The Joseph Goebbels Memorial Fun Run

[lovingboth]

... comes to Newark today. I'm torn between ignoring it (as much as possible - it tries to bring the Olympics to everyone via a series of gridlocked streets) and going along to boo the cynical commercialism of it all.

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[lovingboth]

The highlights for me were the cakes sold by the church at the end of the road, and seeing the usual bunch of tat sellers have to flog Union Flags because they couldn't sell Olympics related stuff.

Large numbers of people did turn out. In Nottingham, the crowds rivalled that for the visit of the Queen (which I would have skipped too..)