Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Be prepared to Repel (Message) Boarders!! I do hope you have a really lovely time and that you will, in due course, report back on the day's events

The "Don't jubilieve it!!" gang were a rather bedraggled little group kettled quite a way from the river behind Boris's glass pod. Their leaflets were disintegrating and no one was interested.

Andrew Marr(ed) described the scene as "looking rather like a Monet" - to which the organiser of the "flotilla", (for such it is - not a convoy), as Whistleresque, or some such adjective. Turner would be more like it - a Turner run out of paint, resorting to H and HB pencils.

Mr Marr was at the same event as I was. He seemed to spend all the time I saw him on his iPad and no one was talking to him.

I agree with you, S_A - Turner sketches was about right. The heavens opened at almost the exact moment as Tower Bridge. It was cold enough to see your breath...

It was impressive and surreal. The best bit was right at the end, most people had left - and along came the LPO (not LSO, as BBC News would have us believe - the BBC seem to have blotted their copybook with lots of naff coverage).

The orchestra's boat came to a halt and turned around just in front of us, opposite when HM was spectating, and the plucky damp choir gave us hardy ones still on deck a chance to sing along to the Last Night of the Proms classics, a final God Save the Queen, fireworks off the bridge and home for tea.

If anyone says the phrase "it hasn't dampened people's spirits" again to me in the near to medium future, they'll get crowned by me!

[marthe]

Strange weather here today. We started with bright sun and ended with dark and stormy squalls, thunder, lightening, and a chill wind. I hope all went well with the Jubilee celebrations. I remember watching fireworks over the River Trent in Nottingham for the Silver Jubilee.

[antongould]

Yes it has been decidedly cold and murky here today Marthe!
I await your entry in the TV detectives "fray"!

[marthe]

Anton, I've just read through the TV detectives posts. We've just revived the early Morse (John Thaw) in our household so this could be interesting. I'll have to compose my thoughts.

[antongould]

I look forward to your thoughts.......

[BBMmk2]

Typical weather on thisspecialweekend! It rained onHMs Coronation Day to! Looks like the rest of the weekgoing to be the same!

[Serial_Apologist]

On waking up this morning, and wondering why the flat seemed so chilly, I discovered that I had left one of the north-facing windows slightly open from last week's hot weather!

Brrr! <shiver emoticon>

[amateur51]

I have dozens of them, and my goodness, they never stop chirruping and quarrelling and bouncing around from about 4am in the morning.

These are proper Cockney sparrers, Anna, living down the side of a busy railway line, dodging shot'n'shell (as it were), rare as hen's teeth these days, not rural sparrows with acres of lush greenery bedecked with seeds to graze from and ... hedges

[marthe]

More cold, rainy weather today and for the rest of the week it seems. There's a stationary low front churning away off the coast of Maine that's the cause of this bit of unpleasantness.

[Serial_Apologist]

More cold, rainy weather today and for the rest of the week it seems. There's a stationary low front churning away off the coast of Maine that's the cause of this bit of unpleasantness.

More or less identical with the meteorological jubbly over on this side yesterday, marthe!

[Nick Armstrong]

I remember watching fireworks over the River Trent in Nottingham for the Silver Jubilee.

Amazing, Marthe! I was studying for my 'O levels' in Nottingham in 1977, and watched the fireworks from my bedroom window which looked north towards Trent Bridge! Funny we were so... adjacent so long ago!

[marthe]

Caliban, how extraordinary! I expect we had just come from the Trip to Jerusalem to watch the fireworks. My husband-to-be (September of that year) and I were working for an archaeological organisation that was based in Brewhouse Yard on Castle Blvd. We were living out at Holme Pierrepont at the time while he and the team were working on an excavation of farmland that was endangered by gravel quarrying. I was working at at the university on a pottery report for an excavation at another location in the Trent Valley area. I have such fond memories of that time.

[Nick Armstrong]

Caliban, how extraordinary! I expect we had just come from the Trip to Jerusalem to watch the fireworks

A magical hostelry!

Ah... gravel... Those Hoveringham lorries....

[antongould]

It's like Harold Larwood and Willemina Voce!!

[BBMmk2]

A better day yesterday. We going to get morerain and for the rest of the week to!