Tennis thread: it's almost the off-season, but the tennis chat continues!

[PrivateSpidey]

It's not quite time to don your woolly jumpers or stoke up your log fires for the winter - still some tennis to be played this season!

An exciting, mathematically challenging WTFs continues, new Davis Cup soon, etc...

You're a bad influence Fizzy

I know Private - don’t want to turn this into The crown thread but I was surprised that people weren’t aware of Aberfan - it happened before I was born but I still knew about (not sure how really but I’ve always been aware of it)

I remember reading about Aberfan when I was a child - maybe in Reader's Digest. Terrifying.

I remember Aberfan happening - I was a child. Very very frightening & so tragic.

On a lighter note, when de-cluttering your motto should be: "If in doubt - chuck it out".

This morning I am going to set up my new desktop computer & Windows 10. Had the current 'puter for 10+ years & it's reached the end of its life.

I may be some time.................

Good luck with the technology magi!!

I admire your approach to decluttering. I'm hopeless at throwing stuff out.

14 moves in 25 years is what helped, Private!!!

Pressed post to soon ..

And clearing my parents' house & in laws' after their deaths. It's only things - I'd give them all up to have the people back again.

That's a lot of moving magi.

There's very few things I get attached to but it's sorting that makes it hard and disposing of things in an environmentally friendly way.

Good luck with Microsoft (you'll need it!)

Boast alert!

Am sending this from new computer. Internet working, ad blocker installed, anti virus installed. Bookmarks reset on Firefox - the trickiest bit.

Have not set up printer yet - but am feeling a bit smug!!

Congrats magi!! Well done.

That is a lot of moving. When we moved earlier this year we had a massive clear out, and yet we already seem to have accumulated loads of stuff

Well done magi

Well done magi!!

I dread ever having to move. We have a lot of stuff. I am terrible at throwing things away. Our biggest problem is books. We have books everywhere- and I am a luddite, so a kindle just never cut it.

Before dd1 was born (so over 13 years now) we cleared the loft. It's worse than ever up there now. Dh likes to keep boxes 'just in case'. We have boxes for things (like pcs or tvs) that long ago met their maker. But we still have the boxes .

I have a dh problem.

well you never know when they might come in handy (boxes I mean, not DHs - although them as well). When we moved we realised basically the day before that we didn't have enough boxes, and our lovely NDN appeared with approx 20-30 smallish boxes (lots of wine and spirits boxes, to be fair ) that were perfect for books etc. She said she'd been using them to insulate the loft!!

PS Raahh have you seen the Christmas Hallmark movie thread on the films board?!

Private ooh, no!

I have watched the same film about 3 times this week, I'm sure.

Ooh- just turned over from Doctors, and Bublik has won.

I just turned the tennis on, to hear that RBA's dad passed away a couple of days ago- his mum died just before RG last year. It's very sad for him.

Raahh it's awful isn't it? Poor guy.

Have just seen Johnny Mac on a billboard advertising Tesco!

Honestly, first Casablanca and now this!

PS I see Serbia are out of the D Cup.

Tesco!

Now, Rafa knows all about self checkouts.

I saw a bit of the Rublev match, didn't look good then- but Djok obviously pulled it back. I'm guessing Rublev/Karen Hemsworth partnered up then- they are quite a good doubles pairing.

Poor RBA - hope his wedding went OK - think he should be married by now.

Mac advertising Tesco - yes Rafa would be much better!

Still haven’t watched any Davis Cup - still don’t really understand it.

Ah they left RBA's space for him

Oh, that's lovely. I read they were doing a minutes silence before the match. Must be hard for the whole team when something like this happens.

You're in good company, re- Davis Cup FIzzy. I'm not many people really get the format. Attendace has been a bit low too- although before the tournament, I saw that all the matches featuring Spain were sold out (probably hoping to see Rafa).

Rafa was complaining about the scheduling, as everything is so packed together , with the possiblity that some matches might finish very late. He had voiced concerns about it prior to it starting apparently. I'm not sure it works over the short time frame they are playing. I also liked that Davis Cup had 5 set matches- which they obviously can't do if they want to fit everything in.

I still haven't watched any. Poor BustaGut.

And that Tesco Casablanca ad is sacrilege! Hope Mac's is a better effort (doubt it).