bloody Olympics! boring everybody to death and clagging up Hackney Marshes ...

	near Chelmsford ~ near Chelmsford 2007 ~ Hackney pix
mo 23 jn 08	1924 The seeding system was introduced to the Wimbledon tennis championships
	Road(s) have disappeared around the 2012 Olympics site in Hackney and twice this morning this yellow jacket tried to tell us we couldn't photograph from the public pavement ... yeah, right.
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su 6 ap 08	1896 The Olympic games were revived by Pierre de Coubertin
	What a swizz! First the pavements were swept, then the bins were emptied, then an army of police and two helicopters all for a bus with Coca Cola written on it and half a dozen slappers on the back of a lorry. Didn't get to see no Olympic flame but did get to see these protesters asking the PSO to take their pic, makes you proud to be British!
mo 18 fe 08	1901 Winston Churchill made his parliamentary maiden speech

	This is the boundary of the main 2012 Olympics site in a large town near Chelmsford. It took us a while to realise the message is partly a cleverly stuck on graffito.

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