HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations - that's a remarkable seventy years on the throne - starts today, with the Trooping of the Colour (a thousand or more men in uniform waving their weapons around; a dream in the making, if ever there was one), and an extra Bank Holiday for the masses.
We're off for a suitably-themed "Film Club" with the gang, all attired in red, while and blue...
Gawd bless yer, Ma'am!
Is it the Platinum already?!?!?!?! I haven't a thing to wear.....
ReplyDeleteI guess I too can just wave my weapon about.
As long as you're wearing a nice hat Her Maj will forgive many sins, dear! Jx
DeleteWhy not! She appears to have removed the lower denture. WTF?
DeleteShe's 96 and the Queen,. She's earned the right to do what she bloody well wants!
Delete"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we've no money for butter."
...and all that. Jx
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
DeleteAnd pick flowers in other people’s gardens
And learn to spit.
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Do you not do that already, Ms Scarlet? Jx
DeleteWho are you calling an old queen?!? My brother-in-law has a silver spoon from the queen’s coronation. He was a toddler and still remembers seeing her.
ReplyDeleteWe're all old queens, sweetie - but some are older than others :-)
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Congratulations, Your Maj! The finishing touches to my hat are just being made then I'll be winging my way to the palace.
ReplyDeleteYesterday was a lovely day for the start of the celebrations. I'm sure a few of those who were Trooping the Colour were just as hot and bothered as some of us watching it!
I didn't see you on the balcony, or were you skulking about behind the curtains with Harry and Meghan and the assorted cousins and hangers-on? Jx
DeleteHow dare you! I wouldn't be seen dead with Harry and Meghan.
DeleteI was supposed to be in the flypast, but Broom wasn't having any of it.
I didn't see you in the "Witchcraft" section - between the "Dames in Jags" and the "Glam Rockers", I believe (or maybe I imagined it) - of today's Pageant, either... Jx
DeleteBless 'er. This is the last jubilee that most of us will see, isn't it?
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Though we might get a couple of Coronations!
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If Her Maj follows the footsteps of the Queen Mum, there's every possibility of a centenary... Jx
DeleteOh, I hope so. I'm sure she can hang on for another four years. Although, Her Maj probably hasn't pickled/preserved herself as thoroughly as the Queen Mum...
DeleteOh, I reckon Lilibet's quite a tippler - Dubonnet & Gin, sweet white wine, dry Martini, and a glass of champers before bed, apparently - so I'm not surprised she's had "mobility difficulties" of late... Jx
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