olympic torch

More like a hurricane lamp?

The flam was carriedon the plane in a safety lantern like the miners used to use (but not a Davey lamp)

Saw the flame go through early this morning - it's quite a procession - police motorcyclists, police cars & buses. The flame passes so quickly though and the officers from The Met didn't half make a row - if anyone was asleep they wouldn't have been after they went past. There were only a few people with flags though, whether this is because we are in the middle of a housing estate I don't know.

I was in two minds whether I could be 'bothered' to walk about a mile or so this afternoon to see the torch go through my home town today, but in the end decided to go.
I admit I am not a great Olympics fan - will watch some bits and avoid others - but there was such a tremendous atmosphere today.
People lining the streets with flags, everyone talking to those around them (total strangers), people of all ages, The police waving to the crowds, no hint of trouble and a great feeling of community spirit.
It is a piece of history and I now know that I made the correct decision in stirring myself out of my chair!!!
Anyone like me thinking "Shall I? Shan't I?" - if I was you I would do it!!! I was out and back in less than an hour and am really glad I went!

Me too Dahlia. Those who enjoy it are welcome, but I'm hanging on for Wimbledon

Feel like a real killjoy, but this fuss about the torch bores me to tears, especially when so much of the BBC news yesterday was devoted to the arrival of the "flame " (in a Davey lamp) to our nearby base at Culdrose. There was a whole weekend in Falmouth around the flame coming through the town, I really wouldn't have been tempted to go up our drive to see it. And although I know it is stupid when you think about it, I really believed someone was going to run with it all the time, not run to the end of the road and then get in a car!
I may look at one or two of the events when the Olympics actually begin, but as I have no interest in sport, it won't keep me glued to the screen!

GERALDINE!!!

It needs to be a woman.

Someone with the torch in one hand and a nice feminist banner in the other.

Gosh, you're aging fast, jingl!

Yes, I did wonder.....

Anagram not anagran!

Stephen Redgrave is boring.

On coming back to this thread have realised that that emoticon to Anagram could have been badly misinterpreted!!!!

Should have been [tongue sticky-out]

Sorry Anagran

I think it should be Sir Stephen Redgrave

MORRRNIIIING JIIINNNGGGLLLLLLEEE!!!!

Anagram [ts-o]

Ariadne Nah!

j03?

And..j03 do I recognise your style???

j03

or Kate in her hockey jeggings.

SIMON COWELL!!!!

Yeah!

He'd be good. Done a lot for British culture/exports. Put us on the map he has.

No! He/she might hurt themselves!

"The final torchbearer, whose identity is kept secret until the last moment, lights the monumental Olympic cauldron in the stadium,"

I wonder who that will be?!

David Beckham? Wills?

I hope it's a little kid. That would be nice.

"It also went out in 1976 after the Montreal Olympics had started and an official mistakenly relit it using a cigarette lighter."



I suppose that was marginally better than him using the flame to light his fag.

I dunno though..............

I'm sort of interested in the Flame as it passes along the road at the top of my road. Other than that I may watch the opening and closing ceremonies unless I'm doing something else more interesting. Other than that, I am not in the slightest bit interested in the Olympics