Olympics

Lots going on in London at the moment, not the least being some stunning weather which has caught everyone by surprise.

Needless to say people are making the most of it while it lasts. Especially as we've got our bank holiday bonanza at the moment, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Royal Wedding Friday followed by a regular May bank holiday gives us a 4 day week followed by a 3 day week and then another 4 day week. Lots of time to enjoy the sunshine so let's hope it lasts.

As well as the weather and the holidays there is of course the hype around the royal wedding, our borough has had the second highest number of applications to the council to hold street parties so I'd say come next Friday there will be no escaping the royal wedding in our neighborhood. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13168742

We are escaping to Henley with my parents on the day of the wedding so we will probably miss the actual ceremony. I expect Henley will be in full celebration mode when we get there though so that will be good to soak up some of the atmosphere.

The other reason why there is a lot going on at the moment is that the ballot is closing for Olympics tickets, I've just filled in our entry to the ballot. We've applied to 7 events including 2 days of athletics, gymnastics (I applied for rhythmic by mistake which is the ribbons and balls, I'm going to do another application for artistic gymnastics which is the bars, vault etc.), hockey, beach volleyball, swimming and weightlifting. It's only a ballot so we're hoping we don't get all the tickets we've applied for. If we do get all our tickets it will cost £385 (plus so more if I get the artistic gymnastics as well). For some of the sessions we were able to apply for tickets for Baby Bush, which cost £1 and hopefully mean we get an extra seat.

We'll find out by late June which tickets we have.

That's all for now.