Olympic Games

[annew]

That would be certain death Vivien as custard (if it contains cornflour) is a non-Newtonian liquid and if he tried to dive into it it would be like hitting concrete.
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He'd be OK if he cooked the custard first though?

[Anthony Darby]

Here's Andy's post box at the Cathedral end of the high street, and the stamp. The box was being painted at 7.00 a.m. this morning. What a pity it's one of the modern ones. I've ordered some stamps from the Royal Mail.

[art600]

I think it will be difficult to beat last Saturday in the Olympic Stadium for excitement - wish I had been there.

Usain Bolt was the hottest ticket with apparently 2 million people wanting tickets for Sunday evening, but it did not compare to Andy playing the most exisquite teniis to beat Roger Federer, and then nearly beating the number one seeds - vastly more experienced and a regular pairing - with Laura Robson after no practice.

Looking forward to more in the velodrome - will every event be won in world reord time!

Fingers crossed the Mo can win on Saturday.

I hope that Beth Tweddle can get the medal her dedication deserves - so sad to see Louis Smith beaten by the rules.

[annew]

Just found out that the beautiful olympic flame flower/cauldron was made in my village!

[Brian Ellis]

You must have been busy Anne

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9395.msg252533#msg252533

 

[Lesley Cox]

YES David. That was TRUE! about the Aussie papers not publishing NZ's place in the medal count. They admitted it and one commentator said "of course NZ has more gold that Australia but we won't discuss that." We still have more gold though fewer overall. But what does it matter so long as everyone performs well and most of all, has a great time? We did have great hopes of Valerie Adams in the shot put but them's the breaks. I expect Australia will catch up as they usually do well in track and field. The X factor we've not seen before until 2008, is the massive entry at top level, of the Chinese, especially in things like gymnastics, swimming/diving and other things. Where, for instance in the medal table, is Russia? Not even mentioned in the top 10 so far as I can see. Of course as Russia instead of the Soviet Union, they've lost many of the smaller countries like Kazakhstan, Belarusse (sorry about the spelling) and others. 

[vivienr]

I had forgotten about the thixotropic(?) property of custard, but I like it very runny so I reckon I could have got it to work.

After 5 Andy Murray matches in the last three days my nerves are completely shot but I am SO HAPPY.

 

 I hope the postbox has not been repainted before the next Dunblane show.

ps On Look North this lunchtime they said that if Yorkshire was a country it would be 13th in the medal table!

[David Shaw]

There is a SRGC Summer Show in Dunblane on 18 August, Vivien. You could come up and join the pilgrimage to 'the' postbox then!

[Brian Ellis]

On Look North this lunchtime they said that if Yorkshire was a country it would be 13th in the medal table!

By 'eck, that would mean we were ahead of cuba, Belarus, New Zealand, South Africa, Ukraine, Japan, Australia, Denmark ......

wonder where we'll end up!

 

[Anthony Darby]

What do you mean if Yorkshire was a country?

[David Nicholson]

Yeah! I missed that. It's God's own.

[Brian Ellis]

Another Gold for Yorkshire, well done Alistair Brownlee 

[Brian Ellis]

and Bronze for Jonathan too!

[Anthony Darby]

..and not a black pudding in sight!

[Maggi Young]

 Read today that Scotland now accounts for a third of the GB golds and more than a quarter of the medals overall – outstripping our proportion of the population.
 
Reports have said our contribution is so impressive that a Scotland team would be sixth on the medal table.
 
 Ulster althetes are also doing well... and Beth Tweddle got her Bronze yesterday to add to the English tally that so memorably includes Wiggo, Ennis and Farrah:  heck, the  whole of the UK is going like a train! 
So much success in so many sports- sailing, equstrian, rowing..... the home crowd's roars must surely be doing the trick!