Excellent! My dear friends in Swansea emailed me today with pictures of it going past their house too. We have a long wait for it. It will pass our village on it's way from Maidstone to Guildford and I'm pretty certain that's it's last day before it goes to London.

Edit: Faved the last one : - )

Twiglet, thanks. Hope it's worth the wait when it arrives.

Taniwha, haha. A Sad reflection of our times. I bet the people running the last stages of the torch relay past Twiglet's house are gutted - the market will probably be saturated by then!

The design's come in for a lot of stick, but I quite like it! A giant one of those would have looked better than The Orbit anyway : )

It's going past my work place towards the end of the month... i am not looking forward to... i suggested we closed for the morning, but no such luck.

Shows just how low the British have sunk - they'll spend & spend on this corrupt corporate circus, but they resent giving bread to the poor.

Every day I become a little more ashamed of my country...

crickson, I guess they do look quite stylish in a blingy sort of way.

Wendle, hopefully they'll let you out to see it though?

hildegard, yes it is a bit of a circus.

Sorry C, that came off far more grumpy than intended.

Was feeling more hopeless than cross - had just found out that a drugs project a college friend worked for has closed down. It was a good project run on a shoestring & it helped a lot of people in an area with a lot of need.

It's the sort of thing I've heard so often lately & though I do think the olympics a daft bunfight, this is stalwart pensioners & grinning charity workers. I hadn't expected it to lay me so low.

Sympathise with anyone who can't get their camera to work ;) Agree with Hildegard about the 'bread and circuses' aspect of it all

cariadus, i don't want to see it! I meant i suggested we closed so i wouldn't have to be there at all ;)