Happy Jubilee!

Thanks to Lizzie for a four day weekend and lots of opportunities to party.

In no particular order...

A Victoria sponge was baked:

I stood on my balcony on Saturday and watched a mini-flotilla of blow up rafts team up with the river boats down Regent's Canal. Of note was this slightly dramatic slow motion crash, due to an inability of one of the river boats to make a timely three point turn:

Saturday night, I saw Coldplay at the Emirates Stadium. Ah-mazing!!

Everyone was given a wristband that lit up and flickered to the music.

On Sunday we queued with thousands of other flag bearing Brits to watch the flotilla:

We had a good view of the screen, and if we jumped really high, we could see the tops of some of the boats.

Get excited for mini bunting.

Actually, we watched it exactly the same way my Aussie friends did, on a big screen. But we did it in true English fashion, standing for three hours in the drizzle. My stiff upper lip got a workout.

On Monday I watched everything from the comfort of my lounge, before heading off to watch the concert from the comfort of someone else's lounge.

But the best bit, Friday night, we celebrated in true Royal style, accompanied by Kanye West:

A great weekend indeed!