I love Wimbledon
I really do. There's something so marvellously British about it. The gentle 'thwack', the spectator's heads gong back and forth, the dulcet tones of the umpire, the brollies...it's all so brilliant. I don't get to go much any more, but I feel I must take Thing 1 to give him a bit of inspiration.
He's been playing tennis for about 2 years and fankly and think I'm wasting my money. I mean, I don't expect to produce a Wimbledon champ, but I do think we could have a decent game now and again. But no. We last played together a couple of weeks ago. Here's how it went:
Me serving. Thing 1 missed. Thing 1 threw his racket.
Thing 1 serving. I returned. He missed. He stamped around for a good few minutes.
Me serving. Thing 1 returned. We had a good volley of two hits each. Thing 1 sent it out. He cried.
End of match.
He turns up at his lessons every week and spends the entire hour:
1. shooting the enemy (whoever they are) with his machine gun/raquet, rolling around to avoid enemy bullets
2. playing air guitar with aformentioned raquet
3. using balls as grenades and seeing if he can get a direct hit on the coach
4. pretending to be wounded in battle and using raquet as crutch
He's no Andy Murray that's for sure. I think he may be more of a cricketer...
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