Hi,Tassle Gang,
I know you can't say anything but having missed you at the opening
bonanza, are you in contention for a place in the closing ceremony?
Do hope so. Just a hint that you are practising will do!!! Anne

Never seen pole vaulting wheelchairs and crutches. The mind boggles but
knowing all your talents I'm sure there will be AT LEAST 6 medals.
Didn't realise hairdressing came into the line up. As everyone (including
audience will be wearing helmets Lyn should have fun with basin type cuts
She'll be wornout!! Will the trolley be around at halftime or have the
"official sponsors" have nobbled you? GOOD LUCK Anne

I've been giving the Olympics some very serious thought today and have decided that we should form a synchronized diving team. If we start training now, we should be in something like form (although what sort of form is open to debate) by the time the next Olympics is upon us. Maybe we could be the first team of four divers (two wheelchairs and four pairs of crutches). Doreen would be at the bottom of the board, poolside, banging her drum and dispensing the welcome cuppa. Steve is rigging up some old stepladders and bits of plywood over the duck pond in the field at the back of the house as I type, so we have somewhere to train. I've asked Julie M to work on the swimming costumes but am hoping she will get some preshrunk, non stretch wool or else all our wobbly bits could be exposed.

I'm not sure whether you all know, but Doreen is presently residing in Charring Cross Hospital with broken feet - who else would attempt to get into the pool in 8" platforms? I am sure she did it deliberately to attract all the attention from the lifeguards. Fortunately, Eleanor was on hand to spoon feed her some special cake and she was soon whisked off in a 'bulance. Kathleen didn't impress anyone in her Admiral's hat, especially as it came complete with The Ark Royal. I've just heard on the news that traffic is now totally gridlocked around London. Be ashamed, Kathleen, be VERY ashamed. And as for Lyn - oh my goodness - how did she get into the cross country event and cut the tail and mane off Zara's horse?

Just off now to try and make my wheelchair adaptable to springs and stuff which will hurl me out at high velocitude! Does anyone have any contacts at NASA?

Is Sheila keeping quiet because she is preparing to snuff out the Olympic flame (flames)
with her well aimed cannon? Anne

I thought HRH and I did the Gay Gordons quite well, all things considered, Eleanor, though he`s a bit heavy-handed when it comes to the twirling around bit - not my fault the ark royal fell off.

The Commonwealth Games are to be in Glasgow - I think I`ll do the cycling, as long as I can keep Lyn away from my tyres. I`m distancing myself from Doreen and her battered old trolley, and I won`t be having any tea from her - I don`t want to end up in hospital like HRH. Who knows when that trolley was last cleaned? I`ll have a slice of your cake, though, before I pedal off into the hall of fame.

The least said about Jean the better - one set of headlines after another, and all of them notorious. What on earth made her think she could pole-vault in a deep pond in a public park?

I believe Jean was wearing the ones you knitted for her, those ones in the nice Fairisle pattern.

You mean you didn't knit a thong for her?

Oh no----not again...........