Sunday 3rd June Jubilee
pageant on Thames.
I went out about 9.30 am to see
how crowd was on the riverbank and then
hurried back to get Lyndsay as crowds starting to pour out of Waterloo
station in their hundreds. Down in
chosen place by about 10.30 am found a place where we were 2 rows from edge of
the river bank. We were just by an area where people from a charity organisation were going to be
let through to a small pier. Security wasn’t well planned and I made some
suggestions to the guard about setting up barrier differently so that 20 rows
of people were not disrupted everytime they opened the barrier. Lyndsay spent
quite a bit of time talking to and
supporting to the woman who was
organising this area who was the CEO of the charity. Just as pageant about to
start and we had been standing there for nearly 4 hours she came and escorted
Lyndsay and I plus another woman we had been talking to as we all waited,
through another gate, put wrist bands on and led us to a clear area in front of
a building and said thanks for supporting me –there we were in ringside seats (actually
no seats) plus had an area to shelter
from the rain plus could see one of the
big screens easily. Then we got talking to a bloke in a flash suit standing
next to us who turned out to be a kiwi now living in London, previously a
professional rugby player, then his wife arrived who had been born in Devonport
cos her father had been in the Navy, then her auntie arrived who turned out to
be an ex Labour MP who knew heaps of people we did so a cheerful time was spent
by all. The crowd seemed to be very good
humoured even tho many had been standing in the rain for up to 6 hours by the
time it finished. The chmber singers on the top of the boat with the orchestra
were amazing and just sang on despite being drenched. Back to UJC for hot
shower, dinner was packet of crisps and ½ bottle of red wine ! 
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