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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 29 Jul 2010 22:39

lol Sue, she probably will say that nothing much has changed around here....still needs a lick of paint and a good dust. ;)

SueMaid

SueMaid Report 29 Jul 2010 22:36

We were just saying how funny that you put this thread up just as we were chatting because Lynda wouldn't have looked in otherwise.

Sue xx

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 29 Jul 2010 22:35

Lynda has just send me a lovely email....well she is lovely. We talked about the Olympics and she said to say hello to all the sane people on GR :)

I'm not sure whether I would be included in that but she'd already said hello to me anyway lol


~~~waves to Lynda~~~~~

SueMaid

SueMaid Report 29 Jul 2010 22:22

Don't need to say hello - Lynda has looked in and enjoyed your posts:-))

Sue xx

Rambling

Rambling Report 29 Jul 2010 22:13

and hello from me too please SueMaid :))

Researching:

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 29 Jul 2010 22:12

Say hello from me Sue :)

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 29 Jul 2010 22:11

I hope she does too. It's been too quiet without Lynda and Uggers.

SueMaid

SueMaid Report 29 Jul 2010 22:11

I'm chatting with Lynda right now:-))

Sue xx

JoyBoroAngel

JoyBoroAngel Report 29 Jul 2010 22:08

i do hope she looks in and sees it lesley x

Researching:
The birth of Middlesbrough

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2**

~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 29 Jul 2010 21:47

as I know she loves London, the Olympics and discussions about rationing.

When London last staged the Olympics in 1948, money was so tight, athletes slept in military huts and leftover food went to local hospitals. Tuesday marks two years to the day until the 2012 Games - what lessons can be learned?

There was no showpiece stadium or aquatic centre, no sleek athletes' village smelling of fresh paint and new upholstery.

London's 1948 Olympics instead had to make do and mend, just as the country had done during World War II - was still doing, in fact, as food, clothing, construction materials and petrol were rationed. The city was a bomb site, many of its buildings pockmarked or toppled in the Blitz, the rubble simply brushed into piles.

Organised in less than two years and with a budget of £730,000, it was a pared-down and practical affair. By contrast, the 2012 Games is expected to cost £7.267bn.

Medals were made of oxidised silver instead of gold. And because of food rationing, competing countries contributed provisions. "The Dutch sent over 100 tons of fruit and vegetables for all the teams. Denmark gave 160,000 eggs. Czechoslovakia gave 20,000 mineral water bottles," recalled Olympic librarian Sandy Duncan in a documentary on the BBC Archive website.

More at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10659711

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/olympics_1948/