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Apparently we are all requested to ring any bells we can lay hands on for three minutes on Friday, between 8.12 and 8.15 am. According to the Today programme, it includes doorbells.

So, don't forget.

Three minutes? My dogs will go crazy. Will my alarm clock do instead?

Yep! That'll be fine.

I have a Big Ben chime on my door bell I guess I can get OH to stand at the front door ringing...

That might please people round here as Big Ben was cast in the local bell foundry. There was up roar when the manufacture of the bell at the centre of the Olympics was awarded to a different company and then cast in Holland. Especially as Seb Coe used to train at the local university

Kitchen timer?

I may just stay in bed....

There's a gathering at a church car park near here where everyone is getting together to ring what ever bell they can bring!

Ha! Did anyone see Twenty-twelve last night? There was a joke about everyone banging saucepans for a minute - supposedly an antidote to a minute's silence. It wasn't the best episode but still some very funny moments.

This is also a joy, for any fans
www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xjY0784vHN8

So, if I do make a racket jangling the bell outside the back door (used to call DH in from the shed), everyone in the area will know why I'm doing it?

It won't be just me will it? potential

I've got one of those bells. The chain has fallen off so I'll have to use a bit of baler twine.

The neighbours working night-shifts might not be so enthusiastic!

I'm sorry but that has just got to be a wind-up, right

Chris Evans said something about this on the one show last night

It's an artwork.

Well, that's what it says in the paper. [shrug]

getmehrt It was brilliant. Wish there was more to come. Haven't got a bicycle bell but our door bell rings with the tune...'When you are in love...' Mr soop chose it Perhaps I shall stand on the doorstep and ring away to my heart's content. Our one neighbour is hard of hearing [and like us, slightly barmy] he'll not bat an eyelid.

Oh for heaven's sake! The world has gone mad. OK, call me a killjoy.............

I quite like the idea of Big Ben sounding excited.

Is this a wind up????

It's not a wind-up! It's all part of Opening Ceremony day, details here...

www.allthebells.com/

At a Farmers Market in our village last weekend the Town Crier announced it. There are a couple of events close by, but I can't find a bell anywhere! I will find/make/improvise some sort of a bell and join in!

Right then I will have the DGC up and on the door step with their bicycle bells and raise the street

I have down loaded the bells ringtone too, might as well go the full hog!!!

glass, show the GKs how to whizz the little pointy hand along all the bell pictures without stopping.

Makes a helluva racket.

Go on!!

Make sure you've got the sound on.