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I confess I am going to the village "street" party - more a farmyard party at the farm of the village's 100 year old so we can retreat into a farm building if required. Don't know how many will be there as many are away from the 20 or so properties nearby.

Oh John why did you have to spoil it with a PS?

Have a good time.

Beryl.

There was a hog roast in our village this afternoon/evening - shame about the weather, it's been raining all day. We are not very sociable people, so have been sitting and reading the Sunday papers at home. We we do have a Hamburg yachtsman's windsock in the garden in red, white and blue!

Wasn't the pageant just fabulous though? The organisation was just amazing. I don't care what you grumps think but I am very proud to be British.

Beryl.

I agree. It really was spectacular and a wonderful tribute to HM. Thought that some of the TV coverage was not quite up to the mark but from a technical point of view I suppose that it was a very difficult event to cover.
I was so glad that the pop/celebrity elements were kept well away from it all.
Celebrations going well here despite some awful weather.

John

It was good for me too....

Well yesterday there was a celebration in the village that should have been held in a residents really beautiful garden but it was tipping it down so the inclement weather programme was put into action.
An empty grain store on a dairy farm became the venue with 280 milkers very close-by. Barbeque of Burger, Sausage, chicken thigh (I like a bit of thigh) and later on the products of a pig roast. The pig took forever to roast because of the breeze that was prevailing taking the heat away so they say. I think they just started roasting too late. Two bl---y great slugs in the salad so that rather put me off it all.
Good thing when I got home I found a lottery ticket for 17th of January that had not been checked (I was a little unwell earlier in the year and things slipped a bit) and I had a really good surprise. Yes a very handsome win!
I watched All the Queens Horses on ITV and to me that was the highlight of the day. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Vera came up and I had nodded off in seconds!
Not a bad day all-in-all but I have had more enjoyable days.
JB.

I enjoyed the Thames show but agree, weather gremlins aside, the coverage was not as slick as usual and the choice of interludes was a bit odd. I would have preferred sections from the musical barges to the strange collection of experts, artists and bits from the park. Enjoyed the soggy version of Last Night of the Proms at the end with out of sync royals bobbing to sea shanties. Didn't watch the horses.

Well I always was one for fireworks - more dubious production values, who would ever put titles over a firework display?
For anybody who knows the Northern wilderness; we went up to a highish point near us called The Cross of Greet and saw beacons all the way round from Pendle Hill, Ingleborough, high above Kendal, various mountains in the Lake District (including Scafell I think, we took a telescope) and right out onto the Western edge of the Lake District probably Black Combe or Ulpha Fell as well as many lower down and various firework displays. With a nice sunset as well it was quite a spectacle. Not really good for photography but here is a firework going up from near Ingleton with Whernside and Ingleborough to the right, Monika should appreciate it anyway.

Last Jubilee post?

Well we had our low key village party in a lambing shed. Plenty of food and drink.

But did anyone else have a hurdy gurdy as musical entertainment?

Loved the photos, Geoff, including the one with familiar hills! I suppose we should have done the same (climbed up high, I mean) we did not even realise that beacons were to be lit .....

I do remember the beacons at the Silver Jubilee where, from our then vantage point on Baildon Moor, we could see other beacons miles away. Quite an awesome experience. "Baildon", by the way, means "fire hill", I understand, so presumably it was used to communicate by fires in ages past.