Lottery Funding? In London?

I'd be gobsmacked if anyone other than the sodding Olympics get any money from the Lottery before 2012. I know other organisations have been turned down flat recently, and the Olympics bid has been cited as the reason why.

It was all over the Evening Standard a while back that the estimates for the Olympics have skyrocketed, and that most of the available grant money in London is being diverted towards that.

Now, if we could get the athletes to do the "100 metre Circassian Circle", I'd consider it money slightly better spent than the last white elephant (aka "The Millennium Dome").

Bah. Don't get me started.