Category Archives: Olympics
Twenty reasons to love these Olympics (and they’re only 2 days old)
The volunteers – they’re everywhere, they are helpful, they are the heart and soul of the Olympics THANKS The army – cancelling holidays to make this work – brilliant efficient reassuring THANKS Danny Boyle for helping us understand why we’re proud … Continue reading
Posted in London, Olympics, Olympics 2012
Tagged Boris Johnson, Danny Boyle, Dorney Lake, London, Mark Cavendish, Olympic, Olympic Games, Windsor Bridge
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It’s not just about medal tables!
I’ve been rude about the Olympic Park before now, earlier in the year I took the family to a warm up event which turned out to be an exercise in lock down, it rained, we saw little and we got cold. … Continue reading
Posted in Occupy London, Olympics, Olympics 2012, pension playpen
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Events, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, Olympic symbols, Sport, Summer Games
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Come Racing at Windsor!
All summer long we’ve been waiting for some sun, and whew- it’s come! London‘s best kept secret is Windsor races on a Monday night. Whatever racecourse let you arrive by boat? Where else do the stallhandlers bunk off from their … Continue reading
Posted in Horse racing, Olympics, Olympics 2012
Tagged Dorney, England, Eton, Eton College, London, Monday, Monday Night Football, Windsor Star
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Bradley Wiggins joins the pantheon of the greats – Tour de France 2012
By Matt Seaton guardian.co.uk This is a wonderful peice of journalism from someone who throughly deserves to write Bradley Wiggins eulogy; what Wiggins has done deserves such writing. There were more than a few people, myself included, who privately thought … Continue reading
Posted in Olympics, wiggins
Tagged 2012 Tour de France, Bradley Wiggin, Chris Froome, Dave Brailsford, Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong, Team Sky, Tour de France, Wiggins
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Reformation The Mallowstreet Party
Vincent Franklin looked out from what used to be the roof of City Telephone Exchange. The Exchange (according to Con Keating) had walls fifteen metres thick and had been built to withstand a nuclear bomb. They’d pulled it down to … Continue reading
Posted in Bankers, Change, Church of England, corporate governance, economics, Fred Goodwin, leadership, mallowstreet, Olympics, Olympics 2012, pension playpen, pensions, redington, Retirement
Tagged Business, dc pensions, Financial services, Human Resources, pension playpen, Pension Poverty, pensions, Retirement, Society
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Do not be terrorised by anti-terrorism.
I feel like a stranger in my own City. This is not my London that I live in, it is a town that has been handed over to the security forces. We are a town under threat of a “known … Continue reading
Posted in London, Olympics, Olympics 2012
Tagged England, London, Olympic, Olympic Games, River Thames, Security guard, Surface-to-air missile, Thames
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