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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    An Olympic hero 👍 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60365580  

    I watched him yesterday … he completed the course in a howling blizzard … good for him. 😎 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Anyone who has been following the progress of the 'Vimes Boots Index' will find this thread cheering and quite moving:
    https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1492538937067606016

    (If you don't know about this, there's some background here:
    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index )
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    An Olympic hero 👍 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60365580  

    I watched him yesterday … he completed the course in a howling blizzard … good for him. 😎 

    I love this quote from him. "If you finish you beat everyone who doesn't," said Jamaican skier Benjamin Alexander hours before he took to the slopes at Beijing 2022.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Nice quote from him 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I saw him @Dovefromabove. Doesn't it just lift your spirits. If we never push ourselves, we'd achieve nothing.  

    RTBC today is that it's finally stopped raining. [kiss of death!] Simple pleasures.  :)

    Mind you - Wednesday and Thursday here don't look too grand  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Much of the true Olympic Spirit was destroyed after Eddie the Eagle.  He was the best the country had so was entered.  After that the authorities started changing the rules so only those thought to have a chance of getting a medal were allowed to enter.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited February 2022
    Who can compete depends on the individual national federations ... the Olympic organisation itself does not restrict entry to those of a certain standard 

    https://olympics.com/ioc/faq/competing-and-being-part-of-the-games
     :) 
    Jamaica was happy to enter Benjamin Alexander (who was born in the UK ... his parent/s emigrated from Jamaica) I think he was self-funding. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Been potting some seeds in the g/h and a Robin decided it was much nicer inside than out, so came to join me.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    That really does lift the spirits doesn't it @punkdoc B)
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Makes a nice change to be able to post on here. The weather was glorious on the beach 12c, sat on the prom out of the wind. There were roses and deep pink osteospermums,and purple Hebes in flower. Our solar panels are being installed in just over 2 weeks. Got the grandkids next week,half term. Haven't seen them since Christmas day 
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