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The Games
Copyright Irv Graham

Ivvory waan knaas aboot the Olympic Games but if you delve into its history you’ll find it all started in Geordieland.
It all began in the time of George the Fanciful. Son of George Longshanks he wanted all the young men to be fit and strong. So he decided to hold a tournament which he declared a Geordie holiday, and he called it race week. As the name implies it was all to do with racing, there was sack racing, three-legged racing, long and short distance racing, hurdle racing, teams running aboot passing poss-sticks to each other racing. In fact all the racing you could wish for.
Now where there’s racing there’s gambling, where there’s gambling there’s crowds, Which in turn attracted the Gypsies. They came with their crystal balls and side shows, which all went to put the young men off the games. So George the Fanciful banned the Gypsies from gannin.
This infuriated old Rosy Lee so she put a curse on the games, every year it would pour from the heavens. Well you canna race aboot in aal them claggy clarts, so George let the Gypsies come back but by this time old Rosy was deed. So the curse couldn’t be lifted, and to this very day it still pours down all race week. That’s no hokey.