The Queen's Platinum Jubilee




Hello lovelies! How was your Jubilee weekend? Did you have fun? It's been wonderful to watch all of the TV coverage showing Great Britain resplendent with street parties and parades. I loved seeing the Party at the Palace - wasn't that a brilliant line-up of performers? Diana Ross was utter class, Queen were amazing and Diversity were very clever. But best of all had to be Her Majesty the Queen having afternoon tea with Paddington Bear! What a brilliant script and what a lovely idea to let us see this humorous side to the Queen.




Celebrations on Tresco started off on Thursday evening with the lighting of our beacon. Steve and Jamie had spent the week building the oh-so-much-more-than-a-bonfire on the top of the island. After a welcome speech to the 500 or so crowd from our Island Manager Nick Halliday, Steve helped local boy Isaac to set the beacon alight. We sang the National Anthem after toasting the Queen with champagne - it was a lovely island moment for us all.






Steve and Jamie did such a great job to the construction that the beacon held itself upright throughout the evening. We were able to see the beacon on St Martin's from this vantage point too and also enjoyed watching their fireworks.










On Friday we held an invitation to Paint the Queen at Gallery Tresco. It was an open competition resulting in a brilliant uptake from all ages, visitors and locals alike. Rachel Young, our Events Manager, organised and distributed the supplies, steered the day, did the judging and generally made the whole thing work - it was a resounding success. That meant the only job for me to do was turn up in my Jubilee outfit. A rummage in my wardrobe resulted in this red, white and blue ensemble with my Lulu Guinness union jack clutch bag.



 


My headdress was a floral hairband that I'd come across in a charity shop on one of my trips to the mainland in April. I knew whenever I saw it that sometime it would come in useful. The belt was a recent purchase from Amazon. Nothing else in the outfit is new and many pieces are pre-loved.




I have to tell you that my outfit caused hardly any comment or eyebrow to be raised all day long. Clearly I have such a reputation as being over the top in my dressing that it as become unremarkable. I found that so funny. 

Anyway, our Platinum Jubilee celebrations continued on Sunday with a bicycle parade from Smith Square to New Grimsby quay. Along the sea front there was a Maker's Market, cake stall and all of the Paint the Queen entries were on display outside the Gallery too.  However Steve and I were absent from all of this as we're busy doing renovations to our boat before we launch it in a couple of weeks. (Launching sounds oh-so-terribly-grand for such a small craft.) I'm in charge of sanding and varnishing woodwork which is painfully slow, but so very necessary after some years of neglect. Steve has lots of mechanical issues to solve in the meantime. Wish us luck with all of that! 

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  1. I love your marvelously thematic outfit, Anna! That clutch is amazing! We watched a bit of the festivities on TV (every channel in Canada was "all-Queen, all the time" this weekend!) and I very much enjoyed the tea with Paddington.

    Wow, what a cool beacon!

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    1. I'm not really one for fancy dress (as opposed to dressing fancy), but this was one time I was very happy to join in x

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  2. Seems like someone had a great time! I love what you are wearing. It is so lively. Stay blessed.

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  3. Brilliant celebrations weren’t they Anna, you look perfect in your red white and blue outfit. I tried to dress the same over the holiday. Have a super week my friend x Jacqui x

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    1. I am so proud to be British - the Jubilee really did bring the best out in us all x

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  4. Hi Anna,
    you're right being proud to be British and for your fabulous Queen. What a extraordinary person. The video with her and Paddington... so lovely!
    And your styling was perfect up to your hair with the hair flowers. Lovely!
    A heat wave is promised for the next days... we are heading to France, to the Atlantic Ocean.
    Hugs from Susa

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    1. Lovely to hear from you Susa! I do hope that you're having a super time in the sun x

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  5. Ah, you really did do this Jubilee outfit amazingly!!! I ended up wearing my Union flag tee on the Sunday for a cosplay Who outfit (Rose Tyler WW2!) and a Laura Ashley dress at school but suddenly realised I could have worn my Irregular Choice pastel floral union flag heels to go with it!

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    1. Cheers Kezzie. Your Irregular Choice shoes sound amazing!

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