Well, countdown has started for the Olympic Games flame to burn brightly in Paris from July 26 - and that inspires me to fire the starting pistol for a concerted campaign to bring the world’s most celebrated sporting festival to dear old Norfolk.
This extravaganza needs an overhaul, a new set of values, a fresh series of contests in which ordinary mortals can excel.
Perhaps the only floor exercise you can manage is scrubbing kitchen tiles and individual foil means preparing the chicken for Sunday dinner. Maybe a three-day event is a weekend binge that leaves you with a Monday hangover and the 100 metres is your idea of a good working title for a gasman’s memoirs.
The Norfolk-based Olympiad should be right up your loke. Not least if you are a fan of the noble art of croquet. It came and went in the 1900 Olympics with no apparent hoop of more invitations. If Hunstanton wins rights to stage part of our Norfolk Games, it could be back with a vengeance, a local team........