Monday, August 13, 2012

Closing ceremony and that whole olympics thing

OK, so I did get into this whole Olympics thing with everyone else in London.

In fact, like everyone else in the country it seems. I think people round here did think it was a good thing and was going to be a success, just a bit more modest than it turned out. All the grim warnings about transport seemed to be OTT and us Londoners may, in fact, have had a slightly easier time getting to work for a while. The only transport annoyance for me, was the one way system at Canary Wharf tube station.

For the opening ceremony, after failing to get tickets like everyone else, I set the video (PVR) to record and was in the Intrepid Fox pub with a load of friends.

For the closing ceremony, I made more of an effort, with Marjorie, Nick and Big Phil, we went to the Blur gig in Hyde park. The big screens let us sit in the sun watching the gold won in boxing and bits of the closing concert before a very good blow out gig by Blur. Parklife!

And so what was my moment of the Olympics? It was after a day at the GBBF, drinking fine ales and doing well at the pub quiz. We retired to the pub around the corner for another beer and watched Mo Farah win his gold in the running. The noise!! was incredible as a couple of hundred people screamed and cheered and chanted at the TV. I was not surprised afterwards to find, from a sore throat, that I was one of them.