Paralympics

I was lucky enough to visit the Olympic Park yesterday and, although I didn't visit any actual events, the atmosphere was thrilling. I hadn't really been involved at all before now, but this is definitely something to get excited about. I had to share the love somehow, so here are a couple of photographs. which I took whilst there. I wish I could have recorded the sounds for you as well; the applause, the bickering but happy families, the megaphones, the slightly incongruous brass quartet (or maybe it was a quintet, I didn't actually count). And wow there was a lot of facepaint.

I saw the Olympic torch being taken down the Thames today. It put me in a sporty mood, so I'm going swimming. If you're not really feeling it, and even if you are, take a look at this great video (especially the first half).

I am, of course, eating strawberries today. And I've had the scoring system explained to me, because it's the Wimbledon finals. And so, I have a tennis-themed post. It's a piece of
archive footage, showing the tennis fashions of 1968. It's incredible, and very endearing, to see what was - in 1968 - the most up-to-date, man-made equipment. And the narration is also funny to listen to.