A
right royal day for the UK. Why? The royal gent down the Thames to mark Queen
Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee. That’s an awful long time to hold down a job.
Pretty rare by today's standards
Three
years in the planning the river pageant the only
thing that was out of their control was the weather. And it rained. A
remark by one of the commentators at the end of the TV broadcast said that the
rain had in some way made it even more British.
The
Man and I had excellent seats to watch the watery pageant sail past. No. Don’t
be silly. There was no way either of us was going to be daft enough to get
caught up in that kind of crowd. We watched it from the comfort of our living room couch.
And
pleased we were that we did, it has rained all day and been quite chilly too.
It would not have been very pleasant for the small watercraft rowing along the Thames for several hours At
least they didn’t have o contend with the strong tidal flow. Canute may not
have been able to hold back the tide, but the organizers of pageant succeeded, in the Thames at least. Working in
conjunction with the maintenance crew at the Thames barrier the pageant organizers arranged for the once a year raising of the barrier to be done
today. What a clever piece of forward planning.
Thames Barrier on a lovely sunny day August 2010
Wavy box hedges in what must have been a waterway near the Thames barrier. The modern looking building it the background is actually railway station
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