Colonel Irrelevant

12 Aug

Olympics

How often can you see top sportsmen and women competing in all kinds of daft things that you’d never normally watch and still get enthralled? Synchronised diving, Archery, Judo, Canoeing, etc. are all sports that I am aware of but also ones that I’d never bother watching normally. I’m thinking that I might just have [...]

17 May

A Sporting First

I attended the Guides Swimming Gala tonight with No.1 Child. Very competitive and pretty good really. One Brownie was exceptional. Fastest swimmer in any age group by my reckoning. Shame she will be too young for London 2012. Which makes me think that there must be loads of Olympic hopefuls out there that only people [...]

07 Apr

Daily Mail

I flew to Munich this morning and had the dubious privilege of reading the Daily Mail. I was quite upbeat (given that the alarm didn’t go off) but reading the paper makes you fel dirty and depressed! They had a good dig at the Olympic Torch trogging through London yesterday. The situation in Tibet is [...]

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