Queens visit

[Louis the fly]

I have been having trouble sleeping recently, last night while tossing and turning this long forgotten memory popped into my head.

I was a young boy in infant school when it was announced the Queen would be making an official visit to Liverpool. For weeks we were making paper flags with red crosses painted on them and bunting for the great day. We were getting more and more exited but didn't know why, it felt as though Christmas was coming again. We were given a letter for our parents asking them to dress us in our best clothes and to get us to school early, my mother dressed me in a pair of grey shorts with a white shirt and blue dickie bow, she wet my hair and combed in a neat parting. At school we collected our flags and the teachers marched us to the main road, after a few hours of waiting we were getting very fed up so started play fighting and rolling around in the gutter, our best clothes didn't look so good now.Everyone needed a pee but there was nowhere to go, wet patches appeared on trousers, not a good example for teachers to set. Finely in the the distance we heard a cry. " The Queen is coming ". A fleet of black cars raced past before we could even lift our flags. The rumours of hub caps going missing must have reached the Royal household. We were marched back to school to write a composition on our wonderful day.

[j.sabourn]

Louis maybe someone in the black cars also wanted to go to the toilet. JWS

[Keith Tindell]

That has sprung the almost exact memory from 1953, we all had to line up at the entrance to the school, all excited, she passed by in a big car, saw a white glove give one wave, and it was all over, but my main part of the memory was we dodged a maths lesson, yipee, kt

[j.sabourn]

1953 Keith I was giving dodgy French letters to the senior apprentice. You cant trust them French to play fair. Cheers JWS

[Richard Quartermaine]

Obviously as a man of letters and fair play, JWS, you will be cognisant with 'capèau Anglais'.
Richard

[j.sabourn]

That was only in retaliation to our soixant Neuf. Richard. They were two centuries too late. Cheers .jws

[j.sabourn]

Richard you are probably also aware of the command, Vernon should know this one being an ex Legionaire, of A Beauceant, pronounced Ah Bohsahn, however after 23rd. June this may be to muster round the tri- colour or maybe the swaztica as the poor old Union Jack may be redundant by decree of others. Or it could be even worse with a black flag with little squiggly lines on it. Cheers JWS

[Louis the fly]

Blair is rehearsing his defence even before the guilty verdict is announced, should come sometime after the EU vote, it will make interesting reading.

[cappy]

Blair is rehearsing his defence even before the guilty verdict is announced, should come sometime after the EU vote, it will make interesting reading.

##remember louis you are dealing with teflon tony ......nothing sticks .....can anyone actually think he will be punished ....like how many years even if we brexit will any change come ......not in our lifetime ....the pollies never show a true face ...in any country in the world......cappy

[John Arton]

Strangely I have actually met the Queen on two occasions though I doubt she can remember me.
First time was when I was at school and we were taken to Barrow in Furness where she was launching Britains first nuclear submarine and I along with a crowd of school mates were lining the walk around that she and the duke were having after the launch. I was in the front row and she stopped and talked to our teacher in charge of us and I was standing about 3 places further on.
2nd time was at a carriage driving event at Lowther Castle near Penrith and my mate (who was knocking off one of the female contestants in the single horse and trap section) got us into the Grooms Ball held at the end of the event. I was quietly necking the free G and T's when H.M. and the Duke came into the room and started circulating. The pair of them passed right in front of me and my pal but for some strange reason reason never stopped for a chat!!! which rather miffed me as I fancied comparing seafaring stories with Phil, him having been in the R.N. and me being in the M.N.
but hey ho at least the booze was free and there was a surfeit of female stable hands on the prowl.
rgds
JA