Well, we've seen it......

 

.....and in the centre of Walsall too...

 

....unfortunately the bearer had got that metal thing stuck right in front of our face as she passed us....

"Awe mum" I heard a little girl cry in front of me "They could have used a really big torch" I think she was expecting to see the one used in the opening ceremony.

                              The street changed from this....

                 ......to this in a few minutes as more and more people poured into the town.

    After the convoy had passed we walked with the crowds down to the town hall where the Torch stopped for lunch!   Afterwards it went on it's way and 1/2 an hour later the same street looked like this....

     While the torch was been fed we wandered round the street entertainers.  I couldn't help thinking we would all look like this....

               ...if the Olympic sponsers-McDonalds and Coca-Cola- had their way....

      Everyone paused to look at the huge rank of police bikes parked in the street....

  
               .....and this young girl in her chair had proudly carried her torch and then stopped to let people pose for photos with it.  I thought it rather sad that in the scramble to get their precious photos, no-one seemed to be aware of the person in the chair.  "Ask Zakia" I heard her father [?] say over and over again  as people pushed forward to grab at her torch. It was as much her special moments as it was anyone else's, and she was beaming with pride at her achievement.