Sunday 9.20 a.m.: There are very few Orangemen about compared to this time on "Drumcree Sunday" in other years. But there are a lot of journalists. A sign on Carleton Street Orange Hall reads: "We are also British". A mist begins to fall.
A Swedish camera crew interview Mr Denis Watson, Armagh County Grand Master and secretary of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. "Violence has no part to play in this institution," he says. The Parades Commission is "an unelected quango" not even accountable to government, he adds. A young man passing by leans to the microphone and whispers "no surrender".
9.40 a.m.: A man in tee-shirt and tattoos is handing out leaflets about a massacre of six Protestants by "Roman Catholic terrorists" at Altnaveigh, Co Armagh on "June 17th, 1922".
9.45 a.m.: Numbers are growing. The sun appears through watery clouds. "God's a Prod," someone remarks. District Sword Bearer William - he won't give his surname - wonders "what peace process, when the IRA blow up a police barracks [a reference to the car bomb in Stewartstown]?"'. He is 70 and has been parading the route for 50 years, leading it for four years.
10.10 a.m.: Speeches are made from the first-floor window of the Orange hall. District Chaplain the Rev Dwane Russell prays to "the great Lord that our rights and liberties be returned to us again".
10.15 a.m.: Ballymena DUP councillor Mr Maurice Mills explains to reporters that last week's violence was orchestrated by "the pro-agreement camp", involving "pro-agreement paramilitaries. . .simply to discredit those still at Drumcree". Johnny Adair was being manipulated by the "yes" camp, he says.
10.20 a.m.: Twenty minutes late, the parade sets off to muted clapping from a crowd which is smaller than in previous years. So too is the number of Orangemen taking part.
10.40 a.m.: The parade passes the Protestant Corcrain estate. "Better to die on your feet than live on your knees," reads a hoarding at the front of timber pallets gathered on the green there for Tuesday's eve of the 12th bonfire. Pallets are piled high at its centre, with a UFF flag at the top. The crowd claps as the parade passes.
10.58 a.m.: There is a huge security and media presence at St John's Catholic church, cut off from the parade by razor wire.
11.05 a.m.: The parade turns into the Drumcree Road. Looking back, there are Orangemen as far as the eye can see. "About 1,500" is the general media estimate.
11.10 a.m.: As the march passes the rectory, the bell of the church is heard across the fields.
11.20 a.m.: At the church a group of women from the Shankill Road hold posters saying "Orange Feet Will Walk the Garvaghy Road".
11.35 a.m.: The church service begins with Hymn 27, O Lord Our Help in Ages Past.
12.06 p.m.: In his sermon, the Rev John Pickering speaks of the valley as a symbol of despair. At the bottom of Drumcree hill, with its bridge and stream flowing through, was a valley which had become a symbol of Northern Ireland, he says, while the barricade on the bridge was a symbol of the division there. But people should "look to this church from the valley below and consider what this church represents. Then they will get the help required. This church represents God. It represents hope," he says.
12.22 p.m.: The service ends with the congregation singing God Save the Queen.
12.45 p.m.: Orangemen crowd down the hill to the barricade which blocks the parade's progress along Garvaghy Road. A man is giving out leaflets stating "Prepare to meet thy God". Posters attached to the barricade include one with a crossed-out tricolour - it reads "The Ulster conflict is about nationality: IRISH OUT". A man with a flag diverts the camera crews by attempting to cross the razor wire and then the streams. He is cheered by onlookers.
Orangemen in the crowd turn on the media. "F . . ing Taigs, f . . .ing half-breeds, a bunch of monkeys, all they are are a bunch of puppets," shouts one Orangeman. An America cameraman is called "a half-caste Taig". He begins to defend the media and is rounded on.
"Thirty years of bombing and who do ye blame it on?" began an enraged young woman. She blames the media for "slandering" the Order over the deaths of the three Quinn children in 1998 and the disruption of Joey Dunlop's funeral last week. "If it was left up to me I wouldn't let you [the media] stand here at all," she said. The American cameraman and his colleagues leave. "Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio," chant the Orangemen," one down and plenty more to go".
12.56 p.m.: The Portadown Orangemen come down the hill to the barricade. District secretary Nigel Dawson says it is the first Sunday in 104 that a senior RUC officer has not been there to receive their protest. Mr Russell leads prayers and asks God to "grant that this hideous barrier will be taken away". Harold Gracey is cheered wildly when he goes to speak. He refers to the SDLP's Ms Brid Rogers. "The witch, the witch, the Garvagh Garvaghy witch," chant a group of women.
He urged "our people" to continue with their protests, pointing out that it was street protests which finished the poll tax. He said John Hume brought the people onto the streets in 1969, which brought with it 30 years of violence, and he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "He has the cheek to say I am irresponsible," he says and is cheered again. He urges the crowd to "stand fast. We're all in this together. Don't let the media misrepresent what this organisation is about".
District Deputy Master David Burrows demands that Mr David Trimble call an emergency session of the Assembly to discuss Drumcree. He urges support for the protests later today and says a parade will leave Derrycarne Orange hall for Drumcree at 7.30 this evening. A mobile phone goes off. It plays The Sash. The crowd begins to move off. It begins to rain. Soon it is a downpour.