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What did you think of the opening of the Olympics?

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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 14:41 on 31st July 2012

aarrhh Richard, bless you for being so patriotic

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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 15:17 on 31st July 2012
One of My screen savers is of Compo, Cleggy,and Foggy !! 
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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 15:20 on 31st July 2012
Yes definately an anglophile, where do you live now Richard?
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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 15:31 on 31st July 2012
I live in Colorado,,in the Rocky Mountians,,( yet , one day i want to get some friends together and retire to a tudor manor house and run it as they did in" Grace and Favour")( i think that would put me ranking very high on the Anglo scale !!)
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Marjorie Pope
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quotePosted at 16:02 on 31st July 2012
On 31st July 2012 14:26, Richard Sellers wrote:
I must be more an Anglophile than i thought,, I got everything !! and enjoyed the opening of the games very much..

So good to read something positive here Richard!  It's so easy to criticize and be negative about everything.  I am proud to be British and to have the Olympics in this country, and I thought most of the ceremony was great.
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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 16:35 on 31st July 2012
On 31st July 2012 16:02, Marjorie Pope wrote:
On 31st July 2012 14:26, Richard Sellers wrote:
I must be more an Anglophile than i thought,, I got everything !! and enjoyed the opening of the games very much..

So good to read something positive here Richard!  It's so easy to criticize and be negative about everything.  I am proud to be British and to have the Olympics in this country, and I thought most of the ceremony was great.

I lived in Atlanta back when we hosted the 96 Olympics. It was wonderful to be a part of something so special, i know how alot people there share in that feeling .Keep being proud !!
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Peggy Cannell
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quotePosted at 13:39 on 1st August 2012
Ok Richard, so, are all Poer's going to have an invitation to your  tudor manor house for the house warming ?
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Ron Brind
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quotePosted at 19:00 on 1st August 2012
For a full week that is! lol
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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 21:18 on 1st August 2012
On 31st July 2012 15:20, Peggy Cannell wrote:
Yes definately an anglophile, where do you live now Richard?



Peggy,,,

That is going to be on the top 10 nicest things ever said to me !!

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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 21:18 on 1st August 2012
How is everyone getting along with all this then?
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