Spectator, Steven:  many thanks for the warm welcome back.  I had no idea my absence would be noticed.  Yes, it was a holiday:  a trip from NW (sort of) to NE Spain in 10 days called "Wine, walks & tapas" - Bilbao-Logroño (capital of La Rioja)-Montblanc (just inside Catalunya) (via Zaragoza)-Barcelona (via Penedès & Montserrat), mostly familiar territory, but I still enjoyed it.  Good group, weather not too bad after the first four days & we tasted some interesting & (in this country) unfamiliar wines. 

Flew out from Stansted with easyJet, so relatively civilised, but I left my car there, so I needed to go back there.  Only trouble is, easyJet doesn't fly from Barcelona to Stansted, whereas Mickey O'Mouse Air does.  I resented having to line Michael O'Leary's pockets again, but I really had no option.    I won't be able to pick up my new specs until next Monday (I was unable to speak to a human being when I tried to report the loss on Sunday, being forced instead to leave a recorded message, so I don't hold out any hope of recovering the pair I left on the aircraft), but I keep the pair from my last prescription in a drawer of my desk at work (it's not unknown for me to forget to take my glasses with me when I leave for work in the morning...).  They're slightly weaker, but they're a helluva lot better than having to struggle to read with my distance glasses in dim light, so I can now cope until then.

Apparently Alizé & Jérémy are a couple (I thought couples weren't meant to risk playing mixed doubles together LOL) - something I found out from this article about a rather apt tweet from the former:

http://www.tennisalternative.com/tennisspinster-alize-lim-puts-maria-sharapova-in-her-place-rn2349.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Col & Flipper 4-3* in the second.

Hev & Jonny recover the break for *4-4.