Was I the only person in the country who found the British performance at the handover ceremony in Beijing a bit of a toe-curler?
Watch it here...
(Skip ahead to 6:40 for the worst bits - If you can bear to. )
Now it seems that there is more embarassment to shoulder.
At a truly staggering cost of £27 million, it has been revealed that the opening ceremony will feature a tribute to the NHS, for God's sake, involving hundreds of dancing nurses.
Considering that these precious 'Angels' do little these days but complain about how short staffed, underpaid and overworked they are, one is amazed that they are able to find the time. Considering further that quite a lot of them are hopelessy overweight one wonders what sort of message the organisers are trying to send?
Reading what the director, Danny Boyle had to say in today's Telegraph...
London 2012 Olympics: Shakespeare theme to lead 'Isles of Wonder' Olympic opening ceremony - Telegraph
This is shaping up to be a cringe-fest of epic proportions.
Can this possibly get any worse?
