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He almost certainly won't have decided yet, but Hamburg usually isn't long after Wimbledon, so maybe that? (It used to be in May, which is why I was able to go and see several days of it on my university year abroad.) I do take your point about gloryhunters and toffs, but I love the game. Off work today with the deadly man-flu so I've been reading all about the wacky world of Bruno Rebeuh - as well as YouTube surfing for clips like this, which might put a few people's minds at ease when it comes to goalline technology in football. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlWAOZTBnQ

What a pair of cunts.

Aye, that's the thing. As much as anything it felt like a relief, like when Ivanisevic won in 2001 - someone getting their reward for years of hard slog. Obviously if you don't like the sport in the first place then that'll mean nothing to you, but if you do...

The Fish keeps telling me I'd be a good dad. I'm starting to worry about what his intentions might be.

Sounds awful.

I'm not. As I say, the time expenditure happens at some point of the process, so what does it matter when it happens? Other than the psychological burden when you lot start seething in the queue behind me because I've scanned everything through in super-quick time then take a minute to pack it. All of which makes me more committed to continuing to do so.

The light/heavy and sturdy/squashable principles are absolutely sound, of course. Since the self-service tills don't have a conveyor belt, though, unless I've done my shopping in the reverse of the order described and my basket is already layered accordingly - with tins on top, squashing the poor tomatoes beneath - then it's just as easy to scan it all through and pack it correctly afterwards. There's a time loss at either end of the process.

You'll jump straight in without knowing anything about it then too? Mind the whole thing is doubly ridiculous given he hasn't actually donated the money (this time).

Well, it's close to home for him insofar as they're treating one of his best mates. I'd say that's close enough.

I suppose that goes some way to explaining the occasional plummy Home Counties voice shouting "Come on, Knowvak!" from the Centre Court stands today (that and the desperate need to be different, obviously). Still, though, I don't feel like Murray is any less "mine" than 11 footballing mercenaries effectively representing themselves, even if they happen to be wearing the same national team shirt while doing so.

He did donate his winnings from Queens Club to the same charity, so I guess that's where the confusion came from. Still, it's an English hospital, so I hope they rejected the money on account of him being a Jock cunt.

Judy Murray? I'd go G&T-for-G&T with her all night long, she'd end up doing "Independent Women" on karaoke and drink everyone else firmly under the table. What's not to like?

http://andymurrayometer.com/ About bloody time.

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Country is coming out of the closet, y'all!

A friend of mine - very lovely but the stereotypical overdramatic American-Jewish worrier - is currently freaking out online because she landed at San Francisco on a 777 three days ago, so THIS COULD HAVE BEEN HER

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It's physical exertion, so I'm guessing his mam's side of the family.

Centre Court today is like a real-life game of "Where's CT?".

(Not my dog. I kind of wish it was!)

Purists will point out it's nowt to do with Newcastle really, but I stumbled across a batch at the local branch of Family Bargains, of all places, so I had to give it a try.

That's the fella. Works a treat!