It’s been really quiet round here for weeks. That ended yesterday when the party house sprang back into action. The music could be heard 2 streets away as I found out when I took the dogs for their walk. That wasn’t enough for them though. They added shouts and screams and for good measure added a microphone. They do kids parties so have a professional sound system.

When I took the dogs out I bumped into a posse in the next street. I say posse but I don’t think any of the 8 people gathered in a huddle were under 70. When they saw me they asked if I lived near the party house. Oh God yes. One of the guys was talking about them “tooling up” with baseball bats. I think maybe he had been overdoing the gangster films. Looking at his gang I doubted more than a couple could lift a baseball bat above waist height. I left them to it.

When I walked through that street on the way home there was no sign of Marlon and the Brando bunch. I couldn’t hear screams coming from the party house so I guessed they hadn’t all grabbed a bat. Hopefully they complain to the landlord.

The music came back on this evening but as I write this at almost 9 pm I can’t hear anything from over there.

We went to see the grandkids on Friday. Sue took a load of picnic stuff. I dropped her off in the morning and thought they were saving me some for when I got there later. They ate the lot! I played with the kids in the garden. The 6 year old likes setting down the rules for whatever we play.

“You be the dad, I’ll be the mum and Ivy can be the baby”

Now Ivy is getting a bit older she has started to do the same.

“You be Branch, I’ll be the bad guy and Ella is Poppy”

Eh? The first time she said it I thought she was telling me to be a tree. I told her I didn’t who Branch was. Ivy started stropping and pretending to cry. There are never any tears but its a good performance. It must work on her mum as she keeps doing it. I asked Ella to help me out.

“What does she mean? Who is Branch?”

“I don’t know”

She did bloody know but Ella wanted to play by HER rules. If she didn’t help me I couldn’t play Ivy’s game. Then Ivy started shouting something over and over and making this sign with both hands.

Apparently its from the Trolls movie. She kept that up for the next 20 minutes.

Other than the trading not a lot else has happened. The car needed 3 new tyres. I used Tyres On The Drive. I had used them once before and the guy had been excellent. The guy this time could barely string a sentence together. To be fair he did what he was being paid to do really well but I left him to it. I had stuck the car on next door’s drive as she was away. I had asked her if I could use it. That way I could keep an eye on the guy from my desk.My drive is round the back. Next to the party house. When he arrived the guy’s head nearly exploded because the car wasn’t at the address that he had been given. I told him I had used the neighbours drive just to confuse him which was met with a blank look and a slack jaw. I decided against chatting to him while he worked. Its a good service though.

That’s about all I have for now. I have the house to myself tomorrow.

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Ferro (1.73) v Giorgi (2.34)

Due to start around 5:30 pm

This will be their first meeting.

Overall results favour Ferro in the last 12 months and also in 2020. Her clay results are much stronger. She has won 38 of her last 50 on this surface. Giorgi has won 28 of her last 50.

Ferro has not lost a set this week. She has been favourite in every match. Her opening sets against Errani and Alexandrova were close but she dominated the second sets.

Giorgi has had very close matches in every round. Last night she lost the first set to Dayan Yastremska who also broke serve at the start of set 2. Giorgi fought back well to take the match in 3 sets. She had also lost the opening set to Kaja Juvan in the previous round.

Ferro’s stats for the tournament are stronger and I give her the edge today. Back her around 2.10 or wait for her to be broken before backing.

Update: Ferro made a terrible start and was 5-0 down. She was really struggling on serve. In the second set she broke Giorgi’s serve straight away. She went a double break up. Giorgi got one of the breaks back but Ferro sealed the set with another break of the Giorgi serve and a solid hold.
Ferro went a break ahead in the deciding set. She held onto the lead until she served for the match at 5-4. Giorgi broke her. Ferro once again won a break of the Giorgi serve and this time comfortably served out the match.
Ferro won 2-6, 6-2, 7-5.