Happy Solstice
Is that the correct salutation for today? Now is the Solstice today or tomorrow... my calendar says today but people are gathering for tomorrow morning at Stonehenge... Whatever the point of this post is actually that we are half way through 2012!!! Holy Mother - where's the time going. 2012 - Jubilee year - yep we've done that, flotillas, concerts, services, flypasts etc. Happy 60th your majesty. Time was I'd have been spitting about the need to remove the monarchy and let true democracy reign but I've mellowed with age also I like that the Prime Minister still answers to the Queen, I know it is all a bit phoney in that if the monarch did refuse to sign a new statute we'd be in a right constitutional conundrum but I like it that the senior elected official in this country is put in their place a bit. I like the continuity of the monarchy and that we don't have to endure presidential elections with a collection of candidates who no doubt would...