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helllloooo everyone, I know I don't often post on this thread but I've had an exciting couple of days - managed to get paralympics judo finals and medal ceremony tickets for our end of August London trip yesterday evening, and this morning I went to watch the olympic torch relay as it passed near to my house .
We've never stayed in London before, in fact my DD has never even passed through London before, so it'll be a busy busy 2 days in the Capital!
Congrats on getting the tickets, I have tickets for the hockey & i'm lucky to be working up there for London ambulance service on a secondment, although not looking forward to the 4.30am starts for some shifts
How exciting getting Olympics tickets! I kinda wish we'd at least tried to get some! The Torch passed by our front door last week, it was amazing, the whole street were out in the rain, houses were decorated and Rosebug had her "Jubilee" dress on (which is now her Olympic dress! ) The police were on their bikes etc. waving to the kids, and there was a parade of sponsorship trucks etc. It was a wonderful community experience!
Unlike our community experience last night with the flooding! It hit our county quite bad, we very nearly had a flooded kitchen and 2 streets away our town centre was flooded, and even had ducks swimming around. A little way up the road from us cars were submerged! :-( We are very lucky that our house is on a bank, so everything just floats past us, but our backyard is a slight slope, so the water was flooding down towards the house, and the drain got blocked, luckily DH realised in time and had to lie down in 4 inches of water to unblock it just as it was starting to come into the kitchen! Feel so sorry for the hundreds of people who took hours to get home last night, who had to abandon their cars (was bizarre driving to work this morning with all the cars abandoned on the sides of the roads. I was waiting for the zombies!) and who had terrible flooding. And I am so glad I left work an hour earlier than usual, otherwise I wouldn't have got home because the Tyne Tunnel was flooded, and that was my route home! It was quite a spectacular storm, I love thunder and lightening, such a shame it was so devastating!!!
Glad your house escaped getting flooded