Hi, as many of you know I work in the centre of Nottingham
so events like the Olympic torch relay are often more of an inconvenience that
anything else. I wasn't really that bothered about seeing the torch but was
staying on into the evening to watch my hubby play with the Nottingham Ukulele
orchestra. So after he met me at work we tried walking up to St Mary’s Church
in the lace market only to be turned away due to the Torch Relay. I hadn't even
looked at the route that it was taking, I knew it was going to the Old Market
Square and that was already closed and packed with people waving flags and
blowing weird little horns.
We backtracked and eventually found ourselves in the
graveyard of St Mary’s and joined a select few to watch the Torch as it went
through the lace market. I say select few as majority of the people with us
were also carrying the small black cases the ukuleles come in. We cheered; we
cheered the random pushbike, the photographer walking up the road, the kids
picking up the mementos from the procession buses. The bells tolled, the bells
stopped, the crowd were now cheering anything that moved. Eventually a person
in a white tracksuit suddenly appeared by the side of the road holding a torch,
non-fiery torch so we guessed that he was part of the relay.
Then there were MOTORBIKES!!! well that was me happy for a few mins :-)
Then the torch bearer appeared and we got to see them hand the flame over.
Other torch bearers passed by in a coach with big grins on their faces.
Having cheered the bit of fire and waved it on its way, we entered the Church for the concert, a beautiful building and the guys sounded really good.
we ended the night in the pub.....all in all not a bad evening.
Have a great weekend, Suexx
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