please empty your brain below
I find out more about these matters on your blog than from the Broadsheets.

A Wildlife Gardener | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 8:07 a.m. | #

Interesting.

This is about the only time I've ever seen anything related to Prescott described as quiet!

Richard Gillin | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 9:13 a.m. | #

By what would appear at first glance to be an amazing coincidence I did almost the same thing yesterday. I happened to be at Three Mills when I discovered that there was a none-to-popular "Olympic Walk" due to start in a few minutes. So it was that the genial octogenerian guide, me and my dog went for a walk around "the olympic site".

Well I have to say it was different. A cynic would say it was a walk around a load of unappealing industrial units in a desolate landscape in the cold and the rain. But for me the dog needed a walk anyway, the riverways and canals were fascinating as was the history of the place and one day I will be able to say "I remember this when it was all a derelict and a none-to-salubrious and decaying industrial area". And the genial old gentleman even insisted on buying me a cup of tea in the tearooms afterwards.

I reckon I therefore get some positive score on the sociability scale even if I only really chatted with one person.

Pedantic of Purley | 05.03.07 - 9:18 a.m. | #

Thanks for mentioning this. Extensive press releases were sent to all and sundry but few picked it up - it would seem only bad news about the Olympics is welcome. Hopefully now it has been on DG it will get more attention!

Ian | 05.03.07 - 10:16 a.m. | #

So it's not just the football team stinking out West Ham, then.

Inspector Sands | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 11:07 a.m. | #

Ah. Memories of Big Brother when it was still an interesting social experiment.
Just noticed that the BB2 house still survives here

Dave | 05.03.07 - 11:30 a.m. | #

Is this a repost? Serious case of deja vu here. I'm sure I read this entry several months ago.

Ben | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 12:32 p.m. | #

Ben - A bit of paragraph two is based on something I wrote four years ago, but the rest is all very new.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 6:34 p.m. | #

That's the one! I was remembering your bit on the Big Breakfast House as well. I think it was just the picture of the bridge that stirred something in my addled brain.

Ben | Homepage | 05.03.07 - 6:55 p.m. | #

Very interesting. An excellent interdepartmental solution... let's hope it actually happens...

Ian | Homepage | 06.03.07 - 3:33 p.m. | #

So the pong will no longer wash back up into the Olympics "Park". A shame for those marching up the Southern Pedestrian Spectator Mall aka the Greenway that on those of the fifty stormy days falling in August they'll still go past the Channelsea aka Abbey Creek though, and with less tidal flow no doubt the pong will linger longer there. Or will they find the dosh to fix the Northern Outfall too?

Lee Delta | Homepage | 08.03.07 - 10:37 p.m. | #











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