MARCHING Ambassadors and fellow Spalding volunteers from the Games are settling back to everyday life after the experience of a lifetime.
Five Ambassadors, including three generations of one family, took part in the opening and closing ceremonies in London.
Yesterday Jim Bright, daughter Cathrine and grandson Tristan arrived back at their London hotel at about 3am before setting off for Spalding at midday.
Tristan said: “We were marshalling the closing ceremony – we were the people dressed in blue with light bulbs on our heads.”
Jim said: “It was a party atmosphere.”
Spalding mother and daughter Brenda Watson and Helen Short worked behind the scenes – Brenda in village management and Helen as a driver for athletes and families.
Brenda saw famous figures like Princess Anne, Lord Coe, Beth Tweddle and Jonathan Edwards as she signposted athletes to different activities.
Helen, an IT trainer at Peterborough City Hospital, said they answered an ad before Christmas but never thought they would get in.
They are allowed to keep their uniforms as a souvenir.