I'm out of breath
and practice too
i'm out of paper
not in the loo
I'm out of shape
I'm out of sorts
I'm in a mood
and not my shorts.
• Michael Gove agreed sales despite pledge to protect pitches
• Pressure builds on coalition to rethink sports strategy
words and foto T Carroll
Turns out it's 30 school fields Tommy, i've signed an online petition.
Hi Tommy, appreciate your thoughts and concern, as I work in benefits I have a good understanding of what the issues are and know about the cuts. I feel with the government going hell for leather though they would have happened anyway.
Yes £9 billion is a hell of a lot of money, funnily enough similar to amount spent on housing benefit each year. I would imagine though a lot of that has gone to firms and employees involved in the games, yes there are major concerns but hopefully at the end of the day there wont be any major loss and we've had something to be proud of it.
You mentioned disabled people, I believe nearly all 2.5 million tickets have been sold for the paralympics, surely that can't be wrong.
That's a great point you are making Tommy. The pledge to protect green belt will go much the same way, I fear...
Hi Tommy, thanx for reading my olympic poem, not exactly sure what the comment meant but can see you're not a fan. I've read your recent blogs and understand where you're coming from.
We could debate the pros and cons for hours, yes the money could be spent on a lot of things but so could the money for arms, defence, the space race, who the hell knows what!
At least with the olympics folk can get involved and support it (70,000 volunteers and altho opening ceremony cost £30m it wouldnt have happened but for 15,000 volunteers), have some pride (we don't get a lot to shout about) and hopefully there may be a legacy for others to take part and build those sports facilities etc.
And maybe for the next hundred years, we can draw from it as an overall success, but in a thousand years who will be arsed what we happened or what we spent the money on anyway!
By the way, I've only heard briefly about this school playing field issue, nead to read the literature, doesn'y sound good, but like your poem in response to the issue!, Best wishes Jeff
I like this, Tommy :o)
Re your comment on my 'Endeavour', I have explained it more on my latest blog, 'While I was Writing something else...'
Feel free to ignore it though if you wish, lol ;o)
A pledge to protect means nothing till it happens in this case - - - not.
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Isobel
Fri 17th Aug 2012 10:00
Close to where I live there was land bequeathed to the catholic church in an old lady's will. The proviso was that it should never be sold for building. There are now lots of houses on it. The same thing applied to a hospital in the area - there were rules surrounding the use of the land - they managed to get round it though. Nothing is sacred in this age we live. Not school playing fields, not church grounds, not green belt. Where there is money to be made and back handers dished out....