5 Ring Circus

No I didn't drown and now I am back and set yet again to entertain and provoke you. And many thanks for all the messages of concern and worry.

And where to better to start than with a sideways look at the juggernaut that is the London 2012 Olympic Games or The Coe Ego Trip as I like to call it.

Is it only me...but I always think families should stick together.

With only days to go now before The Coe Ego Trip reaches its destination and I have just had the misfortune to spend a couple of days down in our capital city. And you would not believe the traffic chaos. Yes I know there is always chaos on the roads down there but this is far far worse.

Mile after mile of road capacity through this working city have been cordoned off for the privilege use of members of the so called Olympic Family. And woe betides any mere mortal who should inadvertently stray into one of these lanes for should this happen Coe’s Goons will come and get you.

Now the really galling thing about these so called Zil Lanes is, that while the poor sods who are having to pay for The Ego Trip crowd themselves and their vehicles into less and less space, the reserved lanes are for the most part lie empty and devoid of London 2012 BMWs.

Where is the sense in this?

I do accept that we do not want the athletes and other officials snared in some of London's infamous traffic jams for without these people there would be no games. Though why sponsors and the great and good of the Olympic Family cannot slum it with the rest of us is beyond me.

However I have a better suggestion than closing down roads and streets except for the privileged few.

Maybe it is only me but I always thought that families should be together. Families which play and eat together stay together. Why do we not apply this dictum to the Olympic Family?

Instead of causing massive disruption to the lives of ordinary people going about their business by transporting the Olympic Family around and through London, surely it would have made much greater logistical sense to site the travellers closer to the venues. This would have mitigated the need for travel considerably.

In other words accommodate all the Family within the Olympic Village.

Sure I know this would mean that the Head Honchos of the Family and their hangers on would need to forego the 5 star luxury of their grand hotels and slum it with the athletes, but they would be with their Family and as they say blood is thicker than water and family is family.

It is a real surprise that I was not asked to organise the games.

Have a great week. Let the Games commence.

Sis felix. Et sis fortunatus.