Olympic Torch!

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Just about to leave on the bikes to go and watch the torch come through the city. Whether you are a fan of the Olympics or not, this is a piece of history that I'm not going to miss..

See ya soon! :D
 
How exciting! I'd have loved to see it, but it isn't coming anywhere near us:( What with that, not getting tickets and then finding out that the BBC coverage will not all be available on Freeview, I am feeling pretty fed up about the whole thing now, from having been really excited before.

Hope you have a great time at the relay though, it's great that you get to see it:)
 
I'm going to try and see it, though not sure I'll be able to due to timings.

What I am dreading is getting to work on the day it comes close to the office. They are shutting a really major road nearby for the whole of the morning rush hour, can't quite see what will happen....
 
I wasn't particularly interested in seeing it but ended up working as part of the marketing team for the council - the excitement from the crowds was quite infectious! 40,000 people came out to see it trot through Huddersfield on Sunday and 11,000 in Dewsbury on Monday morning. The first lady who run with it on Sunday morning was completely mobbed before she set off, people desperate to have their photograph taken with her and/or touch the torch!
 
Brilliant atmosphere!

...and a lovely evening as well....

Glad to be part of history now!

My mum was born the year the Olympics were last in London, back in 1948, so she was buzzing too!

:D
 
I touched a real one on Monday!! A boy from school was chosen to carry it through our town, and he brought it in to the open day - it has it's own little drawstring sack thingy to live in :D

Just read that and it sounds like I'm at school lol - I mean my kids' school :)
 
It can sod off. It's coming right past the back of my house tommorow and is causing huge disruption accross Nottingham for the next two days. Major roads in Nottingham are shut, patients can't get to their hospital appointments, I'm having to have the afternoon off work as if I go to my 4pm appointment I can't get home.

It's crazy here!
 
I also went but we were by the brayford :)

Here are the two pics I manged to get ( under all the freebies we got :D )
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Made all the better by knowing 2 of the torch barers, who had kept
 
Flags , cola ( holidays are coming ;) ) some inflatable noisey things !!!!

Mini MW is going to another village school tomorrow to see it, an apparantly they get t shirts etc

I forgot the local Hilton hotel was giving away cakes, sandwiches , but we missed that :(
 
Came through Carlisle last week but I went showjumping instead :)

My dad and brother went to watch and missed it!
Although as it came through Carlisle twice mum got to see it the next day go right outside her work
A boy from school brought his torch in so I still got to see one haha :D
 
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