First of all- what a weekend!
By the time you are reading this I expect the weather will
have returned to its usual self (raining) and any remaining interest in the
Royal family could be waning. Not mine though. I started out the weekend as one
of the many ‘why shouldn’t we have a Queen’ people- on the basis that we have
one already and so why should we change it. After watching Her Majesty float
down the Thames waving for 4 hours, all in the smacking rain and wind, I was
completely bowled away.
There are 86 year old women that come into the newsagents.
They use the chair we leave by the card stand, invariably wheezing and moaning
about the top of the hill and the speed of everybody. I am probably told three
or four times a day that ‘things don’t work as they used to’. To see the Queen
then, whom the Express recently reported has worked more days in 2012 than all
the MPs, going so strongly after sixty years of the job, I feel so proud I want
to start licking a stamp. One of our stamps. With our Queen on.