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Hi, Rusty!
Yes, you have remembered correctly - Bromley is in Kent!
Now , I have been very busy, looking up "muscle memory"......it seems that muscle-related tasks seem easier to do if they have been done previously, as though the muscle 'remembers'.
And apparently - if I have understood it correctly - it is the cell nuclei in the muscle fibres which are responsible for this "memory".
So I am therefore assuming that if there are added nuclei present - due to steroids taken previously at any stage - then it will be extra advantageous for the individual (say athlete) who has used steroids for body -building in training; as there will be more nuclei than normal to "remember ".
Thus giving an enhanced performance..................
Does all that make sense? Are you following my reasoning?
(And if I haven't got it right, then I'm sure someone reading this will disillusion me!)
I'm still trying to figure why four colour recycling bins....?
We have two...one black, one green......

Good evening, Elle!
Yes, I comprehend what you say, and also what Rosalind says, and am in full agreement. The "steroid effect" is permanent and so too, should be the punishment.
Jon Snow asked Coe if he had been "sleeping or corrupt" when all this was taking place. I think there is a lot more to come.
The bins! Now, we have a green one for "food" waste, a burgundy one for "bottles and glass", a blue one for "paper, cardboard, and washed tins etc", a grey one for "unrecycleable" waste, and a brown one for "grass and garden" waste. I think that is all. Council seems very keen on recycling!

Don't speak too soon about the recycling bins, Rusty - some Scottish councils offer householders a big, black compost bin too!

I would love to be able to put green garden waste in a bin- we can but have to pay for one. Using plastic bags, we can also recycle batteries, completely rubbish clothes and small electrical items. Oxfordsire ran out of landfill sites some years ago and has to pay other counties for theirs.

I think reusing some of the metals that people have inside them should be considered. Surely enough heat denatures all baddies?

Banning Russians from the Games will be political dynamite- Qui sine peccato est and all that. I shan't watch any of the Games anyway, but I should imagine the methods of performance enhancement are getting more subtle.

RE banning drug offenders, Ros.......

"He who is without sin shall throw the first stone........."?
I think the idea though, Ros, Is to be strict right across the board - one rule for all? deal out the same treatment for everyone caught transgressing? regardless of which nationality?
In that case I don't think Coe has to come from a guiltless country himself to deal out 'punishment'?
'm sure we have our problems here, too - and I'm sure Seb Coe is well aware of that, but some sort of rigid stand needs to be taken.

I love watching Athletics, as you know, and I am so saddened by all this.

Hi, Rusty!
Goodness me! We have a small black container for paper, a green one of the same size for plastics / glass / cans ( all mixed together) and a different shade of green , slightly taller one with a lid (!) for waste food.
Unrecyclable waste is put outside in black bags.
That is the extent of Bromley Council's recycling powers!
I think your local council, Rusty, is making an "Art form" of its re-cycling!
And speaking of Art................tomorrow I am meeting my friend Sue (from Tewin) up in London and we are going to see the Frank Auerbach exhibition at the Tate Britain Gallery.
We did consider the Goya exhibition, but this is more to our taste.
Frank Auerbach is a live artist, ; I think he is 84 years of age?
Do you know of him?
We shall probably see the Goya at a later date.
I am looking forward to it! and to catching up on all the news in person with my friend!

Elle, I think my council are a bunch of pests with their ideas.
I have a list of what to put in each bin and what not to put in each bin, and how in the name of the wee man am I supposed to know what they can recycle or not! And... they want bottles and cans washed out, and tin cans flattened. They do not say how to flatten cans and I can see our local A&E doing a roaring trade in sliced fingers! Tewin? Is that in Wales? It sounds Welsh to me.
Elle, I know nothing about art. I prefer photographs.
We are getting a bit of the V and A museum up here at the waterfront. I have no idea what will be in it, though.

Rusty, I am picturing a queue outside A &E at your local hospital............!
I have no idea how to flatten a tin/ can - we are only required to wash them out!
Photography is also an Art form - and you like photographs! especially land / seascapes.
I went to a photography exhibition by David Bailey - it was excellent, although I don't know whether you would have enjoyed that, as they were photographs of people not landscapes. But extremely cleverly done.
So you are getting a V & A on your waterfront? How far advanced dare they in the planning/ building of it?
Do you know, that is one place I have never been?

One of our ~British friends bought over a 'can flattener' for that very purpose, but this was quite a few years ago; initially I think this contraption, which did not work very well, was only meant to gain space. But you put a flatten tin in a bin bag and it cuts it open ! and it becomes dangerously sharp too - so the 'gizzmo' went to the bin itself !

Elle, no messing with my council!
Flatten your tins, or else!
I am not sure what is happening about V&A. I know a Japanese man designed it. It is an odd looking building. It was meant to stick out into the river but that was going to be too expensive and it has been modified.
I am not certain where it is, as the waterfront is constantly changing. I would get lost. £600 millions spent on it so far.
A lot of money!