No Tennis No Cry

[JaneJeffer]

We can do this!

Thanks Jane

Love the title.

Yes let's power on through what should be the best part of the year over the next few weeks tennis-wise!

Sorry I think I just made myself feel worse by saying that

and me

Thread title not working great so far

reverse psychology hasn't worked so far eh?!

I watched "If" and that made me emotional as well! Then it automatically played Fed v Sampras 2001, so I'm now watching that. Which is good. What a great tournament that year

Well, the title made me laugh. Nice one, Jane.

Love the title.

Thanks for the new thread Jane and for posting Roger and Rafa reading If.

I think that has to be my favourite Rafa period with the long hair and sleeveless top . I like him now though of course

I’ll try not to talk too much about food shopping and flour on this thread - I think that’s what filled the last one up

Fizzy You can talk about whatever you want - the beauty of the internet is we don't have to answer {grin}

(But I find food/flour pretty engrossing atm)

Thanks magi - food and flour are about the only things occupying me at the moment. I’ve ordered some bread flour and yeast that I can collect on Tuesday - I’m beyond excited!

Just been on my walk and said hello to the alpacas

Here's another Alpaca popping in to say hello

I was tempted in by the title (nice one JaneJeffer) and just had to post to say hello when I saw Fizzywinegum's great picture

Hope you're all coping with lockdown and not getting too fed up with the lack of tennis.

Drama do you have an alpaca alert on your phone?

One of the supermarkets here is bagging up flour which must have been intended for restaurants.

Jane sadly no, just spending far too much time on here these days

I'd give anything for a bag of bread flour. I am obsessed with it at the moment. I found one pack of yeast, and other types of flour have started to appear, but no strong white. It doesn't help that of course I can't travel out of our village so only have two small supermarkets to shop in.

Aww, I love Alpacas. The local farm has some. They are gorgeous.

I am beyond excited, because the heron is back at the park I take the dog to. Well, it might be a different heron. But, it's still a heron. Scary, beady eyed thing. . But I love seeing it. And the water rats.

What has my life become???! . I've never been so fascinated by wild life before .

Glad that the picture made you come and say hello Drama

Im getting my bread flour from a local bakery where you can order online and collect - it’s definitely in short supply though.

We’ve been seeing a heron on some of our walks Raahh - I too get excited when I see a heron - not sure about water rats though

polishes 'I love AC' badge

I thought that was kazza's Raahh?!

Love the photo Fizzy. And all the wildlife updates. AC would be proud!

Hi Drama lovely to hear from you on here. Such a shame we won't have any tennis to chat about for the foreseeable. Although I do think we'll see some domestic/behind closed doors tournaments Tim's underground car park

Oh I love herons. I regularly see them round here, patiently waiting for an unsuspecting fish, or flying overhead.

A farm not too far from us uses a llama (I think, it's quite big) as a guard for his sheep. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it. If you go for a walk round there the locals warn you not to get close as it's a grumpy bugger and once chased an elderly man and his little dog off the land. So we give it a wide swerve. I feel a bit sorry for it being on its own, I doubt sheep are much company.

Spidey maybe I need to hide the badge

Yes maybe you'd better

I ended up watching a few old matches earlier, including the 2008/9 men's finals - AC was commentating and he didn't seem as waffly as he does now

Although it was only highlights so maybe they edited out the butterfly comments etc?!

Drama I love the sound of the guard alpaca, although it does sound like a bit of a sad existence. Maybe he might revolt and take over the farm, like in Shaun the Sheep

I ended up watching 'You Got Mail' earlier, for the umpteenth time, even though it is rubbish, and not a patch on 'The Shop around the Corner'. And the soundtrack irritates me. But I couldn't be bothered moving. .

I am slowly turning into a short, hairy, jabba the hut.

Oh, for goodness sake! I'm sitting here, finishing my vino before dessert, and the mood is broken because the butterfly fancier is mentioned

I do like an alpaca.
And I luvs Shaun the Sheep! Absolutely brilliant, on so many levels

Shaun the Sheep is wasted on children. It is one of those programmes I will watch when no-one else is around.

I used to have a haircut a bit like Meg Ryan. But not quite as good as her's
Very jealous

We used to watch Shaun the Sheep with DS when he was much younger, when it was a 5 minute programme on the BBC, before the films. We all used to laugh and enjoy it, but maybe DH and I were laughing for a slightly different reason to DS

kazza so much goes over the headsof the children in a lot of tv shows. I also watch 'Hey Duggee'. I am not ashamed to say I find this hilarious, even though I am 48, and this is aimed at pre-schoolers, and my youngest is 9. It has gay crabs in it! (One is called Nigel).