“I think this year we focused too much on the peas and not enough on the steak.”

Spare a thought for the traders of London town as the great festival looms.

Was it last year’s landslide?

We gape as they snake up and up, the chocolate box backdrop not breathtaking because they have none to spare.

Irish showjumping first encountered the unsettling business of déjà vu when Denis Lynch withdrew in Beijing.

With Galway, nothing they really want is won

Twitter provided the Wimbledon Fact of the Week.

Tartan noir.

Not wrong.

As part of my diligent parenting programme, I will, as soon as there is any sense to be got out of the twins, invite Gilles Simon round to impart some valuable life lessons.