Superset tennis on Sunday was mostly good. We did have to queue outside in the rain, and it was really busy with people inside. They also took everyone's bottle caps (except mine because they don't search bags properly) but no-one would tell us why. Which did mean we spent the whole afternoon thinking up reasons. The only one we could come up with was that we'd throw them at the players but we could think of far better things to throw. I found out when I got home, from my landlady's boyfriend, is that they do that at football matches to stop people throwing full bottles. Cos I totally see tennis fans doing that [/sarcasm]

Apart from that, we saw Greg Rusedski with very girly hair and a hairband, who dragged his match with Boris Becker out to a tie-break (at 10-10!) but did make it to the final. I spotted John McEnroe commentating on this match - he disappeared after that.

Next up was Goran Ivanisevic (forever known as Gobby Goran in our house for his nasty habit of spitting on the court). He also had a hairband but his hair was its normal longish length, so looked a bit less girly. He played around, as per usual, but didn't put up much of a fight against Tommy Robredo.

The eventual winner Mario Ancic played Robbie Ginepri and then we saw John McEnroe who easily outplayed Andy Murray - a seventeen year old Brit, who is apparently someone to watch out for. Although we've heard that one before.

Tim Henman had pulled out after the Davis Cup, with injury and had apparently been commentating. Which would have been, um, interesting, to, er, listen to.

It was a weird experience. I was still recovering from the flu, so the flashing lights didn't do me much good. And I don't know whether it was the lights or the colour of the court, but it was really hard to see the ball sometimes. I did like the players appealing to Hawkeye though. It's always interesting to see whether the linesmen have got it right and for it to count.

The thing I can't decide is whether I'd go again if they did another one. Wimbledon, on the other hand, is great for the experience (and a bit of tennis) and Davis Cup is great for the atmosphere (and both are good for getting to see doubles, which is much more interesting).

Edit: those photos looked much better when they were four times the size and about 700k (instead of ~20k)!

I tried to post this at 8.25pm on 2nd Sept, but blogger was being a bugger and didn't post it:

Didn't have a terribly good weekend, then today was really shite. I pretty much spent the day working on one project, on which everything that could go wrong did go wrong. And its still not finished. Will be nice to get it out of the way though. Discovered my landlady's cats have fleas because I've been bitten and also because I've seen them. Looking forward to going home this weekend as it'll be relaxing (yeah, right). Will have to go to Tescos, so might as well go to the cinema while I'm there as I still haven't seen Minority Report and The Importance of Being Earnest comes out on Friday, which I really want to see. Plus if I don't take my computer home I'll only get bored anyway.

Managed to miss Hywel this weekend, which was pretty much the reason for going to The Bill studios. Hopefully though I'll be able to get the day off for the next one, which will be before he leaves. I still have about 10 photos left on my film as well, which I'll need to use up at the Davis Cup match. Almost getting excited about that as well, not that much because I haven't really seen any of the US Open because BBC2 only show the semi-finals onwards, if that, which isn't much help as non of our guys are left in by that stage. And the year that Rusedski got to the final they didn't show it at all! I remember listening to it on the radio at 11 o'clock at night, in the dark, lying in bed, trying not to fall asleep. Have at least managed to find some good fic at the SG1 2002 Awards site, which is something.