Not all days are packed with incident; today was quite hum-drum.
To sleep, perchance to dream... or listen to the radio, or read my kindle
Last night was not a 'sleeping night'. I passed the hours listening to the radio - the world service has some interesting programs, but I haven't a clue what it they were about now! The voices just occupy my head so that I don't worry about not being asleep!
When my tablet ran out of charge I fired up my kindle and finished the 'whodunnit' I was most of the way through. The screen is back-lit so I can have it on just bright enough to read easily while not disturbing BB, apparently asleep beside me.
Then I must have dozed off, because the next I knew it was morning and BB had tiptoed downstairs for his breakfast.
I reckon I'll catch up on my sleep tonight! Although my tablet and Bluetooth headphones are now fully charged again, just in case.
Tennis
I'm not a real follower of The Tennis, by which I mean Wimbledon. But we watched an amazing match between Dan Evans and Novak Djokavic inthe afternoon. To begin with it was a 'clash of the Titans', both men bringing their years of experience to the court and playing with skill and subtlety, to my untutored eye. But it seemed that gradually Djokavic was able to wear Evans down; the scores, 6-3, 6-2, 6-0 say it all. It was so frustrating to see Evans get to Adv time after time in a game, but never able to actually win. Oh well.
I hated tennis at school; was useless at it. Once we were in the sixth form at boarding we had to umpire interschool matches, which happened every weekend. Always, in the case of us duffers, on the further courts, 2nd and 3rd team matches. John Macenroe had nothing on these players when it came to line calls, without benefit of line judges...
Music
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Debussy
Mr Heffer, I think that was his name, used to come and play this to us as school when I was about 7 years old.
'Sit quietly children, you are in for a lovely treat'. I think we were too young for this treat. All I remember was how boring it was. No proper tune at all.
Later, we used to watch 'Face the Music' on television with the wonderful Joseph Cooper as quiz master. Does anyone else remember Joyce Grenfell guessing this piece correctly after JC only played the first note?
Much later I learned to play it myself... it's so beautiful. Now, I wonder what it would sound like on the cello...
I'm no tennis player but do enjoy watching some of the matches. I miss the lovely Roger F though !
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have to turn tv off if it's too nerve-wracking
DeleteMany years ago my cat, Cindy, liked to watch tennis. She’d sit in front of the television and her head would swing left and right to follow the ball. Eventually she’d get tired of that and just lie down and go to sleep facing the television.
ReplyDeleteHow sweet, She must have learned that she couldn't catch the ball on the screen!
DeleteI hope you are able to sleep tonight. The hours can seem long when you lie awake (knowing how tired you're going to feel the next day).
ReplyDeleteA wakeful night used to bother me a lot more when I was working. Now, it's easy to just have a gentle day afterwards. I slept like a log last night, thank you, I thought I might!
DeleteI used to love Face The Music. I would watch it with my old foster Dad and he and I would try and guess what Joseph Cooper was playing on the dummy keyboard some times I got lucky but my foster Dad nearly always got it pretty quickly. He knew his music. Hope you get a better night's sleep tonight. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteJust occasionally Face the Music is on iplayer... I watched an episode recently. The questions were so hard! Joseph Cooper adjudicate our local music festival when I was about 12, he was so delightful and encouraging to us all. I've kept his report that year somewhere.
DeleteSlept well last night, thank you. 💤
I find I can fall asleep until the light goes off and then I wake up and have to read for a few hours - not ideal!
DeleteThat sounds very contrary! As you say, not ideal!
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