In Black & White.

We got a black-and-white television set in about 1961 with prominent dials an indoor aerial, and a curve-corner screen that told you things straight. Colour replaced black and white in the '70s so that the TV screen got closer to reality and the virtual world attracted more viewers. There were only two or three channels in those days. The Olympic Games and Tennis Opens now shone with orange cinder tracks, the grass strips of Wimbledon, the red clay of Roland Garrigues and blue plexigrass of other Grand Slam venues. I see flat-screen, digital sets in shops now: their slim presence lights up the show room whether the screen is 32-inch or 42-inch, LED, LCD, or Plasma of the virtual world. -12 June,2015.