Before I start, let's get one thing absolutely straight. This blog is going to be a completely Olympic free zone. There will be no breast beating when we lose, not hurrahs when we win. I will not be commenting on how totally fabulous the opening ceremony was, how our brave boys and girls are doing in the rifle shooting, volleyball, synchronised swimming or what have you. So - now you know.
Today in 1789, Thomas Jefferson was made head of the new Department of Foreign Affairs of the United States government. This was a big mistake. The guy they should have given the job to was Benjamin Franklin, because he had affairs all over Europe already (ask any paid-up debauchee of the Hell-fire Club).
In other news ...
Congratulations to Gregory LeMond who won the Tour de France today in 1986. As an American, he was the first non-European to win, but check out the name. Obviously the organizers were a little confused!
Changing his name slightly, he has become an expert on Bargain Hunt, one of Detective Inspector Mrs Carpenter-Maxwell's secret guilty pleasures. I'll get it in the neck for letting this one out, but I'm sorry, DI Mrs C-M, the truth sometimes has to be told!
