A little more on the Olympic torch
Hi everyone
If you go back to Tuesdays post about the Olympic torch through Hawarden you will see that Joanna (Craftyjo) has left a comment.
Joanna is right there have been lots of negative comments about this event. The things I have heard have been mainly about the amount of money spent on the torches - but did you know that if you were chosen you were asked to pay for the torch - that is why you were allowed to keep it & why some have sold theirs to raise money for various reasons. I don't know what happened if you couldn't or wouldn't pay for the torch - perhaps then you didn't keep it. There were also comments about all the torch bearers wearing the white track suits - well perhaps they had to pay for those too. I don't know - I am just thinking.
I was really pleased that the event passed the end of my road but I was a little surprised to find out today that it didn't go to Mold - our County seat?
I guess I belong to the old school - I love everything patriotic. Yes there is waste sometimes in these grand events that are put on - but this year there are 2 things we will not see again in our lifetime. Or perhaps I should say in my lifetime. The Olympics is not likely to come this way again for a very long time. I think that it is great it has happened this year when we have the diamond jubilee to celebrate as well. A way to show the rest of the world what Great Britain is all about, & I think that the event in Hawarden on Tuesday showed just that. If you didn't believe in these things would you go out & buy an alice band with bouncy union flags on them; would you stand in the street for an hour or more waving flags - that 99% of the time were upside down. (The manufacturers fault). No.
Years ago - when I was about 11 the Queen & Princess Margaret came to Portsmouth & all my family went to the nearest point we could get to, to see them pass through the area. The car went by at a reasonable pace that we really only just caught a glimpse of them. Now I think about it if I was 11 the Queen might not yet have been the Queen hence she was only with Princess Margaret. I had to wait until a couple of weeks ago to get a better view of her. I tell you - it was worth the wait.
I hope in your area you are having parties & celebrating & I hope we do well in the Olympics. My friend has an ancestor who won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics. At those Olympics we won 56 gold medals, 51 silver & 39 Bronze. A total of 146 medals & we were ranked number 1. Lets see what 2012 has in store.
Wow! get me going on.
If you go back to Tuesdays post about the Olympic torch through Hawarden you will see that Joanna (Craftyjo) has left a comment.
Joanna is right there have been lots of negative comments about this event. The things I have heard have been mainly about the amount of money spent on the torches - but did you know that if you were chosen you were asked to pay for the torch - that is why you were allowed to keep it & why some have sold theirs to raise money for various reasons. I don't know what happened if you couldn't or wouldn't pay for the torch - perhaps then you didn't keep it. There were also comments about all the torch bearers wearing the white track suits - well perhaps they had to pay for those too. I don't know - I am just thinking.
I was really pleased that the event passed the end of my road but I was a little surprised to find out today that it didn't go to Mold - our County seat?
I guess I belong to the old school - I love everything patriotic. Yes there is waste sometimes in these grand events that are put on - but this year there are 2 things we will not see again in our lifetime. Or perhaps I should say in my lifetime. The Olympics is not likely to come this way again for a very long time. I think that it is great it has happened this year when we have the diamond jubilee to celebrate as well. A way to show the rest of the world what Great Britain is all about, & I think that the event in Hawarden on Tuesday showed just that. If you didn't believe in these things would you go out & buy an alice band with bouncy union flags on them; would you stand in the street for an hour or more waving flags - that 99% of the time were upside down. (The manufacturers fault). No.
Years ago - when I was about 11 the Queen & Princess Margaret came to Portsmouth & all my family went to the nearest point we could get to, to see them pass through the area. The car went by at a reasonable pace that we really only just caught a glimpse of them. Now I think about it if I was 11 the Queen might not yet have been the Queen hence she was only with Princess Margaret. I had to wait until a couple of weeks ago to get a better view of her. I tell you - it was worth the wait.
I hope in your area you are having parties & celebrating & I hope we do well in the Olympics. My friend has an ancestor who won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics. At those Olympics we won 56 gold medals, 51 silver & 39 Bronze. A total of 146 medals & we were ranked number 1. Lets see what 2012 has in store.
Wow! get me going on.
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