The Investiture Yesterday
Posted: Monday, 03 April 2006 |
What a day and what a lovely couple the Earl and Countess of Condom - no airs or graces. They arrived with their lady in waiting Mistress Bab's from Acorn Antiques not looking a day older than she did when she graced the TV screens.
And hats - you've never seen hats like them. Back of Beyond wore a guga skin pillbox hat with a veil of thin wire netting topped off with a peacock feather, Granny E had a hat made specially in the shape of garden shed and Annie B had her hair thatched and weighted down with pebbles gathered from the Galson foreshore - a lovely touch. We moved the ceremony from the Cremola Suite at the Cross Inn to the Morven Gallery at Borve so as not to clash with churchgoers. The gallery was a wonderful place to receive our honours. The Queen as if to top the day sent a special medal for Donald for services to The Benefits Agency and a long service medal for his unswerving loyalty to the Inacpacity Benefit. The citation read 'When it might have been easier to accept Job Seekers Allowance Donald was unflinching...'
Says it all doesn't it?
We couldn't stay long as it was off to meet and greet the Americans and Canadians more of which later...
And hats - you've never seen hats like them. Back of Beyond wore a guga skin pillbox hat with a veil of thin wire netting topped off with a peacock feather, Granny E had a hat made specially in the shape of garden shed and Annie B had her hair thatched and weighted down with pebbles gathered from the Galson foreshore - a lovely touch. We moved the ceremony from the Cremola Suite at the Cross Inn to the Morven Gallery at Borve so as not to clash with churchgoers. The gallery was a wonderful place to receive our honours. The Queen as if to top the day sent a special medal for Donald for services to The Benefits Agency and a long service medal for his unswerving loyalty to the Inacpacity Benefit. The citation read 'When it might have been easier to accept Job Seekers Allowance Donald was unflinching...'
Says it all doesn't it?
We couldn't stay long as it was off to meet and greet the Americans and Canadians more of which later...
Posted on calumannabel at 09:57