Fantastic Hugh! There’s some wonderful reminiscences there. Funny how celebrities hang together.... How amazing were Kenny and Margaret on doubles. Great stuff!
Thank you so much Hugh for another great story! I really enjoyed reading more about Ken and Margaret's amazing doubles tennis successes. A pity about the falling out between Ken and Harry. Being born Australian and not British, might have made it difficult at times for Ken while he was living in London perhaps. The tennis fans certainly loved watching Ken in action at Wimbledon.
Thanks Peter, you've been catching up at Christmas -- sending comments on several of my stories in one day: today. Whicn ensured i have a Merry Christmas.
I wanted to write a story about something different, an Art Deco building, but Fletch and Harry are such strong characters in my memory that they wheedled their way in.
There's a lesson there for everyone this Christmas -- friends have to be ready to forgive.
PS: Kenny and Margaret stayed friends for the rest of Ken's life.
It's tragic really, how this gorgeous young athlete was envied and admired, but the constant battle on court, which surely must evoke flight-fight adrenaline, wore out his resilience. Fortunately sports stars today talk publicly about their depression and their anxiety. But that's only happened very recently. In Fletcher's day I suppose he would have been told to buck up.
Very true Helen. Athletes were all supposed to be above anxiety -- but there had many more reasons to be anxious than us ordinary people. Yes, that phrase "buck up" was used a lot -- I remember my mother Olive using it on me often!
Too true Wombat. I have learned that each of the readers of my books reads a different text ... because each reader brings their own life to my tale, and so each interprets it differently. That's why every readers has their own favourite character -- and they like to tell me who it is!
Fantastic Hugh! There’s some wonderful reminiscences there. Funny how celebrities hang together.... How amazing were Kenny and Margaret on doubles. Great stuff!
Thanks Blake. That's why you and I hang out together!
Thank you so much Hugh for another great story! I really enjoyed reading more about Ken and Margaret's amazing doubles tennis successes. A pity about the falling out between Ken and Harry. Being born Australian and not British, might have made it difficult at times for Ken while he was living in London perhaps. The tennis fans certainly loved watching Ken in action at Wimbledon.
Thanks Peter, you've been catching up at Christmas -- sending comments on several of my stories in one day: today. Whicn ensured i have a Merry Christmas.
I wanted to write a story about something different, an Art Deco building, but Fletch and Harry are such strong characters in my memory that they wheedled their way in.
There's a lesson there for everyone this Christmas -- friends have to be ready to forgive.
PS: Kenny and Margaret stayed friends for the rest of Ken's life.
It's tragic really, how this gorgeous young athlete was envied and admired, but the constant battle on court, which surely must evoke flight-fight adrenaline, wore out his resilience. Fortunately sports stars today talk publicly about their depression and their anxiety. But that's only happened very recently. In Fletcher's day I suppose he would have been told to buck up.
Very true Helen. Athletes were all supposed to be above anxiety -- but there had many more reasons to be anxious than us ordinary people. Yes, that phrase "buck up" was used a lot -- I remember my mother Olive using it on me often!
I think your mother Olive says in one of your books "never borrow sorrow from tomorrow". She must have been a strong very loving woman.
Yes Helen, Olive was all that -- she knew how to get around me when I was down.
What a cast of characters !! Hugely enjoyable Hugh . Merry Christmas to you and yours..Bestwishes..Bob..
Thanks Bob: that's what I like doing -- capturing rare characters from around the world for the enjoyment of my readers. Merry Christmas to you to.
“We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.”
― Anaïs Nin
Too true Wombat. I have learned that each of the readers of my books reads a different text ... because each reader brings their own life to my tale, and so each interprets it differently. That's why every readers has their own favourite character -- and they like to tell me who it is!