R***l W*****G

[Catherine]

Hi Monika, Hope you are feeling much better now and enjoying the garden.

[donedigging]

I will be working as well

[Geoff]

I suppose it was very good of them to give us a Bank Holiday for our 39th wedding anniversary but as we are retired it doesn't mean much, rather like the main event.

[Catherine]

I don't work Fridays anyway so a bank holiday makes no difference to me either.

[oldherbaceous]

We do sound a grumpy old lot, don't we.

[Catherine]

Funnily enough I was thinking the same thing after I had posted OH.

[Kleftiwallah]

I am of the "Mean owl squad" I don't give a hoot. ! Cheers, Tony.

[Stephen]

I shall be with my father, who has his 87th birthday that day. Neither he nor I have any desire to watch the event, but no doubt we shall be "treated" to some highlights on every news bulletin for the next 24 hours or so. There is little point in trying to avoid it completely.
OTOH: My sister and neice will be watching.
In the afternoon we shall all meet at "The Orchard" in Granchester (I assume it will be open) for a long, leisurely tea.

Winston Churchill said "it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." I feel much the same about the monarchy, other systems for a head of state are often worse. Just think, we might have elected Margaret Thatcher as President. Just think on that and tremble! (If your political views differ, just think of the other politicians or even the cardboard celebrities who might stand and make the election utterly absurd)

[Primrose]

I've just had an e-mail from my cousin in Canada. She and a group of friends are planning on getting together at the ungodly hour of 3 a.m. on Friday to watch the wedding live on TV. Their lounge will be decorated with bunting and flags and they'll be following it with a Bucks Fizz breakfast.

[Monika]

Have a lovely birthday party for your grandson, PJ. We have nine grandchildren, from 5 years to 24 years, but the firstborn will always be a special favourite of mine (I don't tell him, though!). So, have fun!

And yes, thank you, Catherine, I am recovering nicely. Spent all morning on the allotment, planting sunflowers, celeriac and sweet peas and doing lots of watering.

[Parsons Jack]

Hi Monika,

You're a little in front of me then

This one is my daughter's first, but my son has 5 children, including 2 adopted Ugandan orphans

[Monika]

Back to the original topic - R***l W*****g: I succumbed and watched the highlights on iPlayer last evening and the three things which struck me most, other than THE dress and the amazing precision timing and general organisation, were
(1) the height of Victoria Beckham's heels
(2) the colour clash of David Cameron's tie and his wife's dress and
(3) the poor little three-year old bridesmaid who was obviously quite overawed by it all.

What did you think of it all?

[oldherbaceous]

I have managed to miss it all so far, apart from a couple of bits on the radio.

[Geoff]

I liked the decoration of the Abbey with the trees in pots, it was a close run thing as to whether VB or the two young Princesses were the ugliest (the Telegraph had some good fashion comments : "thrifty Princess Royal appeared to have recycled a pair of curtains"; the Beckhams "...made them resemble a pole dancer and her, admittedly, astoundingly handsome escort"; "Alas, the Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie let the side down with a panto ugly sisters routine"), better not type my thoughts on the chief bridesmaid (too old to have them, but again the Telegraph has it about right describing the dress "it was astoundingly elegant by bridesmaidenly standards and weakened the knees of chaps across the nation") but I agree the bits I watched it seemed a slick and elegant masterpiece of organisation and didn't generate my usual anti-royalist rants.
My that's an awful sentence I've concocted but never mind.

[John]

Who were the two nuns at the service? Nothing on Google though plenty of wacky suggestions - MI5 girls maybe?

John