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badattitude said:
actually the cross country course will go through the middle of the arena. They enter by the judges tower on your drawing and then the track goes right round the arena pretty much incorporating a jump or two and then the competitors leave by the corner top right of your arena plan.
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Sorry to be a pedant, but in the diagram I referred to in my past post the course is shown as entering the arena through the Prestige Hospitality Tent. It enters on the rhs of the tent (as indicated by the yellow arrowhead) passes through it and continues to the arena (as indicated by the hatching on the lhs of the tent). This can also be clearly seen on the drawing for Phase 7:
http://onlineplanning.greenwich.gov.uk/acolnet/documents/45710_2.pdf
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I think that they then just ride around the arena (no fences) and exit at the south-east corner heading for the boating pond. So I think that the Prestige guests will see horses jumping one fence (on the parterre), but those in the stadium will not.
 
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Rachel Mawhood said:
An irresistable mental picture of Mithras is forming, of someone aged about 101 harking back to the good old days of being in the law when serfs knew their place. All this scattering around of Latin phrases.

Everyone, please Google "delitus personnae". It doesn't mean what Mithras half-remembers it meaning.

You are trolling, Mithras.
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Does anyone have any idea about what this person is talking about? Or why they are attempting to use our equine discussion forum for promoting their own minority views? They certainly aren't interested in any form of discussion, and are quick to resort to insult when their very strong, and rather eccentric viewpoints are challenged.

Calm down dear!
 
quirky said:
And my mental image of you Ms Mawhood is of an unemployed dippy hippy in hemp sandals who has too much time on your hands to be able to waste tax payers money on a variety of personal crusades (GIYF) :).
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Most likely the reality is even more mundane. No doubt someone who has never excelled at anything in her life, and as a result who has instead concentrated her efforts on attempting to disrupt the activies of those who do excel, on the pretext of "mild inconvenience" because a local park near where she lives will be out of use for a short time for a lifetime event.

Virtually everything she says is innacurate, but she obviously believes it to be true.

I don't even mind being advised on better ways to do things by people who are brilliant, talented, have fabulous past records, and so on. This isn't the case here.

Its hardly worth wasting any more time on nutters. Fun though it is occasionally.
 
Rachel Mawhood said:
You are not telling the truth.

I won at the Lands Tribunal. I WON.

http://www3.eurolii.org/ew/cases/EWLands/2008/LRX_59_2007.html
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Since when did "the truth" become so economical? You were trying to buy the freehold of your property for a cheaper price than the freeholder agreed with. You still had to pay more for it than you tried to get away with. You had the this slightly reduced on appeal by having the wording of the lease amended, since both of parties agreed the leashold agreement contained an error. You were not awarded expenses. You did not get the freehold for a cut-price amount, neither did you succeed in getting tens of thousands of pounds off its price because the leaseholder did not maintain the freehold to the standard you unsuccessfully tried to claim was necessary.

I cringe for you every time I read your mixed up attempts at being supercillious when discussing the law. If you want to be a lawyer, get good enough grades to get into the LLB, study for 4 years, get a 2:1 or higher, get into the LPC, get a two year traineeship and then you just might actually understand some of the wording which you are trying to be so condesceding about (and failing).

Being a little more thoughtful of other people's right to share the world with you wouldn't go amiss. Not everyone who disagrees with you is evil or bad. A little modesty would also stand you in good stead, particularly in your case when it is so warranted. I really am not meaning to be patronising when I say this, but have you ever considered that cognitive behavioural therapy might be something worth exploring?
 
Mithras said:
If you want to be a lawyer, get good enough grades to get into the LLB, study for 4 years, get a 2:1 or higher, get into the LPC, get a two year traineeship and then you just might actually understand some of the wording which you are trying to be so condesceding about (and failing).
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I am aged 61 and semi-retired from a long and interesting and useful professional life. Not interested in being a lawyer. Want to spend the rest of my life keeping hens and bees and dogs, taking up woodwork, travelling a little, and "being there" for my friends and family.

Mithras said:
I really am not meaning to be patronising when I say this, but have you ever considered that cognitive behavioural therapy might be something worth exploring?
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Have you much experience of cyber-bullying?
 
Rachel Mawhood said:
I am aged 61 and semi-retired from a long and interesting and useful professional life. Not interested in being a lawyer. Want to spend the rest of my life keeping hens and bees and dogs, taking up woodwork, travelling a little, and "being there" for my friends and family.
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Then might I humbly suggest you try to find it within yourself to enjoy the talent, dedication and competitiveness of those competing at the Olympics, in all sports, which you are lucky enough to live right in the middle of. Alternatively, if you really find it unbearable, simply go on holiday as some people during the Edinburgh Festival try to do for its month long duration.

ps you are welcome to come up here and try and find my street if you can. You'll be a long time looking!
 
Rachel Mawhood said:
Have you much experience of cyber-bullying?
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Look not being
nasty but you should have finished with this its a waste of yours and everyone elses time banging on about the use of the park maybe a year ago , for better or worse its going to go ahead
get over it you will feel better and we wont be bored witless by your tedious and vexatious
rambling .. Have a nice day ...... somewhere else :D
 
Orwell said:
Sorry to be a pedant, but in the diagram I referred to in my past post the course is shown as entering the arena through the Prestige Hospitality Tent. It enters on the rhs of the tent (as indicated by the yellow arrowhead) passes through it and continues to the arena (as indicated by the hatching on the lhs of the tent). This can also be clearly seen on the drawing for Phase 7:

I think that they then just ride around the arena (no fences) and exit at the south-east corner heading for the boating pond. So I think that the Prestige guests will see horses jumping one fence (on the parterre), but those in the stadium will not.
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Now I am being pedantic ;). The cross country course does not required planning permission per se (as we are doing some latin on here these days) and consequently has had several changes of route. I am fairly certain there will be a jump in the arena (it is a fairly standard procedure at three day events these days) because of the latest course plans I have seen and also because of the way it was tested at the test event. But it doesn't really matter, most eventing fans are used to walking from jump to jump as they like. The point is that at this event a great many. if not all will be staying in one place to watch, which is very sad and I think that LOCOG should be honest about this as most people will be spending a great deal of money to attend.
 
badattitude said:
I am fairly certain there will be a jump in the arena (it is a fairly standard procedure at three day events these days) because of the latest course plans I have seen and also because of the way it was tested at the test event.
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I remember seeing a drawing somewhere (I don't think that it is part of the current planning application) which suggested that the horses would gallop up a ramp onto the arena platform, across the northern edge of it, and down a ramp to the exit. I'm sure that they could put a jump in if they wanted to. It might be a good idea for legal reasons. No matter what the small print on the ticket says, it would seem to be a paradigm case of mis-selling to sell someone a ticket to a cross country event where they couldn't see a single horse jump; a bit like staging a Buffalo-Bill-Wild-West show without Buffalo Bill or cowboys or indians.

But it doesn't really matter, most eventing fans are used to walking from jump to jump as they like. The point is that at this event a great many. if not all will be staying in one place to watch, which is very sad and I think that LOCOG should be honest about this as most people will be spending a great deal of money to attend.
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From the latest drawings it looks like there will be a few (I spotted 4) small (168-seater) temporary stands around the course. Those lucky enough to get a seat at the top of one of these might see more than the people around them and signs of a occasional passing horse.
 
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Orwell said:
I remember seeing a drawing somewhere (I don't think that it is part of the current planning application) which suggested that the horses would gallop up a ramp onto the arena platform, across the northern edge of it, and down a ramp to the exit. I'm sure that they could put a jump in if they wanted to. It might be a good idea for legal reasons. No matter what the small print on the ticket says, it would seem to be a paradigm case of mis-selling to sell someone a ticket to a cross country event where they couldn't see a single horse jump; a bit like staging a Buffalo-Bill-Wild-West show without Buffalo Bill or cowboys or indians.


From the latest drawings it looks like there will be a few (I spotted 4) small (168-seater) temporary stands around the course. Those lucky enough to get a seat at the top of one of these might see more than the people around them and signs of a occasional passing horse.
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You see, this is us having a DISCUSSION as part of a DEBATE. :) I like this much better.
 
I don't know much about these Olympics but maybe the OP knows something we don't. She sounds like she is an 'insider' and up on the event details. Maybe there is good reason to fear an Act of Terrorism. I so very much hope not for everyone's sake. But who could ever forsee 911 would happen or the Household Calvary and their horses would be blown up, the Birmingham Pub Bombings would happen or anything else that's happened over the years. Maybe we shouldn't all scorn this lady, but we should listen to her and what she has to say. Like I say, maybe she knows more than us and she is not trying to scare monger. Maybe she is right. Though for the love of God I pray she is not right. We are in Surrey, all I can say is I'm glad we are 25 miles away if it does kick off.
 
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I should say we actually live in Shropshire on the Wales/Shropshire border, but we will be visiting family in Surrey when the Olympics are on which are 25 miles away, just realised what I'd put, confusing people like that. We moved in August to Shropshire (bit quiet for me as not a lot of hair salons in the area as I am a hair dresser) and I still keep giving our old address to people without thinking, as we have lived there most of our lives! I hope the Olympics is all peaceful and we do our country proud. A lot of people in our village had applied for tickets but only one that we know of in Wem managed to get a ticket. Typical! Sorry to ramble.
 
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