I'm quite interested about the timings for the 2012 Olympics.
The London Development Agency has sent out a document today entitled "Shaping the Olympic Park Legacy" which details progress regarding the planning process and how local communities can play an active part in the games.
The document is also available online here.
At the bottom of each page is a possible timeline for a day in the life of the local community during the Olympics. For example, the "day starts" on page one at 7.31am, on page 3 at 8.03am a delivery man tells us that "opening early was a good idea" and on page 5 at 8.47am "shoppers are coming from all over London". You get the idea.
However on page 10 at 11.59am "lots of the kids want to learn about starting their own business" and you turn over to page 12 where at 12.09am one of the children says "I've never seen tadpoles before, there's always something to do here".
Well I'm not surprised this child hasn't seen any tadpoles there at 9 minutes past midnight, it must be pitch black at that time of night. And what are their parents thinking about letting them out at that hour?
Of course not. As the next page goes to 1.04pm, it must simply be a mistake in someone forgetting 12am is midnight and 12pm in noon.
But then if you go to the back of this informative booklet (page 26-28) it gives you a summary of what these people should be doing throughout the day. This is where it gets really confusing.
At 11.59am the kids still want to learn about small business but at 1.04am we find out that the children have now spent nearly an hour now looking for tadpoles in the dead of night without any success.
And furthermore at 1.20am some office workers tell us that "sitting by the water is great when the sun's out, I used to have lunch at my desk". Although they don't tell us how often the sun is out at that time of night, I imagine they must be doing the nightshift to get a lunch break around then. :-/
If the LDA get their way, I am sure their legacy from the Olympics will be that they can honestly say that the times they are a changing.
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(Image Source: Picture of London Development Agency's "Shaping the Olympic Park Legacy".)
