Monday 29 June

Very hot day.

We split up again.

Tina gets up just before 6am and heads to Wimbledon. She is number 6569 in The Queue (the capitals are deliberate as The Queue has its own thick booklet of rules)! She gets in after standing for four hours in The Queue and highlights are seeing Marty Fish and James Blake playing doubles together and then the Williams sisters blowing two Chinese off the court in doubles, 6-0, 6-0. She comes back to the hotel about 9pm and has had a great day.

I went to the Imperial War Museum and spent 6 and a 1/2 hours in there! Bought another tie - Churchill in profile. The cheese of the day was Cornish nettle yarg described as being similar in texture to Caerphilly (whatever that is). I had a cheddar, pear and beetroot chutney sandwich.

A paper has run a competition to write a haiku about summer in London. The winner's inspiration are his fellow commuters at Victoria Station.

"Beneath the morning sun
The city is painted gold
People move like bees through honey"