Sheffield City Chase

[graeme]

I loved this...

The event centre, formally the National Centre for Popular Music

...shame it isn't true, but it's a great line which I'll use in future.

http://grammar.about.com/od/words/a/formallygloss.htm

[ash]

true according to the worlds most reliable source...wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Centre_for_Popular_Music

[ba-ba]

it is true! I remember seeing in on Blue Peter or Newsround once!

[edit] you just can't get the staff these days...

[Mrs H]

Well done boys and girls - do you want the mums and dads to bring a cake for the stall too?

[ba-ba]

naturally, all cakes generously accepted

[Rockaldo]

To quote Sophocles in your event final details could be considered a bit sophisticated.

Given that that quote comes from a speech in which Neoptolemus is advocating the superior honour to be gained from winning things by violence rather than by cunning, presumably it will be acceptable to trip up other competitors?

That's presuming that i was not talking about another Sophocles.

[King Penguin]

ash and ba-ba,
I think you missed Graeme's point ...

[ba-ba]

I got it eventually...
I can spot an errant apostrophe a mile off, just can't spell!

[ash]

it wasnt really that obvious until he edited his post to highlight what he meant. but the final details were full of banter anyway so its all good

[Mrs H]

Graeme - you are being so picky about grammar these days Mind you I did wonder whether it was me or ba-ba who was being generous over the cake - I'll have to make sure I had it over very gratefully

[Marco Polo]

Almost correct, I think it was formerly formally the national centre for popular music.

[graeme]

Graeme - you are being so picky about grammar these days

I'm not complaining about grammar, I just liked the idea that it was really the event centre for the City chase, even though formally it was called something else. It made the event sound important, and what with all these classical allusions and banter I though it might have been deliberate.

Similarly, I was amused by the idea of giving your food back to the caterers if you didn't like it.

[HOCOLITE]

I found reading the details brought a new perspective to O. I actually read the whole document because I didn't think O no I've read this all before. Some bits actually got me thinking.

[Mrs H]

I've made the cake - I suppose you lot don't know anything about the Cake of Mortality Young Neville will tell you - Faz was the first winner when he was about 14 - after he got attacked by a swan at an event (or at least that's what he said when he didn't win his course - there were of course no witnesses to the incidernt)

[ba-ba]

Weather for the weekend is 'entertaining' - however, should mean the streets are emptier, if a little slippy! Should be enough space inside assembly for everyone - although you may wish to bring a towel!