The Commonwealth Games

Did you follow the Commonwealth Games? After so much gloom and doom before they began, all seemed to go quite well really.

Paul Hobson, writing in the Baptist Times on 1 October said about the Games, "It'll be fine. It's India". And those who have been fortunate to visit the country, as we have, will know what he means.

He ends his article by saying, "Do not be surprised if the 2010 Commonwealth Games are a huge success." I think he got it right! Except, perhaps, for the fact that England came third in the medals table, behind the host nation.

Actually, on the BBC web site they had alternative ways of showing the medals table. One was medals by population. We come a miserable 18th. But out front by far is Nauru which, with one gold and one silver and a population of 10,000, they are easy winners!

You may be thinking, where on earth is Nauru? Good question! Apparently it's a Pacific Island to the north of Papua New Guinea. Economically it's not in a good state, so especially well done to the Nauruians!