Yeah I would have loved the Spitfire, Max.
And after the long performance last night, we came home & caught just a bit on the news: they do know how to do the pageantry thing, no doubt.
When so many commentators tell you it's so wonderful you almost begin to believe it....
Doug
On 2011-04-29, at 2:23 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> The royal wedding in pictures; Plus:
> Was Kate's dress a winner?
> That's the first email I found
> checking my inbox before bed.
>
> Moi, I'd dozed off watching 'live'
> the late evening telecast of
> the poshest pageantry
> in living memory.
>
> Simon Schama 'historian'
> was one commentator,
> sitting it seemed in a glass box
> to one side of Buck Palace.
>
> Soft spot for Schama I have.
> Hard put he was to shift us
> from the engulfing shallowness,
> and the vox pop interludes...
>
> Oh the choirboys were scrumptious,
> wouldn't have missed them,
> and not all pallid anglos
> lifting up their hearts in song -
>
> (Blake over by St Paul's.
> Parry's Blake's Jerusalem,
> now, wasn't that spine-tingling?
> Even if its radicalism
>
> is done over by the establishment.
> Hovering over Hyde Park at times
> we saw the hoi polloi
> whistling as their 'commoner'
>
> Kate became Princess Catherine,
> pizza bars and fun fair beckoning.
> Then the cam showed us inside
> an old Lancaster cockpit!
>
> And a Spitfire flew beside it
> above the millions and the royals.
> Patrick, Doug, you surely
> would have thrilled to that.
> But the horses were what mostly
> I wanted to see, bestrode
> by antique uniforms.
> Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> I guess you have to be there
>>
>> (me: I was at a poetry reading last night& went to bed...)
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-04-29, at 2:47 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>>> For me, Patrick, it's doubly worse: he's an Aston Villa supporter (growl)
>>>
>>> (grew up next door to St Andrews and the Stan Cullis Blues me)
>>>
>>> :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 April 2011 09:25, Patrick McManus
>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> BBC NEWS HEADLINES
>>>> (found poem 29 -4-11)
>>>>
>>>> The royal wedding
>>>> Guests arrive at Westminster Abbey
>>>> Prince William meets well-wishers
>>>> The route from Westminster Abbey
>>>> Preparations for the royal wedding
>>>> Cheers for Kate at Abbey rehearsal
>>>> Middletons arrive at London hotel
>>>> 'Sick to death of royal wedding!'
>>>> 'Royals are benefit scroungers'
>>>>
>>>> pmcmanus
>>>> q822
>>>>
>>>> all the whimpering
>>>> all the simpering
>>>> it must be a
>>>> royal wedding
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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Looking for redemption in the underground.
Lord, won't you help a late night pilgrim
When the morning comes around.
Tift Merritt
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