From Us To Oz

Roger Federer goes one better than Tom, but has the Swiss tennis ace ever discovered an unlikely link between Yorkshire and Australia?

- Tom Wrigglesworth

GOOD day to you dear reader, just to recap my previous two columns, I’m a proud new dad. Of eight week old twins. They’re not identical, which answers most people’s first question. Although when I’m out and about pushing a double buggy and someone asks ‘are they identical’ (which happens about once every thirty seconds on a quiet day), I’ve taken to replying ‘Well, one is identical, the other one is non-identical’. While this pithy remark has yet to illicit a single laugh, it doesn’t lessen my enjoyment of saying it. Whether you refer to them as ‘bizygotic’ (medical term), ‘fraternal’ (laymans term), or even ‘not proper twins’ (some bloke on the bus), multiple births are getting more and more common. And with a few celebrities endorsements from folk such as Beyonce, Clooney and Federer one might expect the trend to continue. Although naturally Roger and Mirka Federer have had two sets of twins, but I guess Federer was always going to beat everybody else.