.....Jubilee pageant 2012.....

......Well.... Mr P and I got up ridiculously early this morning to catch the eight thirty train to London to go and wave a flag or two at her royal Queenieness.......i went with the full intention if taking some wonderful pictures of the boats as they came up the Thames in a fanfare of trumpets and such like to load onto my blog for you all to see........when we got there, London was probably the busiest i have ever seen it, a humongous enormous amount of people all heading along the mall past Buckingham palace to get there place by the Thames, to wave and cheer and  hopefully grab a little glimpse of the little old lady..........

..........so here are some wonderful photos of this glorious day.......................................

.....'YEP',,,,,,this was as close as it was feasibly possible to get anywhere near to seeing a boat,,,Mr P and I walked about two miles along the Thames to try and see something, even if it was just a mast......but all the way for as far as you could see where people,, hundreds and hundreds of people,,, and i have to say.........it was HELL......Mr P and I are not very tall people, so this off course didn't help ,,,,,it was very wet and very cold,,,, by about three thirty i had had enough of being wet and cold and i wanted to go home....i hadn't seen a thing and i had had my bag searched by security guards 'six times' !!, when it got to the sixth guard who stopped me and asked me what i had in bag i told him.......

.....'' a bag of twiglets,  an umbrella,  my purse,  a single sock ! ( don't ask ), an apple core,  a plastic doll with one leg ( my granddaughters ), and about a thousand receipts''....he didn't bother looking !!

......I think when Mr P saw my sad  tired face he agreed it was probably time to call it a day.................so off we went again, all along the river to get back to the station,,,, there where again hundreds and hundreds of people all going backwards and forwards trying to find places to stop and look at the large cinema screens that were erected all along the river...the problem here was that you had to really push and shove your way through to escape the crowds......i was OK until we reached a crowd that was so deep in people that there faces were nearly touching mine, and then at one point i was completely wedged in and i could feel myself about to have a panic attack as i couldn't get out............i have to tell you my friends i was quite scared, and i hung onto Ps bag as he pulled me through.......when we did finally get through the crowd i burst into tears............it isn't always nice to be short when your stuck in an unmoving crowd....................

..........Anyway........we got back home ' eventually', and after a glass of wine and a hot bath i feel a whole lot better,  so,, i am sorry for the lack of jubilee jubilation none of it went according to plan,, we probably should of just stayed in and watched it on the telly........never mind......

........i think i may go to bed now, i am completely done in.....

...Pixie...

x

......plus....

.....Thank you to all the lovely ladies who left very nice comments regarding my footwear in the previous post.......how nice you all are.........so in answer to your question,  they are made by 'Nature Sko',, and i bought them from the 'Natural shoe shop', in 'Covent garden', though they do have very lovely website.......all my boots and shoes are 'Nature sko' as they are quite wide fitting,,,, so they are good for Hobbit feet like mine  x x