It's coming up to the weekend of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in the Uk and I just wondered if anyone had anything planned?

I myself will not be up to much over the weekend itself, but may celebrate a bit on the tuesday (as a civil servant I also have an extra day off on the Wednesday for the Queen's birthday).

Much of my family will be away for the weekend and I feel really strange as we had massive celebrations in 1977.

It only seems like last year that I bought a Silver Jubilee sticker for my guitar. Being a plastic coated one it still looks almost as good as new. I suppose I could buy a Golden Jubilee one to go below it.

What will we be doing this time? Not much really. We'll probably have a look throught the local paper and see if there's anything we fancy going to. If the weather is sunny we'll go out somewhere. We have some family staying and don't want them getting bored.

I must admit to wondering why they settled on this weekend for the Jubilee celebrations, presumably it is because February was too cold and 2nd June marks the 49th anniversary of the Coronation.

We're not doing anything Jubliee-y, though we did got to a barbecue last night and will go to one on Sunday too. Not really doing anything Royally special.

In our village today, there is our annual fete, with the parade starting in about 40 minutes, so going there now.

See ya later

Despite having said that I intended spending the weekend in the garden and not being involved in the Jubilee I confess to having NOT been in the garden (cold and wet) but instead spent a great deal of time watching the TV.

The coverage was superb, I tended to watch BBC rather than ITV.

The Prom concert on Saturday was excellent but cannot be compared to the Party at the Palace on Monday evening - that was fantastic. I had applied for a ticket but am now glad that I wasn't allocated one, I am sure we saw much more at home and the chances of getting a taxi with over one million people outside the palace couldn't have been high - I hate walking

Incidently I am impressed, one million people, many of whom might well have been 'celebrating' and the police arrested three people - well done to the Brits!

Today, Tuesday, I was having a shower this morning when the phone rang and whoever it was wouldn't give up.... I dripped to the phone to find it was my mother in the UK asking me if I was up! She wanted me to know the television coverage had started, she would hate me to miss anything. My eyes are now square. The parades were good, just too much of a good thing. By the time they had the fly-past I was suffering from overkill but seeing Concorde flying in formation with the Red Arrows was a wonderful sight and I did enjoy seeing them.

One million people, many waving flags and singing - spectacular.

What did occur to me was the poor police must have been having nighmares about security, that number of people and the princes doing a walkabout with their father. Then the whole of the Windsor family sitting in a tight block within grenade throwing distance of the public, none of whom would have been vetted - one grenade would have wiped out the whole Royal family.

So now the holiday is over, what did you do for Jubilee?