{"id":276,"date":"2013-07-02T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=276"},"modified":"2013-07-02T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:07:51","slug":"whirling-around-and-watching-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2013\/07\/whirling-around-and-watching-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirling Around and Watching Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well!\u00a0\u00a0It’s been a funny old week and a half at\u00a0what is almost turning into Wimblegeddon.\u00a0 After all the injuries and shock-exits of last week – drum roll –\u00a0Serena Williams out in the fourth round!\u00a0 Who would have thought it?\u00a0 I know that Sabine Lisicki is a good player; she’s put out big names in previous Wimbledons, including Sharapova and Li Na.\u00a0 But Serena?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The list of quarter-finalists would probably have got you odds of 5000-1 before the championship started.\u00a0 And it’s a bit like that in the men’s draw, too, although at least there the No 1 and No 2 seeds are still in and looking likely to meet each other in the final.\u00a0 I can’t see anyone stopping them.\u00a0 But then I’d said that about Serena!\u00a0 What do I know?\u00a0 Shame we lost Laura yesterday.\u00a0 At her press conference she was like a human deflated balloon, poor dear.\u00a0\u00a0Tennis\/sports journalists have had a field day this year.\u00a0\u00a0Most of them need to hang their heads in shame; they seem to know as much about tennis as they do about grammar.\u00a0 If I read the amount of players <\/em>one more time I think I’ll scream!<\/p>\n

Socially it’s all been a bit of a whirl since my last journal post.\u00a0Last Wednesday \u00a0I had a fabulous evening full of belly laughs with my great buddies from Palmer’s College last week.\u00a0 I just love them all and it was\u00a0so good to spend time with them again,\u00a0 And I’m still laughing at J’s anecdote about menopausal magnets.\u00a0 Must use that in\u00a0the Amazing Adventures of Maisie and Em.\u00a0 And then on Thursday I went with the Sister to the O2 to see Mrs Brown.\u00a0 We had a bite to eat with the Daughter before we went in, which is always lovely.\u00a0 We seem to see less and less of each other lately.\u00a0 I always enjoy the O2; the staff are welcoming and friendly and the seats are comfortable.\u00a0 The show was hilarious; made up of the best bits of the TV series, which meant I’d seen most of it but still laughed my head off.\u00a0 Brendan O’Carroll is a very talented man.<\/p>\n

And the curtain’s gone up on Ladykillers!\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 So great to be a part of it all again.\u00a0 A different theatre and\u00a0different cast mean it’s almost like being in a different show.\u00a0 But so nice to be working with M and J and N and S and A again.<\/p>\n

I am a very lucky woman!\u00a0 In the prime of life and having a ball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well!\u00a0\u00a0It’s been a funny old week and a half at\u00a0what is almost turning into Wimblegeddon.\u00a0 After all the injuries and shock-exits of last week – drum roll –\u00a0Serena Williams out in the fourth round!\u00a0 Who would have thought it?\u00a0 I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123,206,207,209,208,190,160],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brendan-ocarroll","tag-mrs-brown","tag-o2","tag-sabine-lisicki","tag-serena-williams","tag-the-ladykillers","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}