HAPPY CORONATION DAY!

Hello Lovely Blippers,

We were hoping that the HCBs would be taking us up to London to be part of the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, but as the weather forecast was not good for today, they decided against it.  However, we have our flags all ready to wave and will be watching the service on the television with Mr and Mrs HCB and then this afternoon, we will be having Afternoon Tea, with them and their lovely neighbours, Lynn and Mike.

You already know, if you read Mrs HCB’s Blip yesterday that Lynn is a Pistoriophile - and we can already smell lovely aromas coming across the carport from her kitchen, so we are confident that we will have a wonderful tea with them.  They have all said it will be like old times during the lockdowns, when they used to have Afternoon Tea together and played lots of silly games - and who knows, there may be a silly game or two this afternoon.

So really, this is not a Silly Saturday but a celebration of the Coronation of our new King and Queen - and we think that dear Admirer would have enjoyed seeing us all waving our flags.  We hope you notice that we have all got them the right way up - now if we hadn’t made sure about that, it would have been silly.

We hope you all have a wonderful time, wherever you are and whatever you are doing today - it is pouring with rain here at the moment, but we hope that it soon eases off so that those who are having street parties can enjoy themselves.  Mind you, we think that shops selling umbrellas in London may have a good day!  

Take care and we send our best wishes to the new King and his Queen - we shall enjoy watching all the pomp and ceremony a bit later.

Love to you all from
The Silly Saturday Gang xxx

CORONATION : noun
From the Latin word for crown, “corona”. Similar words include; crowning, enthronement, enthroning, accession to the throne, investiture, anointing, inauguration.

Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor will be crowned King Charles III in a coronation ceremony dating back, if not to time immemorial, at least ten centuries.

Just to be absolutely clear, Charles is of course already King, for the Crown knows no break. When one monarch dies there is no gap in the continuity of the monarchy, no hiatus, no interregnum.