Well here we go again, it only seems like yesterday that I missed the Silver Jubilee back in 1977. Maybe history does repeat its self after all!
I remember it so well, even at the tender age of eleven, I couldn't get my head around the fuss of someone who lived in huge houses and waved insistently.
Do you want to go to the Jubilee street party I was asked, err let me think, "No!" was my answer. I wasn't the only one to come to this conclusion, although many more did submit to the temptation of jelly, custard and cake. It was sort of strange looking through the window at all the tables and chairs surrounded by the myriad of small bodies busily guzzling the mountains of food. I wondered if they were having as much fun as it appeared from my side of the glass, if my experience of other party's were anything to go by then it wasn't all that fantastic. Yes, the idea of having a party seems to be more exciting than the party its self. Yet, here I was torturing myself looking at the all these kids gorging themselves on the intoxicating sweetness, the likes of which make me feel sick simply thinking about it ... "cream cake or bourbon biscuit anyone?"
What has any of this got to do with having a Queen on the throne for so long? It seemed to me that it was just an excuse to have a knees up, in fact as I got older, the concept of using any old ruse to have a celebration became even more apparent, yeah alcohol will do that... LOL
So here I am once again 35 years on, but this time I'm not looking through my bedroom window at the revelry, I'm seeing it through the window on my computer. It's not across the street this time either, but almost 4000 miles away a quarter of the way around the globe.
My conclusion seems to be that technology changes but people don't. The windows that we gaze through have changed from the peppered nose printed variety to the world wide web window on the global village.... but the party still goes on.
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