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16.20 pm ~ I arrived as the stewards were being briefed ... |
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... there were a few people sitting outside Theta on the UCS forecourt ... |
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... the water was full of boats ... |
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... and flags ... |
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... David was busy tweeting ... |
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... as a float came past ... |
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... and then a balloon seller ... |
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... People arrived from nowhere, and soon the Waterfront was hopping ... |
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... 18.45 pm, and somebody was still tweeting away in the sunshine! |
There has been much publicity about
Poetry Parnassus, running in tandem this year with the Olympic Games. I will throw a link back to this previous post on poetry and Olympia ...
here.
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