Diamond Jubilee Sunday

In the warm and totally sober....

Olympic stadium Greenwich

We visited London on the day before the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant. The atmosphere was great and people were already setting up camp along the embankment. We decicied to visit the newly restored Cutty Sark. Arrived at 13:55 - it closed at 14:00! Plan B:- took a riverbus along the Thames to Westminster and then walked back along the river looking at all the boats preparing for the Pageant.





I have no idea who these people are, but they insisted that I take a photo.

Mad Northerners along the Embankment

Alleyway in Horndon

And why would I object to exploring Horndon on the Hill's alleyways, stinging nettles and all, bare-legged (as opposed to leg-less) with my short shorts on?

Thames barge in textiles

This was my fave at the Textiles on the Hill exhibition

Belated blog

RIP Donna Summer

Definitely one to download onto my iPod

Birthday girl

The birthday girl was given a Kindle today:) I've spent hours looking up all the books I want to read, but I've been good and only downloaded one - The Secret Mandarin by Sara Sheridan.

Meanwhile, whislt scrolling down the list of available Kindle books I noticed Jonathan Livingston Seagull by American writer Richard Bach - a book that I think I was given when I left senior school(?).

The lyrics for Sting's song may have been influenced by Richard Bach. He said:-

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were".

Bach also said "Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends"