“Did you know,” said my student friend Susan one summer afternoon a hundred years ago as we lay in the long grass outside Royal Holloway College, “that you can get temporary jobs at Wimbledon for the tennis championships?”
Oh your poor peasant thumb x
Thanks for your compassion, Clare - it is not a delicate digit and it hurt for weeks. The memory, meanwhile, rankles to this day. xx
Centre Court, not Central Rx
Thanks for the correction, Richard, I've fixed it. They didn't tell us this stuff in the strawberry tent.
Oh your poor peasant thumb x
Thanks for your compassion, Clare - it is not a delicate digit and it hurt for weeks. The memory, meanwhile, rankles to this day. xx
Centre Court, not Central Rx
Thanks for the correction, Richard, I've fixed it. They didn't tell us this stuff in the strawberry tent.