Trooping the colour...

[ben ashton]

is on now!

[Mid A 15]

It will be a wet one if Kent is anything to go by!

[J.R.]

I stayed in bed until late is it was PERSIStantly coming down here in Surrey !

[shoz]

A fantastic ceremony, makes me proud to be British!

Slightly off topic but did anyone see Prince Andrew desperately trying to skip his way back in step at the Falklands service on Sunday? The guy can't even march!

[ben ashton]

He can do what he wants he's a Prince!
+he flies helicopters rather well

[J.R.]

He can do what he wants he's a Prince!
+he flies helicopters rather well

Whilst trying to keep in step ??

[midget]

What sort of uniform was Wimp Edward wearing in the Falklands, and why?
Maggie

[sejintenej]

He can do what he wants he's a Prince!
+he flies helicopters rather well

Whilst trying to keep in step ??

Why bother - he flies on his ass and there's a lot more you can do on your *** like write poor ripostes than marhing in step.

For those who didn't suffer the 1953 St Matthews Day Parade, it was the entire school with either 3 or 4 full bands.
You are marching along in step with the band in front when it goes round a corner and you hear the band behind which is a different distance away so you are immediately marching out of step with the band you can hear!
Then we had the problem that we had to break step going over London Bridge despite the bands playing and afterwards you had to get back into step with two bands which were out of synch with each other!

Prince A should have practiced like everyone else!

[ben ashton]

FAILED Marine Prince Edward angered Falklands veterans last night after wearing a Navy captain’s uniform.

Edward, 43, wore the uniform when representing the Queen at ceremonies in the South Atlantic.

He dropped out of Commando training in 1987 because he found it too tough. But he is officially allowed to wear the Navy uniform after the Queen made him honorary Commodore-in-Chief of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary last year.

Yorkie Malone an ex-Marine sergeant who fought in the Falklands, said: “He failed the Marines, and he’s never been in the Navy — so what gives him the right to wear a uniform?”

Yorkie, 62, of Tavistock, Devon, added: “His mum obviously told him to go to the cupboard and pick out the uniform he wants.

“It’s her armed forces. But it will bother people who earned the right to wear it.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2007 ... 68,00.html

[sejintenej]

A fantastic ceremony, makes me proud to be British!

Shoz; I haven't seen it since then and you probably have never seen it but I always thought that the late 1950's Beating Retreat by the band was on a par with anything the Armed forces could do including the Trooping the Colour.

It is one thing for two halves of a band to march through each other but when you get four quarters going in different directions through all the rest ...... that was skill and timing.