olympics

[cardiffsteve]

taff - I don't want to fall out over this.

You use the word 'Conversely' but you seem to be in general agreement. I'm not actually fussed about sport myself, and football, especially, is abominable. What is frustrating is not whether someone agrees or disagrees (Absolutely no problem with that, who could have?) but the need to react instantly and thoughtlessly. Thankfully, almost everyone here is not like that which is why I enjoy this forum so much.

Let's not then
Yes, you appear to be correct, and I reserve the right to grasp completely the wrong end of any stick that is waved in front of me
What I said, the last bit anyway, still stands, but you deserve my wholehearted apologies for grasping that stick, and flinging it about with gay abandon

Well said and my apologies also. I will try to be less sensitive about it. The "trolling" prevalent on many forums is not much in evidence here and I would be disappinted were it to increase and spoil this forum.

Also, I will stoutly defend your right to grasp any end of whichever stick you may wish to flail in any manner.

Kestrel

Will you two just get a room

[Tripmeup]

Well done to Katie Taylor..1st Gold for Ireland..yay..!!

[alldigging]

The flowers look amazing at the Olympic park!

[cardiffsteve]

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The flowers look amazing at the Olympic park!

Dont know if this is okay to post but this is the supplier.
We use them in our place and have sowed them around Newport City centre and get lots of phone calls from people saying they are lovely.

Pictorial Meadows Seeds

[alldigging]

Thanks for that!

The flowers really grab people's attention .. Loads of people stopping to admire them and take photos.

[bearded bloke]

*on me way there >>>>>

[cardiffsteve]

The kitteh doing better than Tom Daley at the moment..

[veggiechicken]

A poem by Carol Ann Duffy

A summer of rain, then a gap in the clouds
and The Queen jumped from the sky
to the cheering crowds.
               We speak Shakespeare here,
a hundred tongues, one-voiced; the moon bronze or silver,
sun gold, from Cardiff to Edinburgh
               by way of London Town,
on the Giant's Causeway;
we say we want to be who we truly are,
now, we roar it. Welcome to us.
We've had our pockets picked,
               the soft, white hands of bankers,
bold as brass, filching our gold, our silver;
we want it back.
We are Mo Farah lifting the 10,000 metres gold.
We want new running-tracks in his name.
For Jessica Ennis, the same; for the Brownlee brothers,
Rutherford, Ohuruogu, Whitlock, Tweddle,
for every medal earned,
we want school playing-fields returned.
Enough of the soundbite abstract nouns,
austerity, policy, legacy, of tightening metaphorical belts;
we got on our real bikes,
for we are Bradley Wiggins,
               side-burned, Mod, god;
we are Sir Chris Hoy,
Laura Trott, Victoria Pendleton, Kenny, Hindes,
Clancy, Burke, Kennaugh and Geraint Thomas,
               Olympian names.
We want more cycle lanes.
               Or we saddled our steed,
or we paddled our own canoe,
or we rowed in an eight or a four or a two;
our names, Glover and Stanning; Baillie and Stott;
Adlington, Ainslie, Wilson, Murray,
               Valegro (Dujardin's horse).
We saw what we did. We are Nicola Adams and Jade Jones,
bring on the fighting kids.
               We sense new weather.
We are on our marks. We are all in this together.

[Alison]

Not really known what to do with myself today, have loved watching all sorts of sports, even the ones where I don't have a clue about the rules Now have a couple of weeks to catch up on jobs before the Paralympics kicks off - can't wait.

[bearded bloke]