I was unable to watch the Jubiler Pageant live on television as I was attending a Jubilee Afternoon Tea with my neighbours as our community celebration. I must try and catch up with the events on The Mall on iplayer. When I got back home I did watch the appearance by The Queen on the balcony of the Palace together with her immediate heirs and their wives - plenty of symbolism in that and without the rather gloomy impression of a somewhat similar group looking out from the balcony under a lowering sky about to rain at the conclusion of the Diamond Jubilee a decade ago.
Our local tea party had a very positive feel to it and it was a good opportunity to get to know neighbours better and share common interests and enthusiasms. Very much what the national organisers wanted to see I think, and, from the news reports, that appears to have been achieved. For an instance of that look at John Ramsden’s comment which he made to my first post about the celebrations.
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