The has come that the Olympic Torch, currently on the way around the UK bringing the flame within 1 hour of 90% of the population, arrived in the North-East.
So at about 4 o clock, regardless of the torrential downpour that seemed to drift over and over again over the region, we set out to Tow Law to see it arrive. We got there an hour early and got ourselves a spot beside some policemen who we overheard tell a photographer was the best place for everything to happen. Awesome.