Late nights - Early mornings

MONT and I have been a bit tired lately....and one of the reasons we haven't been particularly active doing work on the new studio is we've been glued to the TV most nights and early mornings, watching the Paralympics and absolutely loving it!!

There have been some amazing contests during the Games.

South African relay team

The Wheelchair Rugby - better known as MURDER BALL is a fantastic sport. Exciting, physical...relentless.... Captain Greg Smith was the Australian flag bearer

Greg Smith

By the pool during the swimming comp

The swimming, across all classifications, was great as well...as was the athletics! Lots of world records, wonderful rivalry....Fantastic

We heard a lot of words used like INSPIRATIONAL, but while we were watching we just saw fantastic athletes doing what they'd trained years to do.

I was speaking to a friend a while ago about the Paralympics and was told they didn't watch and didn't care because they were only interested in watching the best of the best, as in the OLYMPIC GAMES.

Well, I can tell you...If you watch the Paralympics, that's exactly what you see.

Jacqueline Freney-8 gold medals

Thanks to the ABC here in Australia, we were able to see a lot more of the Paralympics than previous years...thank goodness!!! Great coverage with no condescension or mawkish commentary.

Richard Coleman

A shout out to BLOGGER and their spell checker though!  When I typed in "Paralympics" it suggested I had spelled it incorrectly, so I clicked the spell checker and the word that came up was "PARALYSIS".

Wake up BLOGGER. Time to get with the program and add "PARALYMPICS" to your dictionary.