The Olympic summing up ceremony. By Bessie and Sam

So after saying we wasn't going to watch and moaning all the way through the opening ceremony, we did actually watch the coverage on BBC1 every night and we actually got quite into it.

Best bits for us were Charlotte Dujardin winning gold in the dressage and Tom Daley being very very happy with his bronze in the diving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scrcY5Yk9Cc

We thought the closing ceremony was great.  The first 10 minutes or so were a bit touch and go, it was starting to look a bit foolish when suddenly Madness came on, then the Pet Shop Boys and it turned out to be really quite splendid.  Jessie J wore a see through number that should have really been muffchecked first.   Annie Lennox and George Michael mimed to avoid them making fools of themselves and showing us up in front of the world.  Take That minus Robbie (always better).  Half of Oasis, he was bloody awful but he was Liam.  Muse were AMAZING as always, wish they'd all played a few more songs.

Was Eric Idle going to say shit?  Yes he did!  Ah well, it was in the song.  The Spice Girls were great.  Geri Halliwell remembered her boobs (she looks so much better with), Sporty nearly fell off the top of her taxi a couple of times, Victoria scowled.  

What else?  It all moved so fast, I'm sure I've forgotten loads.   Queen, Brian May's hair came on and performed a solo.  Fat Boy Slim.  Right here right now funk soul brother.   Elbow!  Oh how good are they?  Very, is the answer.

When they played the Brazilian national anthem we expected Rubens Barichello to come on and do a comedy fall.  That would have made it so much better.

Anyway all in all a very good night, they did us proud.  The whole olympics did us proud.  I feel very proud to be British this year.  So what if all the Eurovision countries hate us.  We have the best royal family in the world and we did a bloody brilliant olympic games and sod anyone who doesn't agree.

In other news, Lotty went to agility training this morning.  She's a natural.  The agility lady said she was a bit worried when we booked it cos she's never trained a basset before and she was a bit nervous about what was going to turn up.  But Lotty did really well (AMAZING even!) and is going again next week.

She had a go in the tunnel and cracked it instantly, then the jumps and within a few minutes was jumping 4.  Then she tried the slalom poles, they is only on the first setting at the moment so was dead easy.  And finally the dog walk beam thingy.  She was a bit scared at first but then with a gravy bone under her nose she did it
perfectly.  It is on the lowest height at the moment but she didn't fall off so she should be alright to go higher. We going to buy/make the equipment at home to practice with.

Homework was to work on Lotty's stay.  She is great at sit and can sit in whatever position you need, front back whatever and she does stay but if you step back more than about 5 steps she moves.

Then we took Tom to his friends in Newport and on the way home stopped at McDonalds for lunch.  The humans got a drive through so they didn't have to leave us in the car and they was sat in the car park eating when Mummy saw a HUGE rat run out of the hedge and sit right next to the car eating a box of chips someone had thrown on the floor.  NICE!