I wonder how many of us will be checking our VISA accounts from today to see if we have secured tickets for next year's Olympics.
After a six-day delay (originally it was from 10 May), money will be taken out of our accounts between today and (I assume the original end date remains the dame) 10 June if we have been successful in our ticket applications.
If some money has been taken out of your account, it will be then a case of waiting until 24 June to find out which events we have tickets for, unless you have applied for very few, or conjure up some algebraic equation to figure out how many tickets at exactly what prices you have got! Good luck on that one.
It seems that a lot of people "over-ordered" the number of tickets they actually want, so I have a feeling that the return of tickets and the subsequent re-sale (I believe in early 2012) will prompt a bigger frenzy for tickets as people realise what they really want and that this really is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Off to check my VISA account...
Monday 16 May 2011
Thursday 5 May 2011
The final WWI veteran passes away
It really is the end of an era today, as the last veteran from World War I has died in Australia.
British-born Claude Choules, was 110. Having joined the Royal Navy in 1916 at 15, Claude watched the surrender of the German fleet in 1918.
Having been posted to serv near Melbourne in 1926, Mr Choules met his future wife and moved to Australia.
In spite of serving in the Navy, Mr Choules became a pacifist, and disagreed with the celebration of Australia's most important war memorial holiday, Anzac Day.
Having taken a creative writing course at the age of 80 he recorded his memoirs for his family, and those were turned into his autobiography, The Last of the Last, which was published in 2009.
It is the loss of the final fighting connection with the First World War, and the sad memories that go with it.
British-born Claude Choules, was 110. Having joined the Royal Navy in 1916 at 15, Claude watched the surrender of the German fleet in 1918.
Having been posted to serv near Melbourne in 1926, Mr Choules met his future wife and moved to Australia.
In spite of serving in the Navy, Mr Choules became a pacifist, and disagreed with the celebration of Australia's most important war memorial holiday, Anzac Day.
Having taken a creative writing course at the age of 80 he recorded his memoirs for his family, and those were turned into his autobiography, The Last of the Last, which was published in 2009.
It is the loss of the final fighting connection with the First World War, and the sad memories that go with it.
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