Jabba's Jubilee
Gah, so my ankle was bad again today, making walking quite tricky. I missed the Silver Jubilee festivities in 1977 as I had glandular fever, and have generally passed on these, choosing to sit about like Jabba the Hut with a sore ankle, experiencing everything vicariously via TV coverage of the Jubilee concert outside Buckingham Palace, being fed by the ever patient Lorraine.
The Jubilee dominated the TV tonight. London looked nice, and being charitable about it, it was a good enough knees up. The Queen arrived late, and sensibly brought ear plugs to block out the pop longueurs. These events are always good value, and Grace Jones hula hooping throughout her song was rather fun, although she and Stevie Wonder both seemed to think it was the Queen's birthday. Stevie Wonder even singing his 'Happy Birthday to ya' song.
Couldn't help thinking that Queenie would have rather been indoors with a nice cup of tea, followed by few gins than listening to the likes of Cliff Richard, Elton John (sounding like Vic Reeves' club singer) Paul McCartney (surely someone with his songbook could have dug out something better than Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da).
Found myself enjoying twitter today, from the comfort of my sofa, so was at least stream irreverent comments and share them with Lorraine and Betty, which makes almost anything watchable.
Below Grace Jones, hoola-hooping for reasons best known to herself. Fair play though. Jabba the Hut...
The Jubilee dominated the TV tonight. London looked nice, and being charitable about it, it was a good enough knees up. The Queen arrived late, and sensibly brought ear plugs to block out the pop longueurs. These events are always good value, and Grace Jones hula hooping throughout her song was rather fun, although she and Stevie Wonder both seemed to think it was the Queen's birthday. Stevie Wonder even singing his 'Happy Birthday to ya' song.
Couldn't help thinking that Queenie would have rather been indoors with a nice cup of tea, followed by few gins than listening to the likes of Cliff Richard, Elton John (sounding like Vic Reeves' club singer) Paul McCartney (surely someone with his songbook could have dug out something better than Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da).
Found myself enjoying twitter today, from the comfort of my sofa, so was at least stream irreverent comments and share them with Lorraine and Betty, which makes almost anything watchable.
Below Grace Jones, hoola-hooping for reasons best known to herself. Fair play though. Jabba the Hut...
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