I think the triathlon is centred around Sutton Park.Where are they cycling?
Dave A
Where are they cycling?
Dave A
My Mom (RIP) would have been glued to the TV while standing at the ironing board in the living room!Test Match Special, compulsive listening for many. Your mom would have enjoyed listening to this years record breaking Test at Edgbaston. Bet she loved old Jonners !
Honestly, I'd rather watch paint drying! To each their own though. From "inside" any given sport, it provides a very different perspective of the competitive moves and strategy. Others view motorsports as watching cars go round and round.And still damn boring
LOL John! As I sit here typing and watching the F1 Hungarian GP practice 2, my wife has vanished into another room to read. Qualifying is on tomorrow and the race on Sunday. I used to get up early to watch it, but record the racing these days so that I can choose when to view.I think it's each to his or her own, as far as sport is concerned and particularly as far as televised sport is concerned. I myself, having played football, cricket, golf and rugby, now only watch these and other sports. I could probably watch them on television until the cows come home, but I don't (I tend to record quite a bit to watch later), because I can appreciate that having to sit through it, would drive my wife to distraction (as would watching some of the programmes that she enjoys, do for me )!
Having looked at the BBC 1 schedules for Friday (the first day of the Games), it does seem they have gone way over the top with their coverage (particularly hot on the heels of Wimbledon). The games are on air from 9.15 - 13.00, 13.45 - 18.00, 21.00 - 22.00 & from 22.40 - 23.40. That's ten hours in total. I feel for Mike's boredom threshold in the coming days.... Let the Games commence, along with the battles for the remote!!
It definitely appears that the Titanic anchor was made in Netherton according to this and other articles. https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/15136049.titanics-worcestershire-links-revealed/Wow. So proud of my home city. Watching from Australia, the whole ceremony was so professional and spectacular enough to rival any recent games of any note. For us on this forum it also covered so much history of our city, the things we made, ' from pins to a ships anchor' my Dad reckoned. Was that anchor for the Titanic made in the Black Country? God bless 'the chain mekkers', covered our social and literary history too. Back in the day we embraced those who arrived from around the Commonwealth, in my day we lived and worked happily alongside one another. Congratulations to those behind the production. Only minor gripe- I would have preferred Jeff Lynne and ELO to Duran Duran
My Mom (RIP) would have been glued to the TV while standing at the ironing board in the living room!
Honestly, I'd rather watch paint drying! To each their own though. From "inside" any given sport, it provides a very different perspective of the competitive moves and strategy. Others view motorsports as watching cars go round and round.
No matter the sport, there are skills involved that are rather invisible to the uninformed observer, which is about the level of my knowledge of cricket, although I did play a little in my school years.
Swimming and cycling and rugby union were my interests during my teens and far more interesting to me than football (soccer). I've never been remotely interested in American and Canadian football.
FWIW, I raced motorcycles and cars and one day walked away and quit cold turkey and started growing my own plants and vegetables, which still seem to grow faster than the pace of any game of cricket. VBG.
Still, it's all about strategy and the play, no different from high speed events in other sports, where millmetre perfect nets the victory!
My Father in Law Ron Sanders (RIP), used to play cricket regularly in full whites. He was a manager at Smith Stone and Knight and dearly loved the game. He would be thoroughly "miffed" to see any colour uniform but white and with logos to boot! Is nothing sacred?! VBG.
Couldn't agree more. It could be another King Kong, that would be on display for many years in the city. It would mark the Games being held here, as well as how locals, and some folks from further afield, got behind the event. How sad that in the link "a local entrepreneur and activist" chooses instead to link it solely to the city's "problematic history" and gives that as the reason that we should not want to keep it on display .i was hoping there would be a call by brummies to save this magnificent mechanical bull....i have to admit i shed a tear when he appeared at the opening ceremony..i quite warmed to him...as the creator said this morning on tv some of it contains foam which wont last long outside but surely it could be adapted in some way..after all we are supposed to be a forward thinking city...he represents birmingham industrial history and of course the bull ring and looks great standing in centenary square...fingers crossed
lyn
Save our Bull! Battle to save the Games showstopper from scrapheap
The instantly iconic Raging Bull that stole the show at the opening ceremony of Birmingham 2022 seems destined for destruction after the Games - but Brummies say it has to staywww.birminghammail.co.uk
i must be a bit thick then john...as i thought the bull represents the citys working history...not sure what you mean by "problematic "Couldn't agree more. It could be another King Kong, that would be on display for many years in the city. It would mark the Games being held here, as well as how locals, and some folks from further afield, got behind the event. How sad that in the link "a local entrepreneur and activist" chooses instead to link it solely to the city's "problematic history" and gives that as the reason that we should not want to keep it on display .
I think John is referring to the quote in the article you linked to about the Bull representing oppression.i must be a bit thick then john...as i thought the bull represents the citys working history...not sure what you mean by "problematic "
lyn
Is the actual Bull Ring still fixed in the ground?this news just popped up...council in talks to try and save our bull
Save our Bull - city council in talks to save Raging Bull
Birmingham City Council has revealed it is in talks with partners to save the iconic prop after it proved such a hitwww.birminghammail.co.uk
thanks jan miss understood but i still hope it can be saved for all the right reasonsI think John is referring to the quote in the article you linked to about the Bull representing oppression.
Far from it lyn. I suspect that it's only "Dr Tru" in the article that seems to see the bull as being "problematic".i must be a bit thick then john...as i thought the bull represents the citys working history...not sure what you mean by "problematic "
lyn
It did seem to be the only negative comment.Far from it lyn. I suspect that it's only "Dr Tru" in the article that seems to see the bull as being "problematic".
thanks john..i do tend to charge in like a bull in a china shopFar from it lyn. I suspect that it's only "Dr Tru" in the article that seems to see the bull as being "problematic".
well said albertaThe commentary last night said the same, that it represented oppression and when the 2 girls took the 'pieces of metal' (Sorry can't remember how they described them) from his face it was releasing him from oppression. He was breathing fire until that happened and then he became peaceful.
I thought he was fantastic and I hope he can be in the city for a long time.