British icon – Wimbledon
Wimbledon is one of Britain’s great icons. Tennis on grass courts, not clay. Players clad in their pristine tennis whites. The gentle sounds of tennis balls bouncing from racquet strings, the thunk-thunk of the ball, polite outbursts of applause.
And, of course, strawberries and cream.
There’s something very British – very middle-class British – about Wimbledon. For instance, the queue. It may not always be apparent when you’re waiting for a bus – not nowadays – but we like to think that while the French have cheese, and the Germans have beer and sausages, we have queues. We’ve made them into a …read more
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