Ian Martin. Encounters with Cocky, Toddler and the Hon. Aeneas Upmother-Brown

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To a conference hosted by the Political Landscape Architects Institute. Summary: expect rose gardens, ambitious climbers and creepers, intellectual gnomes, ironic 'swords of freedom', tighter border controls, spinney management and admission fees.rnTUESDAY. Olympic RebadgingTask Force. Extraordinary meeting. For a start we're not in a committee room but on board a luxury Thames barge with very little in the way of an agenda, though with every incitement to get pissed, including a 'trad jazz band'.rnBizarrely, about half the people on this floating drink tank are sweltering inside stupid costumes. My old mate Loaf the mayor of London has on his obligatory Cadbury's Creme Egg Sponsors Of The London Olympics outfit. The catering staff are all shuffling precariously about in tapered Olympic Flame suits. And photographers are gathered around task force chair Suzi Towel.