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June 2003 news

Trooping the Colour posted 20 Jun 2003 by Dan Karran [permalink] Last weekend I was in London to see the Trooping the Colour celebration to mark the Queen's official birthday. Her actual birthday is earlier on in the year but her official one is left until the summer so that celebrations can take place under blue skies and never ending sun. Well, we certainly had that on Saturday... I left sunburnt! It was a great day though, and fascinating to see how much attention is paid to the planning of the ceremony (including 2 trial runs in the previous weekends). I have just added to my features gallery a collection of 22 pictures from the Trooping the Colour on Saturday. During Sunday I wandered around London a little before going to the Totally London finale in Soho. I was sat with some friends in Little Italy, enjoying a live jazz band playing right in front of us. Pictures of that day will be coming soon too...

Glorious sunshine in London posted 15 Jun 2003 by Dan Karran [permalink] Yesterday saw the return of fantastic weather in London, and all in time for the annual Trooping the Colour to mark the Queen's birthday. I spent the day there yesterday, taking lots of photos and seemingly getting very sunburnt! I'm now sunbathing in Ilford waiting to go into London's Soho district for a street party.