Roger Federer has confirmed his status as tennis royalty! Today he lifted the French Open crown to win the only remaining major championship that had been, until now, out of his reach. What a remarkable achievement! Not only that but he matched the Grand Slam record of my boyhood idol Pete Sampras in winning his fourteenth Major. As you can tell, I am a keen tennis fan. My wife and I are actually heading to Wimbledon in a couple of weeks time to catch a day or two of the action. I haven't been for years, I'm really excited about it!

I used to play tennis as a kid, usually in the local park against my best friend. I never had any lessons or coaching, but we had some fierce encounters. We have a fierce rivalry at most things we compete at as I have said previously. I wonder, looking on at Roger Federer lifting his trophy, whether I could have been successful at something if I had had then the determination and dedication that I have now. Whether it be sports, or music. I was something of a quitter during my teens. No staying power! Nowadays, my will to succeed and my determination drives me forward, mainly in my career. Interesting how one can change...

Well, we did the wallpapering! It looks marvelous! We are really pleased with the job we did, we even managed to make the bits around plug sockets look professional. Maybe we have a new fallback career? Hehe, kidding. I've always thought to myself that if I get struck off I will train as a driving instructor. But I digress! So we just need to change the curtains now, the room looks a bit too bland since we got rid of colourful paper and put something very neutral up. We can take care of that by using colourful curtains and cushions for the sofas. I need to get the next door neighbours ladders to go up to the windows and give them a wash, and also to paint the ledges underneath them.. having the new pebble dashing has shown them up something shocking. I'm having a bloke over tomorrow to give us a quote for the driveway too, we had a couple of quotes already but not too happy with them.

In Quizzyland, I have been chasing certain badges. Not that I'm becoming a badge tart, well maybe a little bit. I nearly have 'Team Stakeholder'. I plod very slowly through the odd expert win, I have 6 so far. I so very nearly got a seventh last night in Europe (sports). I thought it was a banker for me.  I was beaten by someone from texas, go figure! I do well, but not well enough with these new question quizzes. I try every hour for the 'Mixed Hourly' version of smartest of the smart, I know I can get it on a lucky hour. I'm plodding slowly towards 1000 quizzes played for the 'quizzer' badge too. There must be others too!