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Dial-a-Cab’s
Jim Rainbird (T25) seems to be forever taking celebrities
around town. His last appearance in Call Sign had
him working with Kwame Kwei-Armah (paramedic Finlay
Newton in BBC’s Casualty
from 1999 to 2004) when he
filmed a Channel 4 documentary that retraced the Queen’s 45,000
mile tour of the Commonwealth in 1953 – soon after her
Coronation. Jim, who is the Upper Warden in the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers, maintained that link with the Commonwealth from Kwame’s four one-hour programmes, by actually being in on the England team’s start to the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. That will be the last real testing platform for the English competitors before the 2012 Olympics in London. Jim took a Delhi 2010 touring party from Trafalgar Square to the Newham Leisure Centre in Prince Regent Lane, before going back and forth and then onto The London Studios for a lunchtime television appearance on Loose Women. This was to publicise the beginning of the Queen’s Baton Relay 2010 Delhi journey. The Baton, which symbolises the unity and shared ideals of the Commonwealth of Nations, began its 12-month journey from Buckingham Palace on the 29th October before ending its UK section on 7th November at Twickenham, where England’s |
JIM IN COMMONWEALTH GAMES COUNTDOWN! |
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 Jim was involved in the Baton launch for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. rugby team were taking on their arch rivals, Australia, in the first of the Autumn rugby internationals. The Baton took to the skies before the start of the match, suspended high above the pitch from the England rugby helisphere. The pitch was engulfed in the England flag as the sell-out English crowd delivered a stirring rendition of the classic English hymn Jerusalem. Then the real journey began. This will see the Baton travel through all the other seventy Commonwealth nations, ending up in around 300 days from now when it enters the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi during the Opening Ceremony. By then it would have traversed over 190,000 kilometres. The Delhi Games are under a year away and the last multi-sport event before the London 2012 Olympics. They will provide a |
unique opportunity in the life
of an athlete. England’s Commonwealth Games team will be more
than 500 strong, featuring the elite of 17 sports and 4 para-sports.
The new strapline We are England celebrates the
diversity and togetherness of the England team, whilst the new
lion logo adds a sense of strength and dynamism to the team. The
new England brand is complemented by a new website at
www.weareengland.org
that contains up-to-date team news, athlete profiles,
imagery, video and discussion, along with a countdown to Delhi
2010. Jim told Call Sign: "To be honest, with so much emphasis being given to the London Olympics in 2012, I hadn’t really thought about Delhi. But the job I did for the Commonwealth Games team has whetted my appetite and I think that Team England are going to blow everyone away with an ultra-successful Commonwealth Games medal tally. I’m sure everyone at Dial-a-Cab wishes them well and I’m just thrilled that – however indirectly – DaC have now been a part of the We are England launch." The young lady with Jim and the Baton in the cover photo is Joanna Robinson, the Development Director of Commonwealth Games England... |
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An Irishman walked into a Dublin bar
and ordered three pints of Guinness. Then he sat in the back of
the bar, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When he’d
finished all three, he came back to the bar and ordered three
more. The bartender told him that a pint went flat after it had
been drawn and would probably taste better if he bought one at a
time. The Irishman then explained why he was drinking that way: "You see I have two brothers. One is in America, the other in Australia and I'm here in Dublin. When we all left home, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we all drank together." The bartender admitted that it was a nice thought |
and left it there. The
Irishman became a regular in the bar and always drank the same
way - ordering three pints and drinking the three pints by
taking sips from each of them in turn. Then one day, he came in and ordered just two pints. All the regulars noticed and suddenly the bar fell silent. When he went back to the bar for the second round, the bartender plucked up courage and said: "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but we all want to offer our condolences on your great loss." The Irishman looked confused for a moment, then a light twinkled in his eyes and he laughed. "Oh, no," he said, "All three of us are fine. It’s me......I've given up drinking!" |
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