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Ring your bells on Friday
Friday 27 July 2012 will be no ordinary morning. At 8.12 AM on the first day of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 'Work No.1197: All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes' by Turner Prize-winning artist and musician Martin Creed, will be performed throughout the UK.
The nation is invited to ring thousands of bells at the same time, whether schools bells, church bells, town hall bells, bicycle bells or door bells.
To make this performance happen, the All the Bells team invites bell ringers and those interested in ringing bells to sign up and get involved in the performance, alongside thousands of people across the country. Even Big Ben will be joining in, chiming over forty times in three minutes.
By ringing any kind of bell – hand bell, church bell, bicycle bell, door bell – you will be part of the performance and involved in welcoming the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to the UK
I think it would be a nice idea if we Fujians joined in and posted a picture or two of ourselves or our friends and family ringing our bells.
If you are up for it please post your comments and pictures taken on the day into this thread.
Most of all have fun 
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Hear the loud alarum bells -
Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now -now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear it fully knows,
By the twanging
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -
Of the bells,
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
Only One Thing For it ........Bring in the BELLS !
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Hi Ann
I mis-read your post to start with!! (sounds painful I thought) Our door bell will be going like the clappers on time.
Cheers.
Steve
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will a picture of smashing bells count
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, Today is a Gift
My abstract comp entry
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Who's that by. Stuart?
Alan - Parky54
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Alan ....It's by the prince of darkness himself ....Edgar Allan Poe !
http://www.online-literature.com/poe/575/
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The most appropriate bells to ring are to be found on tills - since this olympics is all about money, a commercial clangour from the southeast is to be expected!
George
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Good old Boris
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/24/boris-johnson-olympic-welcome-video_n_1697504.html
Jen xx
Don't run faster than your guardian angel can fly!
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/605815
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What a wonderful clip, Jen! I couldn't have put it better myself - everyone should see it as an antidote to the olympic hypodermic pain in the butt!
George
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They were talking about this on our local radio this morning and they ask the question "why at 08:12 in the morning?" No one Knew.
It would make sence if it was in the evening, then it would be 20:12. You don't think some one made a c**k up?
The Bells, The bells
Chris
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Brilliant Jen ...you can hardly spot the joins ...looks just like his normal prensentation style but doesn't he he do a nifty line in quick costume changes !
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Chris P I think you're right!! that would make more sense but if I'm up I'll ring a bell
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I found this about the bell ringing
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/going-out/articles/112389-bringing-in-the-olympics-with-all-the-bells/
But it still dosen't explain why at that time
Chris
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This is the same 'artist' that displayed an empty room, with lights going off and on?
I think we should substitue the 'e' for an 'a'.
This is not the first day of the Olympics either, there was a football match in Cardiff yesterday, what were they doing then?
Jen xx
Don't run faster than your guardian angel can fly!
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/605815
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Kicking a bell about?
George
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Hell's bells you are right!
By George!
Jen xx
Don't run faster than your guardian angel can fly!
http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/605815
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The ponies will think I`ve gone mad standing in their field ringing a bell!!...
Mary-Ann
Contrast: http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/610613
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I think you are right it should have been at 20.12 pm this makes more sense than 8.12 am!
I don't think that we need to stick to the specified time to take our pics as long as they are taken on Friday.
I hope to see some interesting bells....come on guys give it a go!
Ann Noden
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Here`s mine Ann... couldn`t hear the church bells though !!!
Off to Cowes to do some sailmaking now for the day
Mary-Ann
Contrast: http://www.myfinepix.co.uk/competition/entry/610613
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Here are mine
My neighbour
Mr N.
my neighbour's husband
and finally pottery bell being rung by myself ( they had all gone in so there was no-one to take my picture!!)
We couldn't hear our church bells either but they were ringing well yesterday evening.
Ann Noden
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There were various bells on Radio Scotland at 8.12, but our cathedral bells were silent. My till bell has not rung yet, due to the lack of money coming in here!
George