I just don’t care very much, frankly. Half a million people going into the city tonight for the opening?? Don’t people have better things to do? I guess I can understand it to some extent – it’s an excuse for a party, I suppose, and maybe there are people who genuinely feel some sort of ?patriotism? for Australia/the Commonwealth (although quite how you would feel it for something that really only exists for plebs every four years, I don’t know…).

Anyway. I am old and cynical.

I do rather worry that I will be sucked into watching some of it on TV.