Sunday 7 July 2013

Yes!

Today I should probably be telling you more about Norway, but

ANDY MURRAY,

We watched the first set, which was on hour of two top rank players making impossible returns in sweltering heat, then we had to go out because The Sunshines were involved in a charity garden party where we were all very British, eating cake and drinking tea in a garden and sometimes eating cake and drinking tea in the sitting room because the television was on so we could watch the tennis and

ANDY MURRAY,

and after a nerve-shredding second set we came home and got there in time to see him serve for the match, and nearly get broken, and it went to the wire time after time and then

ANDY MURRAY WON WIMBLEDON, and I swear the earth rocked as every Brit on the planet jumped up and down and cheered. Yes, for the first time in 77 years a British man won Wimbledon and, by the way, it was a Scot what done it. (Just saying, you know, Tony and I both have Scottish blood and Sottish connections. In the south of England they're all climbing up their family trees trying to find a great-great-great-granny from Arbroath.)

ANDY MURRAY WON WIMBLEDON and if you're not from these islands you can have no idea of the elation. The lad from Dunblane, God love him. And by all accounts a lovely guy.

I promise to tell you more about Norway. But today, Andy Murray won Wimbledon.

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