The good old stiff days.
(I wouldn't mind him going bananas*. But the country?)
That the first item in a news bulletin broadcast the following day was Andy Murray's win is
understandable. However, the fact that the otherwise serious BBC Radio 4devoted to the overdue breakthrough half of the total
time or so at the expense of revolutions, economic downturns, spies, etc. -
and interviewing his granny to boot - shook** my understanding of the British
character and made me realise to what frightening degree the local upper lip has
become soft.
** Or would have shaken if I hadn’t been exposed to some of
the coverage of the local Olympic Games or seen various food packaging with
ridiculous ‘lovingly hand-made’ on
it, or some such über-lyrical rubbish.
