Notice bandaged finger.
Laat waai!!!
Biting the lip helps the ball go straight?
Lekker tekkies! 
Saturday was an early start for Chants, G and I as we headed to London to see the trooping of the Colour, an annual event help in honour of the Sovereign's birthday. Al unfortunately had to work. It turns out that this parade started in the 1700s as a vital military exercise when a Regiment's flag or its "colour" would be paraded through the regiment reminding them what the flagged looked like so that they could recognise it as the gathering point on the battlefield. Nowadays its basically the Queens birthday parade. It was great. Hundreds of soldiers, marching tunes, and even canon salutes and fly overs by old war planes. The queens typically inspects the troops (quite a task considering there were over 1100 of them) and so the royal family put in their appearance and we got some great views of them.
The green queen.
Look ma, just one finger.
The heavens opened as the planes began their fly-by.
Afterwards we did some touristy things. Piccadilly circus in the rain.
Hamleys Toys Store, said to be the best toys shop in the world. There are 5 floors!! The huge Lego section reminded me of SPD.... you would have had a ball Steve!
I enjoyed this.... apparently fashion was as important to them then as it is today.Sunday morning we visited again at the Open Door Church and then I suggested we spend a chilled afternoon at Grapham Water, a dam not too far away.
A great spot to kick a ball around, and believe it not, a great place to watch and photograph birds :-)
A great spot to kick a ball around, and believe it not, a great place to watch and photograph birds :-)
4 comments:
Nice pics brother!
HI Wal & G. Really nice seeing your pics, especially of da Trooping of da Kulla. Kultcha, o broer!!
We last heard from you okes when u were on top of the Jungfrau. It sounded really great. Keep us posted of your great travels. Howie back at home now- keeping us all amused, as you can imagine. He's leading a youth camp at New Covenant next week.Quite hard work - spends each day in preparation.
Rich & Nics enjoying the flat, for which you both sacrificed much time & effort!!
Love, Mom & Dad.
HI Wal & G. Really nice seeing your pics, especially of da Trooping of da Kulla. Kultcha, o broer!!
We last heard from you okes when u were on top of the Jungfrau. It sounded really great. Keep us posted of your great travels. Howie back at home now- keeping us all amused, as you can imagine. He's leading a youth camp at New Covenant next week.Quite hard work - spends each day in preparation.
Rich & Nics enjoying the flat, for which you both sacrificed much time & effort!!
Love, Mom & Dad.
Wal! G!
Guys your pics are really awesome! Wal, u getting an eye for photography of note my bro: those photos of the queen were top quality journalism, i couldve pictured them in The Telegraph or some official publication - but then i got to the bottom of the page: awesome shots of those waterbirds! And the fisherman! Great to see u excelling in that! Flip, now I wanna go and take some rad pics!
u folks inspire.
and other deep stuff
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