I've Discovered the Reason Why the Weather has Turned Crap

At last! I've found the solution! Over the past few weeks, the beautiful summer afternoons that we were enjoying had somewhat faded and now I know exactly why.





The Wimbledon Tennis Championships got underway this week, with the obligatory match postponements due to the British summer.

This years tournament hasn't really got off with a bang, partly due to some event going on in Germany and partly due to the fact that "Henmania" is well and truely over.
After years of it being "Henman's year", only for him to be humiliated by an Eastern European mini-cab driver in the 3rd round, Britain has finally given up on the perenial loser (who is already on his way home after a second round defeat) and moved on to a new hero.

This year, Britain's middle classes will be raising their Pimms and overpriced fruit to the prospect that is Great Britain's Andrew Murray. Well, he's "Great Britain's" Andy Murray whilst he's still in the tournament, but the minute he's packed up and on his way out from SW19, he'll be plain old "Scotland's" Andrew Murray - that's how the Britain works. We lay claim to anything that isn't ours, until we find out that it isn't very good and discard it. It's probably how we built Queen Victoria built her empire.
Murray hit the big-time at last years competition, before the pressure told and he bowed out in the 3rd round - one better than "Tiger Tim", but this year, he's the golden boy and the pressure is on.

I really don't get into Tennis. The only possitive for me is that it replaces those dyer daytime TV schedules and reaffirms all those British middle-class sterotypes; Pip-pip, tally-ho and all the rest. Infact, I think Wimbledon should be banned altogether. Do away with Wimbledon, and we might actually have an undisrupted summer.

Hopefully, the competition will pass-off peacefully and as long as nobody passes Cliff Richard a microphone (only in England would they get an old man to sing "We're all Going on a Summer Holiday" when it's pissing with rain), the World Cup should ensure that we don't here two much about Wimbledon 2006.