THE OLYMPICS (3)

I am sitting here watching the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, and trying to recognise my son in the crowd (I have more chance of winning the lottery, I know). One thing is clear from the show so far; Britain has been responsible for a large proportion of the world's great pop music.

We are off to London to watch the games tomorrow, so only random blogging for two weeks. I thought about taking my Hong Kong t-shirt, the one that says "white people don't understand this" in chinese characters on the front. But then I thought that there might in fact be quite a lot of Chinese speakers at the games, so I decided not to. I'll have to content myself with my plain green one.

Walter Blotscher