Reading and writing with a cat is not easy – this is the Heidi Handicap:
She likes to sit on my lap when I’m using the computer, or even in front of the keyboard, regardless of whatever else is there – in this case the book I was checking whilst writing a post.
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Today’s Snapshot is looking back to when I was 16 and my friend and I had just been presented with the Queen’s Guide Award. For some reason, which I can’t remember we were photographed with the Girl Guides District Commissioner and the Town Mayor as though we were giving them a cup of tea and biscuits!
I’m the Girl Guide on the right, next to the District Commissioner.
Last week we got an extending ladder and D temporarily opened part of it in the hall. Heidi loves climbing and I had to take these photos of her as she went up it. They’re a bit blurred as I had to be quick because when she saw me she jumped down.
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I didn’t do a Saturday Snapshots post last weekend because I was away from home for most of it, celebrating D’s birthday. We had a lovely time with the family. I made a cake and the grandchildren all had a hand in decorating it – E did the writing and the hearts! M & G added the smiley faces and other decorations.
We put a few candles on it – no room for all of them!!!
M gave him a big hug and G gave him the required number (66!) of thumps – pats – on his back.
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Last Saturday I posted photos of the coronation procession I took part in in 1953. Irene asked if I would post photos of what was happening in my area for the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Well, it was relatively quiet where we live, nearly 350 miles from London. We watched some of the River Pageant on television:
I liked the aerial views and the close-up shots of the Queen and Royal Family, but it was different from actually being there:
The next day our son and his family came to stay and we had a barbecue on the decking, decorated with our daughter-in-law’s hand knitted bunting:
Food was eaten, drinks were drunk and games were played:
Then in the evening we went to one of the 4,200 Diamond Jubilee Beacons that were lit all over the UK and the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Commonwealth and Overseas UK Territories. Ours was at Watchlaw Farm in Northumberland, where there are magnificent views of the Cheviots and the Tweed Valley:
The beacon was lit just after 10pm:
and soon it was blazing away:
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D took a video which is on YouTube – watch out for the rocket towards the end of the video!
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This year it’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. She acceded to the throne in February 1952 and was crowned on 2 June 1953. There are many celebrations around the UK this weekend celebrating her 60 year reign, which got me thinking about celebrations in the past.
I remember the Coronation. We didn’t have a television but my parents had friends who did and we all gathered in front of their tiny TV and watched the ceremony in grainy black and white. I was at primary school and we were all given a Coronation Mug (I have no idea what happened to it!) and drew pictures of the Queen and the Coronation Carriage. I made a scapbook cutting out newspaper and magazine photos.
My photos today are of a procession around the village where I lived to celebrate the Coronation, waving Union Flags.
In the photo above I’m in the middle at the front, the one with dark hair and a white floppy bow in my hair, behind the girl with short brown hair and next to my friends who lived in the same road as me.
In this photo I’m near the back on the right of the procession just behind a bigger girl. The man on the extreme right of the photo in the mac, with a cigarette in his mouth (!) is my dad, just stepping into the road.
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