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Guitar

Looked round for a photograph tonight and I came up with my guitar.
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In the garden today

I’ve been working at home today, so I walked round the garden and took a few pictures.
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I had heard there was a shortage of bees this year – this bush was being constantly visited.
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Cfor

That is ‘C’ for cat. Cfor is very difficult to get in any sort of pose – as soon as she knows you are taking an interest in her she purrs round your legs hoping for attention – or food – usually food.
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Rained off

The tennis today was rained off – we had a light mist of rain most of the day. We stayed at home, eventually the organisers put the finals indoors, so no spectators, however EuroSport was allowed in so we got a good view on the TV. We now need to send our tickets off for the rain insurance. Wimbledon starts on Monday!
I went into the garden after the rain and took these.
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The Jasmine tree is just coming onto full bloom, it only lasts for a few days.
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Semi final day

We watched the semi finals today, Ivo Karlovic impressed us with his all round ability – we had previously had him down as ‘just a slugger’, but he played serve volley well against Monfils.
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In the doubles we were rooting for Murray and Coetzee and we were very pleased when they won.
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At the tennis again

We had some wonderful tennis today, but I thought that I would post some of the other things that go on. There is live music during most of the day.
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Lots of food stalls
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and in the audience there are many different kinds of photographer ranging from the casual to the professional.
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Rain at the tennis

We had a rainy – well mostly drizzle – day at the tennis. Some brave souls waited until the rain cleared.
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It was cold – particularly with the wind chill. The covers were on and off the court most of the day.
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but we still saw some great tennis, in particular Bogdanovic went out of the singles – but he kept us on tenterhooks as he saved one match point after another until he finally succumbed to Cilic; who on Monday took Mathieu the number 2 seed out.

2nd day of Tennis

We were at the tennis again today. The security men reminded me of MIB
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We also saw Alex Bogdanovic and I thought this picture was quite good
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LTA | The Slazenger Open

We spent today watching the tennis at The Slazenger Open, previously known as the Nottingham Open. We saw some superb tennis, including a doubles match where Paul Hanley and Todd Perry defeated Jonathon Erlich and Andy Ram (seeded number 1) – not the only seeded players to be defeated in todays matches. Paul-Henri Mathieu (number 2 seed)
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was defeated by Maric Cilic, however Dmitry Tursanov (grown a beard since last year – he is number 6 seed)
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stayed in the tournament defeating Yen-Hsun Lu, it was a close match.

Wandering round Patchings grounds

Today we went to a local outdoor store and purchased two plastic ponchos to keep the rain off during the Nottingham Open this week. Then on to Patchings where Maria finshed two bears. I walked round the grounds and took some pictures with the Olympus 70-300mm lens.
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