Hello, I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday. I had a wonderful day out with Kitty's class at Felixstowe beach, looking at houses, shops and hotels in a seaside town and of course some time to build sandcastles and a picnic on the beach. Felixstowe is also a very busy port, so the horizon out to sea often features large container ships as they head into port. There are also plenty of sailing boats, little fishing boats, canoes and more out on the sea, especially at weekends when the sun is shining. But it sounds like the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will more than rival our skyline here on the Suffolk coast!
With over one thousand boats joining this amazing pagent on Sunday 3 June, the River Thames will be brought to life with this huge flotilla. Starting up river at Battersea Bridge at 2pm the flotilla will travel along the river to Tower Bridge, however the boats will be seen further along the river as they muster in Hammersmith and disperse to West India Docks. Rowing boats, working boats, steam boats, pleasure vessels, Police, armed forces and Fire crews will all be sailing along the River Thames adorned with union jacks and streamers in celebration of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. There will also be passenger boats carrying up to 30,000 flag waving well wishers. As if this wasn't enough there will be music barges and boats spouting geysers.
I am sure you will agree that the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant sounds like a wonderful spectacle of quintessential British celebration. Sadly I will not be one of the crowd lining the riverbank, but I think it will all be broadcast on that good ol' British institution, the BBC. Please do share photos if you do attend, it would be lovely to share them here on the blog.
Have a great day everybody and remember that sunscreen if you're lucky to be out in the sun today.
Zoe
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