Celebrating our Queen's 65 years on the throne - longest reigning Monarch - with a Street Party

Another excuse for a street party!

Last year's was such a success (Queen's 90th birthday) folk wanted to do it again

Hard to imagine that our Queen has reigned for 65 years.

I remember her Coronation very well.

School was closed and every street in our then neighbourhood had a party (very rare these days).

Also rare were televisions - I remember just 1 in the street

Beginning with a BBQ at midday 

Community police dropped by for a chat 

Afternoon tea at 2.30pm

and Bring and Share Buffet at 5.30 pm

The road had to be cleared and sorted from 7.0 pm in order to be opened again to traffic at 8.0 pm

A good but tiring day

Disturbance in the Road and Tranquillity in the Park

We were disturbed by flashing blue lights outside our window last evening. It seemed a car chase terminated outside our house.

Just a brief picture from my i-pad showing a little part. It felt a little like being on a movie set.

There were 3 police cars and a very large police van (out of the picture) and at least 12 policeman to whom the suspects were handcuffed to some of them.

It was fascinating watching a sniffer dog getting so excited when it found what it was looking for.

Contrast to tranquillity in our local park.

The scene is of lights over East London at dusk which look like they are on the horizon here. Not so, we are on a hill. 

Now to some sunset scenes where I love the variety on different days.

Contrasting with the pale sun of a winter afternoon lighting up the newly pruned Dogwoods.

I have at last found a way to deal with my photographs and files in Windows 10. It may not be the best way, I don't know, but it works.

Using photos from my phone, i-pad and camera took some thought as well. The easiest thing seems to be to let the software do what it wants and then copy and paste to where I want them. More time consuming but, hey! it was worth it.

Local Park Throughout the Year

I was walking through the park to the shops the other day and as I saw that the leaves were beginning to fall I thought of the many pictures I had taken throughout the year on my phone showing the different seasons.

So here are some of them.

Above a very frosty one

Spring is in the Air

The good old all season Dogwood

then Summer takes a hold

The wild flower meadow

I liked the different coloured grasses here

and we are back to Autumn

It always fascinates me - the different sunsets at different times of year as the light changes

This one was taken this week

I feel so blessed being able to walk to the shops through this park and it is almost at the top of my road