5 vs 5

5 vs 5

My dad used to say that the reason UK would not join euro is because they won't give up pound or the lose the face of royalty on their currency. I was young then and it was enough for me to understand.



But now, after reading a papers report I think it's true. That the reason they will not join euro is because they know that UK is not the leading economy in the euro zone , that in itself is enough to make them refuse. They are too proud to take the backseat. Pound and autonomy makes them, well, unique and separate.

And maybe with what's happening right now, it seems like a good thing.


Just a thought.

Long Live the Queen

Long Live the Queen

   I am not a royalist. But I am a reader. I grew up devouring books which took me to places I can only dream of, and inform me of stuff I previously not know of. My fascination with royalty and history isn't something intentional but rather due to influence and genetic, after all my grandmother was a one big reading machine.

   Before the late Princess Diana's death my only information about royalty was all from books. Royal wedding was when Anne Boleyn married King Henry VIII, death when she was beheaded and river pageant when the said King had Jane Seymour as his wife

   So imagine my glee when another river pageant was announced. I wouldn't miss it for anything. Just like the royal wedding last year it's just being a part of history. Where 20 years from now I could tell stories to my children saying "Oh yes, it was raining that day but I was there..". The fact that it's the first river pageant in the last 300 hundred years didn't hurt as well. And above anything else, before I forget it's also because I am an Anglophile at some degree.

The collective sentiment.

During the Pageant we've got one of the best view, I think.

The Spirit of Chartwell (where the Royal Family was in).

See the Ladies in white?

The escort

The crowd

The Mall

See I was there.

It was a cold and rainy but, there you go.

=)