Nothing at all to do with the Olympics

But it is Sam Williams scoring a last minute penalty for Dagenham against Fleetwood today. Warning: contains strong language, mostly related to how sh*t their goalkeeper is.

And here is the shell of the Dagenham programme shop, burnt out after it was 'maliciously arsonned' as the PA put it

Blog shortlisted for top photography prize

One of the pictures I took at The Derby - see June 2nd below - was shortlisted for the 'Celebration of a Nation' photographic competition organised by Yahoo and Mediatel. It was exhibited at a Top West End Gallery (admittedly for only one evening). And it raised £45 for charity, being ACTUALLY SOLD to a real person (not me, I was outbid..). I am not making any of this up.

Full story is here, together with the winning photos: http://celebration.mediatel.co.uk/

And here is the photo itself.

The Olympic Stadium in Berlin: November 2 2012

During Hertha Berlin 0 Ingelstadt 0

 

 

But at least you can get a drink during the game. In fact every so often a bloke comes round with a big tray of lager.  The Germans do get some things right...

 

Monday Sept 10: Parade

Mo

 

 

Vikki, sadly obscured by her hand

Not sure exactly, but all rather lovely

Ben

Tom

Closing Ceremony Fireworks

As seen from our house!

This is the final, final bit of the final ceremony...

Sunday: Marathon Day

Friday: In the Stadium

Oscar. Looks a bit like a ballerina...

 

Greenwich: Monday Sept 3

Swimming: Sat Sept 1

Aquatics Centre:

Matt Whorwood of Paralympics GB wins Bronze. He seems a nice chap:

 

 

 

 Ellie Simmonds prepares for battle against Victoria Arlen in the 400m Freestlye:

 

 

And they're off!...Arlen (2nd closest) is chased down by Simmonds (3rd closest, red hat) . In the Aquatics Centre everybody was SCREAMING so loud, it was crazy. I was shaking, like, "Aaargh!". It felt like nothing else existed, and whatever had happened or was happening, or was going to happen was of absolutely no importance, because the only thing that mattered was Ellie getting ahead of Arlen and winning the race. Which she did :)

A bit different to Pistorius and Olivero:

 

Ellie on the podium with her Gold medal. Sorry its blurry but as I said, it was so exciting I was shaking a bit.

An action shot.

Paralympics GB's Claire Chasmore with her Silver Medal.

  

Timothy's photo of the diving boards. Insert your own Tom Daley.

  

Sorry for delay...

Look, we will update our Paralympics pictures at some point....in a bit. Bear (bare? bear?) with us a bit, OK?