THE SPORTING EXTRAVAGANZA FINISHES ON SUNDAY...

Well life here in good old MELBOURNE TOWN has been

rolling along for the last 9 days in what one might

call sporting heaven!

The Commonwealth Games are being held here and

what a sporting extravaganza, it... has been so far.

Australia has been playing...OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM

so much that every citizen knows the words off by

heart now... A feat...I AM VERY sure WAS NOTpossible

before the games started.

But I find myself secretly hoping that some little out of

the way nation gets up for any coloured medal on offer.

IT IS...lovely to be very patriotic and barrack for ones own

but on the other hand it is lovely for little nations who

come and compete...TO BE able to get up and win a medal

and to hear their National Anthem played.

The weather for this event has been sublime WE COULD

NOT HAVE...ordered better if one tried. The temperature has

been hovering around 23% through to 30% so one

COULDN'T have wished for any better.

One of the African teams... are missing half their team

and the police are searching for them. I guess they

have seen the life here and are wishing to stay on. "Who

in this world could blame them?"

We are a BLESSED and LUCKY Country thanks to our

FORBEARS. Oh! Well these 10 days of elite sportsmanship

ends on Sunday evening. And our wonderful AUTUMN WEATHER

will go on...A TRULY WONDERFUL TIME OF YEAR!!!

23:54 - Saturday, March 25, 2006 - post comment