I was so excited to wake up today because I was off to Wimbledon.  I manage to get tickets most years and it is one of my favourite days out of the year.  I lurve tennis 🙂 .

I had a healthy start to the day with porridge made with oats, oat bran, chia seeds, banana and soya milk, topped with fresh raspberries and 1 tsp almond butter.  Those raspberries were wonderful.

I made a packed lunch to take with me.  Kent cherries are ripe – best cherries in the UK are Kent cherries when they have just been picked and you can buy them from orchard side stalls.

I also made up a large tub of salad, using some of the leftover vegetables from last night’s dinner plus fresh and raw celery, cucumber, tomatoes, an apple, cottage cheese and nuts.

I also packed a bottle of wine but brought most of it home later – not in a boozy mood today.

When I saw the order of play, I was disappointed.  I have been lucky enough to see most of the top players before and the one person I really wanted to see was Murray but he was on Court One and we had Centre Court tickets.  I could just hear my Mother admonishing me for moaning.  She would have said “you should be ashamed of yourself  – you are jolly lucky to be going at all”!   Yes, I agree I was extremely lucky.

I went with my sister Lucy and we met early and settled on to Court 19 to watch one of the Boys Singles matches.

We chose to watch a Brit, Peter Ashley who played a young Spanish player, Toledo Bague.  It was a good match but Ashley lost.

We took our seats in Centre Court.  We were really high up, opposite the Royal Box.

First up was Federer against Malisse.  What a legend.  He is one of my favourite all time ever sporting heroes.

Guess what?

Yes, it rained, so the covers came on.

Not for long luckily!  Why don’t they just close the roof?

It was a bit of a frustrating match because Federer had a back injury and didn’t seem to get in to a rhythm.  But he won and I hope he recovers before his next match.

After the Federer match we went for afternoon tea.  We shared 4 little seafood sandwiches.

We also shared a slice of Victoria sponge cake and a scone with clotted cream and jam.  And chatted.  And chatted.  So much we managed to miss the second match on Centre Court.  Oops – we missed a gruntathon between Ivanovic and Azarenka!  When we got back the roof was on and we were the only court where play continued.  Jolly lucky I didn’t have seats to watch Murray since rain stopped play!

Back on court we enjoyed Djokovic Vs Troicki.

The score board did not seem to reflect what a great match this was and how amazing some of the tennis was.

Djokovic won (surprise!).

After a little bit of shopping it was time to head home.  Not before we asked a passer by to take a photo – shame they did not have steady hands :-(.

I had a wonderful time at Wimbledon, enjoyed some great tennis and loved having my sister Lucy all to myself all day.  I was jolly lucky indeed.