David Bailey, eat your heart out
photos!
More David Bailey action has seen a whole heap more photos being processed. They are all scanned in, and I just have to tidy them up and put words with them – look for the skiing ones (to go with the skiing entry in the diary archive) within the next day or so.
But for today… a photo of me at work, so you can see how I look, if you have all forgotten.
olympic fever
Well, I didn’t think that I would care so much about the olympics (not being able to play any sport decently), but was touched by a little of the hype over the weekend.
First of all I got to go with George to the Olympic torch relay function at Flemington Racecourse, where the torch was ending the day. We got to go because George is working for AMP as a temp at the moment (they are sponsoring the relay), but we were more interested in the free drink and food that was on offer.
George? Unlimited free champagne? Yes, it was as bad as you are probably imagining.
We did manage to get to hold one of the torches that has been used in the relay (all very strange) and I was able to take some comedy photos involving the mascots, Ollie, Syd and Millie, who were wandering around in the crowd. They will be up here very soon, I have no doubt.
But the large crowd, some stirring music and a certain amount of cheese did get the skin tingling as the flame approached the crowd. Then Bart Cummings (a celebrated Aussie trainer) lit the cauldron, and that was it. All a bit anti-climactic, but never mind.
What was probably a highlight of the night, a fireworks display, was missed because of the gorging of our faces on the remaining cheese (different to the earlier cheese – this was a lovely Brie) and a run to the train.
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The next day saw a trip to the MCG to see some Aussie-rules football [and, specifically, the Demons and Geelong]. Getting there a little later than we should have meant that we had to sit on the very back row of the tallest three-tier stand in the ground, which gave us an amazing view, and just a little vertigo.
But here we managed to cross paths with the torch relay again, and this time to see a re-enactment of the moment when Melbourne held the games in 1956 and the torch was brought into the MCG.
It is quite amazing how your emotions are charged by being part of a large crowd (there were 75,000+ people there), and the whole atmosphere and experience was quite something. You can tell that the Australians are really starting to get caught up in the whole ‘Olympics’ thing now, and starting to forget everything that has gone wrong so far.
Oh yeah, and we watched the game, too…
but what about the couch?
mmmm. new couch. very comfy.