Then I'm going to ring my bike bell and mobile ringtone for 3 minutes at 0812, a rather stylish celebration, coming 12 hours before 2012 - see what they did there?
After a bacon buttie somewhere I shall go to work for the day and then leave around 1730 to go to our lovely friend Giules's beautiful house (she's got an amazing Ostrich side-table thing I'm looking forward to seeing), to watch the Opening Ceremony on telly.
The big question of course is who is going to light the flame. Seb Coe claims the decision is in the hands of Danny Boyle, not sure I entirely believe that. My favourite flame lighting was probably the archer in Barcelona, that was really cool.
My instant reaction when we won it was that it had to be Steve Redgrave - 5 Golds in 5 Games is epic, and he is one of our Greatest Olympians. The never shy Daley Thompson has been pushing himself forward. One of the dames would be worthy as well, Mary Peters or Kellie Holmes. Tanni? Or even Seb. How about Her Maj, in this year of her jubilee? Even Beckham has been mentioned but that would be a travesty.
One of the most interesting ideas I've heard would be to have a kid who was born on the day we won the bid. That would fit in with the theme of the bid which was one of legacy & youth, and you could have one of the above helping them with the flame. You'd have to have a pretty composed 7 year old kid to pull that off.
I still think it should be an Olympian though. I'd be inclined to get David Bond, the only Gold medallist still alive from the 48 games, involved in some way. Maybe Roger Bannister - his breaking of the 4 minute mile record stands out as one of the finest achievements in athletics.
I suppose we'll know soon enough, it's only 24 hours away, but I can barely contain my excitement!
MIDNIGHT UPDATE
It's today!!!
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