It's "all Greek to me" !

Oh Dear ! I feel that the omens are bad, although I have not as yet sacrificed a chicken and poked around in it’s giblets for a sign of disaster, but could anything be more alarming than the Olympic flame being blown out at the very start of it’s journey ?

Perhaps those ancient Greek gods sent an invisable Hermes to extinguish the flame as a sign that they are upset about the state of their old country’s economy. Pity they didn’t let Zeus zap Seb Coe with one of his lightening bolts while they were at it.

Let’s hope that the residents of Mount Olympus are not too pissed off, or as in Homer’s ‘Iliad’, Apollo might shoot a few “arrows of plague” causing mayhem in the toilets at every ‘McDonald’s' in the Olympic Park; or Poseidon might make it piss down on the pentathlon. Don’t forget that Ares was let loose in Europe not long after the Nazis hijacked the Games in 1936, when they also introduced the ‘cheese grater’ torch relay which had not been part of the original load of old cobblers sacred ceremony.

Now I doubt if there is an oracle around here, and I know for certain that it would be hard to find a ‘virgin’ priestess, so I will have to look to Spiros at the local kebab shop for a prophetic prediction about further intervention by those meddlesome deities from ancient times. I just hope that he doesn’t turn my souvlaki into …

… a burnt offering !