Non-tennis News

[RoastLamb]

2 today

We have a lot of hawks here because we're right next to the Niagara escarpment. They often swoop into our back garden and take the sparrows off the bird feeder. Once they took a squirrel.

[cazza99]

ye, dont really like the roof not sure it will take

Wow, that was rather a scenic job.

[Sallydaisy]

The Olympic flame is being lit today in Greece - see this article on the BBC website. It's then taken around Greece for a week before being flown to the UK to start it's 70day tour of our country ahead of the start of the Olympics on 27th July.

[Sallydaisy]

RIP Robin Gibb who has died from cancer - report here on the BBC.

[traveller7]

sad to hear the passing of Robin Gibb, another star been lit in the sky :(

[RoastLamb]

Not a surprise but still so sad. Three of the Bee Gees gone. The oldest son, Barry, is still alive.

[JAMES4578]

Yes agree,expected really but still very sorry that Robin is now gone. Donna Summer's demise was also very sad.

[RoastLamb]

Don't know if this is news, I guess it is. But tomorrow evening some American dude is going to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope and the tv is covering it. Hasn't been done for 100 years. They're expecting a gazillion people to come to NF. I'm staying WELL AWAY.

[pabbers]

And apparently he's already lost, I think it was 3, members of his family who made the same attempt!

[RoastLamb]

I don't know if it was 3 but he did lose his great-grandfather to a tightrope walk accident but it wasn't over the Falls.

In 1978, at age 73, Wallenda attempted a walk between the two towers of the ten-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 37 metres (121 ft) above the pavement, but fell to his death when winds exceeded 48 kilometres per hour (30 miles per hour). The Wallenda family attributes the tragedy to "several misconnected guide ropes along the wire" and not the windy conditions.

Wikipedia source