At the New Year celebrations by the Thames.
An excellent TV broadcast:
A very good TV broadcast:
There are several thousand here on the banks of the river…
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Wonderful atmosphere despite the cold ….
The BBC:
HI YES, You join me here with thousand of people watching the fireworks – very prett – ooh look at that red one, and the green! – and we are all really cold but it’s great fun and people have been here for hours to see this, let me talk to one … “HI MUM!!!” – now back to the studio.
And there we have the display and if the camera can just move away from the crowd and look at the fireworks.. the display was designed by a Frenchman who was also responsible for …… and there we have it. All gone for another year. Glad I don’t have to clean that up!”
On the Obama Inauguration:
An excellent TV broadcast:
A very good TV broadcast
Dick Cheney in a wheelchair
Bill Clinton chatting to one of the aides there..
The BBC:
And there is Dick Cheney in a wheelchair. This is a surprise as normally he walks. We will find out what may be affecting him and how this might impact the incoming President. Of course you will remember that Dick Cheney is seen as the hawk in George W Bush’s government and had a lot to do with Guantanamo. He was also involved in a strange shooting incident a couple of years ago – not that this will be connected with the wheelchair of course, he has been seen walking after that ha ha ha. And his being in a wheelchair reminds me of the great Franklin D Roosevelt who was also seen as a great president and someone who Obama may well want to emulate. Let’s cross to our US Correspondent who may have more insights into what is affecting my Cheney….
And everyone else seems to be there now and Barack Obama has taken the stand. He has hand on the book and he has started taking the Oath of Office. The crowd is silent as they listen to every word he is now saying the oath which of course is unchanged in years of course and once complete he will formally be President of the USA. And there we go, he has said it. Not sure if you heard that slight faltering in there….
To the BBC: Shut up.