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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Dowling

Tim Dowling: the tennis has reached boiling point – and so have we

Tim Dowling

When the sun is out and the weather is hot, my office shed becomes sauna-like long before midday. By 11am, I retreat to the kitchen to work. By noon, the kitchen is also too hot to work in, and I move to the living room, where I find the oldest one and the middle one sitting on the sofa in the dark, their faces illuminated by their laptop screens.

“This is the place to be,” I say.

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