Thoughts on this evening

  • Paris looked lovely, despite the rain

  • the catwalk-y bit was ‘different’…as was the blue fellow

  • I enjoyed SuperNature - was it really written by Lene Lovich?

  • I thought we might have heard Gainsbourg, or Brassens, or the Negresses or Manu Choa

  • the combined wash of all those boats made the Seine quite choppy

  • Imagine was nice

  • I didnt know many of the torch-bearers…. but neither did the BBC 😃

  • wouldnt it be great if they changed it so that each country had the same number of athletes?

  • the fire balloon was properly spectacular

  • the floating horse was marvellous

  • …but it went on too long

  • Celine est magnifique!

  • I really enjoyed it

Olympic symbols