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Julia Carrot wrote:

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I see that all Crete has ben enveloped in Saharan red dust the last few days, and up to this evening. I imagine that is the reason there has been interruptions/ delays
in play? Not a healthy environment to play in for sure.

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Sounds horrendous!    May explain the poor quality of the stream, though... 

Stircrazy wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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L16:  (6) Henry Searle WR 470 defeated (Q) Yassine Smiej (MAR) WR 1443 by 1 & 2

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QF:   (6) Henry Searle WR 470 vs (4) Ioannis Xilas (GRE) WR 352 (CH = 347 last month)

Am I the only being plagued by the ITF's infuriating cookie policy notice, which this week seems to take up more of the lower part of the page than it used to (still irritating) & won't take "no" (i.e. "decline") or even "yes" ("accept") for an answer, popping up every time a different page is selected?   

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 Well I certainly found it impossible to view the score because of all the gubbins at the bottom of the streaming screen. 

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Thursday 2nd of April 2026 02:01:44 PM

Coup Droit wrote:

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As a complete aside, I do SO like the word 'gubbins', Julia

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Julia Carrot wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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As a complete aside, I do SO like the word 'gubbins', Julia

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Long time since I've seen/heard it used!  I agree that it's a useful substitute if you can't remember the name of the thing you want to refer to & a definite step up from "thingamajig", "whatsit" or "doodah".    That said, I've always liked Hitchc0ck's "MacGuffin", though that was a term  he always used to describe something that's essential to the plot of a film, play or book, but insignificant in itself. 

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Ah, but 'gubbins'  is  not usually stuff you can't remember the name of, more often a  medley of stuff,  some not worthy of a name, (or deemed not worthy anyway).  My sister, who is posher than me,  uses it alot, me, not so much. 

Julia Carrot wrote:

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Stircrazy wrote:

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Julia Carrot wrote:

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Coup Droit wrote:

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As a complete aside, I do SO like the word 'gubbins', Julia

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Long time since I've seen/heard it used!  I agree that it's a useful substitute if you can't remember the name of the thing you want to refer to & a definite step up from "thingamajig", "whatsit" or "doodah".    That said, I've always liked Hitchc0ck's "MacGuffin", though that was a term  he always used to describe something that's essential to the plot of a film, play or book, but insignificant in itself. 

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Ah, but 'gubbins'  is  not usually stuff you can't remember the name of, more often a  medley of stuff,  some not worthy of a name, (or deemed not worthy anyway).  My sister, who is posher than me,  uses it alot, me, not so much. 

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 My dad says gubbins a lot and uses it exactl

like this, a mish mash of stuff. Hes not posh though (hes from liverpool - although Im sure Liverpool has lots of lovely posh folks!). 

Well, I'm exhausted after watching Henry's first set.... What a tussle !! Sadly he lost 9-10 in the tie break. Very windy conditions for serving which I though he managed better than his opponent, but some long tiring rallies and having saved many set points he lost the last one.