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August 30, 2007
Windsor Castle
As you are all well aware, I'm writing this from the future (September 6 to be exact — I'm already home) and backposting.
I believe that on Thursday August 30th we went to Windsor Castle, in Windsor. (I had a bit of trouble on Friday August 31st that affected my memory some.)
[Correction: On Thursday we went shoppin' (and had butter scones for tea…), ahem, on Thursday we shopped for school uniforms. It was Friday that we went to Windsor; the part about something else happening Friday that affected my memory holds true.]
The Queen was not in that day as denoted by the fact that the Royal Standard was absent and the Union Jack was flying in its place. Still, I got some very nice photos.
Several shots of Windsor Castle immediately follow (the place is huge — you'll get just bits and pieces):
This is a house of some sort with a severe lean.
Once a week Queen Victoria is disinterred and placed on a pedestal in the center of the village.
The castle's rumpus room is being remodeled. This is the drywall delivery.
Prince Charles and Camilla were married here.
This was, at one time, the train station. It is now shops.
Windsor Village.
I imagine this is a shop full of Old Women. It's right next to Moe'z (which I suspect is spelled with a 'Z' to keep Matt Groening's attorneys away.)
Posted by delmer at August 30, 2007 1:58 PM
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Regarding the "Prince Charles and Camilla were married here." photo: Can you explain why there are double yellow lines on the edge of the road and why are the white dashed lines crooked? Is it because the road crew drinks "warm beer" or your visitors eating with forks upside down? Them Brits are all backwards comparing to the Americans.
Posted by: Michael at September 7, 2007 2:50 AM
I like the warm beer idea -- it goes along with a line-painting problem we had years ago in the small town I grew up in. One of the main streets had been repaved and when it came time to line them the guy doing it had a bit of alcohol in him. Going up the hill the oncoming lane got narrower and narrower.
I think both lines, the double yellow and crooked white, mark no parking areas. I have a mail out to my fact checker to check the validity of my assumption.
Posted by: delmer at September 7, 2007 10:04 AM