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As some of you may have seen, although I am not sure if it made the UK news, the Costa Blanca has suffered its worst storms for over 100 years in the last couple of days. There has been extensive flooding and sadly loss of life in the region as well. I am currently in Brazil, which makes matters worse in a way...
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So just to say, I have realised I have spent WAYYYYY too much time on here in recent weeks/months and to that extent my work has probably suffered and certainly I know I need to pull back. That isnt going to happen over Wimbledon and I plan to keep on my grass court wins lists through to the bitter end but, af...
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OK. So I am not really into the modern trend of Reality TV and Talent shows. Most of them make me cringe, at best. But whilst I have been over here in Brazil, I have got into X Factor USA, mainly because it is one of the only shows that is in English and subtitled rather than dubbed. The vast majority of the co...
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A laugh
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https://twitter.com/ExpatTennisFan/status/1151647114356822016
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According to the stats , the most ever visitors to this page was Sept 7 2010. It was in the us open. Anyone know what was so special that day, was it a Murray match?
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I am wondering if any of my tennis family on here has experience in Social Media marketing and could offer me any help/advice. I am trying to crowd fund a project to raise funds for my work in Brazil and really need to get the crowd funding page out to as many people as possible. I have a page already set up t...
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Danny Baker fired
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Bicester village
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Sitting here whilst wife and daughter browse the shops. Place is heaving, and folks seem to be groaning with bags from all sorts of top end shops. Customers largely a mix of Chinese, middle east and Europeans of various nationalities. Crazy crazy place, almost obscene I think.
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Notre Dame
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Paris cathedral currently being devastated by fire. Spire and roof have collapsed.
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La Manga Club
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Those of you who read my various scribes on here will no doubt remember that I have on occasions waxed lyrical about the facilities and the set up at the La Manga Club. The facilities remain unchanged but there has been a notable change in another way. James Rose, who had spent several years there and wa...
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Do we learn as we get older
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So here is the thing - I am 53 years old now and love my work, but I expected that by my age I would have seen everything and learnt not to be disappointed by how things dont always turn out the way you want! I went to see a client in November and after a couple of discussions talking them through various pro...
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Labour party in a mess
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Some people may say that the Tories are very divided, but the Labour party is in a right mess and has been for sometime. 7 resigned this morning. One has already lost the whip and is effectively independent. Expect more to resign over the next few weeks. My MP is Luciana Berger - I am not surprised she has r...
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After a long and arduous year, last Friday was the day when I was due to fly home to Spain from the UK after my final business meeting of the year. It didn't go to plan - not the meeting, the flying home bit. I left my colleague's house at 2pm Friday and got the train to Gatwick. Checked in my luggage (overwe...
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Geminids
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Just to the left of Orion - far more spectacular than Brexit.
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As there is a lot of speculation and interest on another thread it seems like the time has come say what I know - I hope no-one is or would be annoyed that I am sharing it but there was such a demand for information I feel I needed to. A couple of years ago (June 2016) after openly wondering where ISF was in a thr...
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Scroll Free September
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Hi All I am not normally one that jumps on bandwagon monthly initiatives, but this month I am going to try and give the scroll free September a bit of a go. The truth is, I have so much going on right now (all positive, I should add) that time is becoming an ever more precious commodity. So if you don't see me...
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Curveball.....
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I put up a new score for you guys to shoot at....but I wonder....do any of you still play? I still have not defeated level 9.....wish I had some idea how to do it....I think Stagger had an idea, but he won't share!
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Radio 4 Living for the City - Corinne Bailey Rae
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Very much a niche subject this! But it anyone is interested this is an excellent listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh440w I have to admit a slight bias as a massive fan of Corinne Bailey Rae - to make my world complete I can also admit to a personal interest. As is discussed on the programme,...
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http://britishtennis.activeboard.com/t64717666/caution-of-forum-abuse/?page=1#comment-64717666
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Just to say today is GCSE results day - if anyone out there is getting results or has a child or relative getting them , good luck! My daughter gets hers today ! Nervous ! For those who got a levels or had a child getting a levels last week, I hope they got what they wanted and are happy!
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this is just random musings, but i have been thinking about how few worldclass tennis players we have and at the moment the answer is just 1, but then i started to think how many world class sports people we have in this country in general, and is it just the way tennis is played at pro level that makes it sta...
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I think the time has come for a review as to who should be be moderators. I had to delete a kitchen spam thread in the Andy section today which had been there for 17 hours. And it was one which had escaped the spam filter, so was there for everyone to see which isn't the greatest look for the forum. The only act...
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16th August, 2018 - RIP
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On the day the Davis Cup died, this has me even more upset ...
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Wimbledon jobs!
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http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/guide/jobs/assistantwebproducer.html
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Restaurants closing down
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So where we live in the past few months we have lost Jamies Italian, Byron burger, carluccio , prezzo , gaucho and CAU just this week and many other small independent restaurants . Many of these opened two years ago on a wave of new places coming to the town as a new cinema complex opened. Very sad - ques...
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