An earlier post complained that organisers of the tall ships berthing in Woolwich on the eve of the Olympics were asked by police not to publicise their arrival as they didn't have sufficient officers to control a crowd (in the event virtually nobody turned up).
Now we learn that the owners of the Chinese junk Huantian (see earlier post) had booked the great Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang to play on board in St Katherine Docks to celebrate the Chinese athletes' triumphs. An expensive piano was hired, too. But at the last minute the dock authorities prevented the concert going ahead on the grounds that if anybody in the dock heard Lang Lang playing they were liable to drum up a vast and uncontrollable crowd using Twitter, Facebook and other social media.
It was just one more problem for Huantian, which missed the Queen's Jubilee Thames pageant because she was delayed in the Suez Canal, then couldn't get out of St Katherine Docks when the lock gates jammed. The lock gates still aren't working properly.
The picture here of Huantian here is from yesterday's webcam, posted on Ships and Boats in London's website).
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