cover hokey-cokey.
Someone let me know if he wins, will you?
*delete as appropriate
Um. Yeah, I was backing him but really, turns out Nadal is in a different league entirely. I’m so bored with British players at all sports saying they’re tired, too, I mean, they’re professional athletes it’s time they bucked up and if they’re getting tired they need to get fitter.
Yeah … or just a whole lot better. TV reception sorted itself out just in time for the 3-set dismemberment.
So now the British White Hope will be demoted to just yet another Scottish failure
Was there ever any doubt as to the result? Nadal has been in the form of his life lately.
I bought Paul a DAB radio the first Christmas we moved up here. It got taken back a few days after Christmas and exchanged for a non-DAB radio/CD player as we cannot get a signal here. Apparently this had been a common occurrence…
On the tennis front Nadal was magnificent.
I can get some DAB reception (and R4 is fine) but our digital TV signal is pretty patchy. Which is worrying, as they’re planning on switching off the analogue soon… (of course the analogue signal is rubbish too but at least at the moment we’ve got a choice of rubbish signals)
(sorry that was me)
Nadal is playing out of his socks at the moment. Outstanding athlete. Though fair play to Andy Murray for making it this far with such a weight of expectation on his shoulders.