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Can I thank you for your unbiased, thorough and entertaining coverage. You've been the first (and often only) port of call for me to find out what's going on, and your entries over the last few days will be invaluable for so many people. I hope you get the recognition you deserve for all the effort you've put in. This is an example of what journalism is meant to look like.

Dan Wright | Homepage | 27.07.12 - 12:09 a.m. | #

Looking forward to those next 10 years of coverage!

Matt | 27.07.12 - 12:39 a.m. | #

will you be updating the countdown in the top right corner to be
life viewed from london e3
X days SINCE the Olympics ??

Jon Allen | 27.07.12 - 4:41 a.m. | #

No apologies needed. Interesting stuff and a unique perspective on it all. Please, do carry on!

Tim Burns Burns | 27.07.12 - 5:44 a.m. | #

Just wanted to say a quick thanks too - your posts in 2007 got me interested in the the strange hinterland around Hackney Wick, and let me know about the various changes that have been happening to it.

I'm working in the International Broadcast Centre during the games, and I daresay I'm one of the few people here who saw how things were before.

Hope you enjoy the next fortnight!

martin | 27.07.12 - 6:43 a.m. | #

History in the making.

Ham | Homepage | 27.07.12 - 6:44 a.m. | #

I hope that when the Olympic Park reopens a year or so after the games, that it will not just become a wild overgrown park but remain well looked after. Perhaps they should keep the perimeter security fence, and make it a paid to enter park, (like Kew Gardens but not Kew's prices) A small charge of say £5 for visitors from outside the area, and a free pass for local residence, would help to pay for the upkeep. The fence,fee and the necessity to go through a guarded entrance would deter vandals from getting in and destroying the place.
I off now to Teddington Lock to watch the torch pass through, hope to hear some bells ringing too! Maybe I'll ring my bicycle bell..
Your reports over the years covering the Olympics have been interesting and appreciated. Thanks.

John | 27.07.12 - 7:01 a.m. | #

Great coverage DG and I have enjoyed every day of it thank you for all the effort you have put into it over the years, I like you have also enjoyed living so close and it was great sitting on my roof terrace last evening listening to S?? ???? ????????? rehearsing his set for tonights ceremony.

fishislandskin | 27.07.12 - 8:03 a.m. | #

Thanks for all the updates over the past 10 years. I remember walking round the Bow Back Rivers 10 years ago thinking of what could be done with the area with a bit of planning. I enjoyed the 2007 walks around the Olympic site of what is now lost. I remember walking around there and seeing the piles of old tires.I will be happy when we get our tow paths back and we can walk around the park without the security fence.

KissenMe | 27.07.12 - 8:06 a.m. | #

Keep it coming

Brian | 27.07.12 - 8:08 a.m. | #

DG to light the Olympic Cauldron tonight!

Blue Witch | Homepage | 27.07.12 - 8:26 a.m. | #

Thanks DG. This week's posts have been particularly useful for my trip to the Opening Ceremony tonight ;-).

Robin | 27.07.12 - 8:36 a.m. | #

Whilst I'm pretty excited about the Olympics, I'm even more excited about the Paralympics because I've got 11 pairs of tickets (2 of them day passes and 3 of them including day passes), so will get to experience loads more of it in person.

Thanks DG for the always interesting Olympic coverage!

Darren | 27.07.12 - 9:14 a.m. | #

Thank you for your hard work Diamond Geezer, you are the first place I go for the Olympic info. Looking forward to watching it on the big screen in Victoria Park tonight and having been at the rehearsal on Monday I am very excited.

Vicki | 27.07.12 - 9:17 a.m. | #

You carry on sir, as said above its been a wonderful journey (albeit sometimes frustrating, bemusing and anger inducing) so far and we are lucky to have had you to help guide us through it.

I've shadowed a lot of your trips myself (even beating you to the odd place)but, unlike you, have neither the patience, perseverance or talent to blog about them.

I salute and thank you, let the games begin.

And let the wonderful but cynical Iain Sinclair be proved wrong about the legacy...

Cheers from a fellow Eastie.

CF

ChingfordFlaneur | 27.07.12 - 9:19 a.m. | #

ChingfordFlaneur | 27.07.12 - 9:20 a.m. | #

Just joining the chorus of approval - from being bored with the corporateness of it all, and angry about the allotments swept away and all the arguments against replacing them as promised, I'm now excited about the sport, the fact it's all here, in the East End. You singlehandedly had me changing my plans tonight so we can watch the opening ceremony - thanks for all your hard work and great writing over the last ten years.

| 27.07.12 - 10:05 a.m. | #

Still want to know where we can get the Nike Diamond Geezer polo shirt.

xmb53 | 27.07.12 - 10:21 a.m. | #

A much-over used but still sometimes valid word which means a lot coming from someone who still recognises only one meaning of the word 'literal': awesome. Thanks,DG.

As m'go-to Olympic expert: what do the various numbers on the official ids on lanyards mean? Eyesight not up to reading them like you. I've worked out that 45 must be media reps. Is 2 athletes? Please help before I get too close to someone elite at Westfield and get shot/arrested etc.

Karen | 27.07.12 - 10:33 a.m. | #

Thanks from me too DG: I must admit I started out relatively nonchalant but after 3 years of working on site at Stratford City and continued involved with Westfield (the Games have more or less kept me in a job), it's hard to feel too cycnical. I had a tear in my eye reading the Metro this morning and am right into it all! Planning a trip down to Blackfriars to watch Gloriana pass at lunchtime.

And @Blue Witch, I'm with you: DG to light the flame!

Happy London 2012 DG-ers!

EP

EskimoPie | 27.07.12 - 10:41 a.m. | #

Just a simple thanks!

Cornishmonkey | 27.07.12 - 10:49 a.m. | #

I have been watching that little countdown clock in your sidebar ever since I first came onto this blog some five years ago, back when it was well into the 1,800s. Seeing it as zero now makes me realise that, finally, the Games have arrived.

I could rant all day about my doubts with the Olympics, whether it's the ticketing, the security or the transport, but considering that these Games will probably only happen in London once in my lifetime, I think it's best to now sit back, put my reservations aside, and enjoy them.

Here's hoping London will reap the benefits of these Olympics for many years to come.

Andrewh | Homepage | 27.07.12 - 11:06 a.m. | #

Your posts are great, DG. Hope you enjoy whatever events you have tickets for. I'm sorry now that I won't be in London at all during the next fortnight.

Charles | 27.07.12 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Keep on keeping on DG your up close and personal view has been fascinating and useful, I suspect yesterday's piece on entrances & exits will prove to be invaluable as I'm coming on 3 or 4 of the busiest days.
See you there indeed.
Thanks again

Sciurus Carolinensis Nemesis | 27.07.12 - 12:27 p.m. | #

It's always those last few weeks that sees the excitement revved up to fever pitch, and for me it was the arrival of the Torch in London.
I'm hoping I can still get a day pass into the park.
What an amazing twist of fate when you moved to Bow at just the right time, and decided to start a blog about living there! You are definitely the Samuel Pepys of today.
It's the East Ends Moment to Shine, and you're shining the brightest of all. Thank you.

CornishCockney | 27.07.12 - 1:03 p.m. | #

Wow… despite the build-up, it’s a little hard to believe the Games are actually here… that little countdown clock in the corner finally says ‘0’ and I’m so excited.

I can’t understand why anyone would expect you NOT to write about the biggest spectacle on earth happening minutes away from you! Anyhow, thanks to you DG from a fellow eastender, your exemplary coverage of this from the start has always been a pleasure to read and my first port of call for anything Olympics-related. If there’s a gold medal for preserving in thoughtful words and captivating images the astounding changes that have happened to this once industrial – and let’s face it, grotty (but with much charm and history, if often hidden) – East London hinterland, then it has your name on it.

7 years of highs and lows and now finally, finally… the world has been invited right here in our backyard so let the fun and Games of the XXXth Olympiad begin …!

s | 27.07.12 - 1:31 p.m. | #

I love your olympic coverage. Look forward to much more!

Rachel | Homepage | 27.07.12 - 3:07 p.m. | #

If there were a gold medal for blogging, you would win it :-)

I am an ex-pat Londoner (live in Co.Durham) and I have learned so much about London from your blog. Thanks.

Jill | 27.07.12 - 3:53 p.m. | #

I too have enjoyed all your comments. Not able to attend myself, I felt as if I was truly there. Thanks.

TinafromSurrey | 27.07.12 - 10:15 p.m. | #

Danny Boyle says: "Thanks for the idea about Mary Poppins - 'twas pure genius, to be sure"

RogerW | 28.07.12 - 12:05 a.m. | #

Oh... and tonight I got to see the Royal car cortege, including (I'd like to think, the Queen).
I was on my way from south of the river to Victoria Park, when I saw a lot of coppers directing traffic on the A12.
I stopped, largely out of curiosity to see if they were pulling over people using the Zil lane.
Next thing that happens, the Royal Rolls Royce (the maroon and black one with the high roof) comes by, followed by a procession of others.
And aonly a short time later, the Red Arrows shot past (albeit not on the A12)

RogerW | 28.07.12 - 12:17 a.m. | #

Isnt it sad how things have changed? Ok, perhaps not. We have had regeneration of the type that may otherwise have taken a generation to occur. But oh! YYJ 18 I miss you. I have your insulators in my garden. My nearest pylons are now miles away. Never forget.

Flash Bristow | Homepage | 30.07.12 - 12:00 a.m. | #

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