Gold Medallists

I love the Olympics.  I rarely take much interest in sports on TV, but there’s something about all the nations of the world competing together that does it for me.  The fact that this year they’re in my home town, makes me prouder than a proud thing.  And I have tickets!  I’m as excited as a small child on Christmas Eve, I probably won’t sleep a wink the night before the opening ceremony.

I’m pretty much interested in absolutely everything about the Olympics.  Nothing passes my notice.  So when Royal Mail asked me to write about their new stamps, I said YES!  Did you know that they’re producing a special stamp for every single one of the Team GB Gold Medallists, THE VERY NEXT DAY?  This is the first time it’s ever been done, at any Olympics anywhere.  Not the first Royal Mail Olympic stamps, obviously, they had them in 1948, but the first stamps commemorating individual gold medallists.

Throughout the games, the Royal Mail’s team of picture editors, graphic designers, printers and drivers will be on standby, waiting with baited breath and ready to swing into action when Team GB strikes gold.  Which they will often, I hope.  The main image of the stamp will, wherever possible, be a photograph of the Team GB athlete or team in action from their gold medal winning final. If it’s not, it’ll be taken from a heat or from their winning moment on the podium

The special stamps will be produced overnight and put on sale at 500 Post Offices by lunchtime the next day and on www.royalmail.com.  They will also be distributed  during the Games to a further 4,500 Post Offices nationwide.  Some Post Offices will even be open on Sundays for the first time!  There will also be Paralympic stamps and everything.

So, what do you think?  There’s an awful lot of Olympic inspired tat out there, but I do like a stamp.  I shall be buying.

Register your interest now and Be The First to get the new stamps!

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The Wet

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Water drips in fat splashy drops from every leaf of every tree.  It stopped raining half an hour ago, but it’s never dry.  Won’t be for months.  We’re right in the middle of the wet season, after the humid, temper-inducing build up, and before the violent storms of the knock ‘em down season.  Over a couple of months, the heavens are dumping their annual load of rain on Australia’s tropical far north.  

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It’s begging time again

Do you remember that a while back, I asked you to vote for me in two separate blogging competitions?  Well it appears that someone was actually listening, as I’ve reached the finals of both!

The Brilliance in Blogging awards are now decided by a panel of judges, so we’ll just have to wait and see on that front, but the MAD Blog Awards are decided by you, the readers of blogs.  If you could kindly see your way to voting for me AGAIN, you could have the satisfaction of being friends with an award winning blogger.  Which is surely too good an opportunity to miss, isn’t it?

 

Snowball fights

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We were on Hawaii’s Big Island when it started snowing in the UK.  Sleeping in the jungle and being eaten by mozzies.  The children were disappointed that they were missing out on a snow day in London, remembering the wonderful day two years ago when the city stopped and the whole neighbourhood congregated on the Common to play.  We pointed out that they were missing nine months of school, which mollified them somewhat, but over the last month their one true complaint, has been jealousy of their friends on the snow front.

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Honu

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Watching Honu

The day before we left was an unreal, suspended in aspic, last forever kind of day.  Like a long overdue pregnancy, I desperately wanted what was going to happen to happen, but knew that the getting there would be arduous.  The hours before we were due to leave for the airport stretched in front of us, heavy with nervous expectation and the potential for something to go wrong.

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Souvenir special edition

This week I’ve been poring over twelve month’s worth of news about Kate and Wills in Hello Magazine.  And I’ve been inspired by their nifty wheeze of regurgitating a year’s worth of material in one go, and selling it as a special edition.  So today I am launching the It’s a small world after all special edition.  Since we got home, I’ve loved re-reading my blog. I’m so confident that you will too I’m offering a money back guarantee*.  Every week for the next however long it takes, I’m going to re-publish a couple of posts for your enjoyment.  Don’t say I don’t spoil you.

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Awards, glory, something

I was going to try and write something eloquent and funny, but frankly I’m too lazy.  Instead I’ll say that if you’ve enjoyed reading about our exploits I’d be very grateful if you could spend two minutes showing your appreciation.

I’ve been shortlisted for a Brilliance in Blogging Award.  If you could see your way to voting for me in category seven, Go!, I’d be eversograteful.

Also, if you fancied nominating me for a MAD award (I was a finalist a couple of years back) I’d love you forever.  You have to nominate a blogger of the year *looks modest* then you can vote in as many categories as you like.  There’s a new travel category this year I’ve got my eye on…

The cheque’s in the post.