Sorry about the lack of postings recently - but I've been on my holidays.

I won't bore you too much with the mundanities of it - but suffice to say my 4 year old daughter has now had a first 5 nights under canvas and was surprisingly well behaved!

Before I went, I would have posted more on the site - but frankly I couldn't drag myself away from watching the Olympics on the TV for long enough to use the keyboard.  It was BRILLIANT - I love being self-employed, even though I hardly earn enough money to live off!!!!

So superlative is there that can't be used about the Olympics.  It was fantastically well organised, the atmosphere seems to have been great and even those who normally aren't that interested in sport, let along athletics have been talking about the greatest sprint feats of all time from Usain Bolt.

We'd better start with that, I guess, how does someone that tall generate that much power, it is truly amazing.  Like Michael Johnson before, here is a man who stands head and shoulders (in Usain's case literally as well as figuritely) over their opposition making them stand out amongst the 6 billion people on the planet as being hugely better than the best of the other 5,999,999,999 people!!!

Sub 9.7 and he was easing down - and then backed up with a 19.3.....

That will live in Olympic history, up with Jesse Owens, Paavo Nurmi and Carl Lewis.  If it wasn't for a certain Michael Phelps he'd be a shoe-in for top sportsperson of the year - even though I believe he has put Phelps' unbelievable talent slightly in the shade, as the 100m is the blue-riband event of any Olympics.

Next, the double from Kenenisa Bekele was an amazing feat, the first time the 5000 and 10000 has been won by the same athlete since 1980 - both in very fast times, and yet off that great sprint finishes.

On the womens side, I love the way Christine Ohuroughu runs - she is so fantastically strong.  Personally, I'd prefer to see her doing more 400m races in the course of the season, but who can argue with the result.  It would be good to see what she can do for an 800 - a totally different race, I know and she wouldn't probably have the strength for rounds at a Championship - but in a one off race I would think a sub 2 minute run would be almost a certainty.

It was a shame Phillips Idowu didn't win the gold he so badly wanted - but he did his best jump of the year and was just beaten by the better man on the day.

I could go on for hours, but for now I'll say thanks to all the athletes, the officials, the Chinese and ultimately the sporting world for a great feast of entertainment.