Jubilee Tuesday

It's now Tuesday and we're still celebrating.  Watching the festivities today, I have honestly never felt more patriotic.  The Queen actually looked happy and moved, this is a woman who rarely shows emotion.  Sadly, the Duke of Edinburgh was taken to hospital yesterday with an infection and the Queen does look a little forlorn without her consort by her side, she is trooping ahead though, nothing can dampen these celebrations, not even the dreadful weather.

There are a reported 1.5 million people in the Mall, it is really quite spectacular.

Last night was a special Jubilee Concert but I recorded most of it as it was on so late.  When I went out for coffee this morning, I kept hearing people mention Gary Barlow, this is of course the great Gary Barlow of Take That fame and a local lad, well, he organised the whole thing, plus, working with Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, wrote, recorded and arranged a song to mark the Jubilee with artists from the UK and many other Commonwealth countries.  Everyone was impressed by the whole extravaganza, and after watching today, so was I, it was really well done.  Fireworks at the end were suitably triumphant, better than anything we've ever done for New Year, put it that way... thank goodness.

This is the performance on concert night of the Jubilee Song; http://youtu.be/e7R9hv4NUf4  with any luck, it will eek into your brain and drive you nuts for the rest of the week, as it has done mine.

This is the video which kind of tells the story; http://youtu.be/0ah_Yf7ey1Q  It's actually quite uplifting and the little girl who starts and ends the song is called Lydia.

The group Madness performed from on top of the Palace , flanked by some incredible visuals projected onto the front of the Palace.  Madness always reminds me of dodgy school discos and dancing in my prized ra-ra skirt, I thought I was the bees knees.  I distinctly remember going to one school disco in said skirt, with my friend Anita, we met when I was four and she was five and she is my oldest friend.  The ra-ra is dead and buried but Madness seem to have stood the test of time.

Thought you'd like to take a look at this... http://youtu.be/6BEW2LuX3-M  Love it near the end when Suggs says "Who could have Adam and Eve'd it?"

Can you imagine this Ra Ra in black and white and marvel at how great I looked?