Now there's a word you don't get to use too often ...

Relevance is up to you to decide. Accuracy is unquestionable though

I suppose I'm prejudiced, being a Londoner and the Queen having been a part of my life for a very large part of her's.
I represented my school at the Coronation in Westminster Abbey in 1953 - the only time I've ever represented anything anywhere.
I was also in London during World War 2 when, to a large extent, it was the Royal Family who kept our spirits up by staying in London for most of that horrible time. I was a very little girl, but I remember it well. Who wouldn't remember having houses around them flattened.
I think the younger members of the Royal Family are a pretty shabby bunch, but the Queen herself has always behaved impeccably and well deserves her celebration.
The weather doesn't look too hopeful for the weekend, but I hope it will only be the weather spoiling the celebrations, and not some anti-royalist bombers.

Diamond Jubilee river pageant's rousing musical finale
Soaked, freezing and yelling Rule Britannia. All in a good cause.

Well I loved it, and not ashamed to admit it.
I have a complaint though, I was at school at the time of the silver jubilee and we were told we would all get a commemorative mug. Still waiting.

Do you recognise it amongst these...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_tr...8.l2552&_pgn=2

If so......... they're probably waiting for you to claim it.

The Queen has a spy satellite with laser beams on it just for people like you!

I was wrong - it was played!

I like it too. Just not 24/7. A little goes a long way.

The river pageant was quite a bit too long I thought.
Or was it because I got soaked hanging about on someone's roof by Tower Bridge in the pouring rain?

The best moment of the TV coverage was the guy saying "You've really got to be here to appreciate the atmosphere"

Nice work, TV guy. Shall we all just check out our sets when we can't attend in person??

More like "soak up" the atmosphere...

There was also another comment about not getting another chance to see this again in your lifetime.

Rather unsporting not to let the Deutsche Marine take part in festivities and allow them to send a U-Boot up the Thames. Forgive and forget and all that ....

Hmmmmmm. Sarajevo.............June.........1914

They could have invited their kick-ass German cousin.

Ernst August von Hannover
German prince sentenced

Didn't quite get this reference before. I have the super power of being able to forget easily. But it eventually clicked.

I flew ZHR-BOS on Swiss right before the 100th anniversary. As we are getting closer to Boston, I noticed on that tracking map thing "Titanic, 1912" marking the location where it sank. And not only that, a few cm to the left there was another listing "such & such, 1967". They had plotted out a dozen or so ship wrecks on the GPS map.

First, that's not always there right? I mean, it's not something I just never noticed? Second, who would think that's a good idea? Third does anyone else think that's creepy?

Who knows, it could have even been skippered by one of her relations!

Or they were there and not surfacing because UK defense cuts with the Nimrod MRA4 program meant that there was no equipment left to monitor sub activity.

What next? "You are now flying over the site of the horrific plane crash into Mt Erebus, in 1979, killing (inject slightly geeful note) all 257 on board! Next up, keep your eye on the port side of the plane for the Star Dust airliner disaster -- that one only wiped out 11 people."

That's exactly what I was thinking! It's creepy. They didn't note plane crashes, only ship wrecks. But I do wonder if this was a one off type thing or do they do this alot?