I've just about dried out from yesterday's trip to London to watch the Coronation Flypast and soak (no pun intended) up the atmosphere. I hadn't planned on going but I heard rumours of 'special' aircraft formations and I thought after the epic formations at the Platinum Jubilee (you can read my blog from last year here and watch my video of the flypast below) I wanted to be a part of it.
The Ministry Of Defence (MOD) warned a couple of days before the celebration that due to the horrific weather forecast the flypast was at risk of being scaled back or worse cancelled. This helpfully came 2 hours after I'd bought my train tickets ... So I decided to take a chance on going as I could always go and find something else to do should the flypast be cancelled.
Decorations at Eastbourne Station
En route
When I got to London there was no news on whether the flypast was going ahead or not so I decided it was a good excuse to pop to my favourite book shop Treadwells 😇.
Look at all those books 💕
Unlike the weather Treadwells didn't disappoint and I came away with some goodies -
I got one of these candle holders on my last visit and was heartbroken when it broke so I got two this time!
One can't have too many tarot artbooks!
I also got this book that I didn't know existed! I really enjoyed the author's previous book Sigil Witchery and this one delves deeper into connection art and magic, I've been wanting to get back into drawing etc so I thought this would be a good buy.
After Treadwells the flypast still seemed to be going ahead so I went down to Waterloo Place where I watched the flypast last year. I'd missed the actual 'crowning' moment as I was on the tube, luckily Piccadilly Circus had me covered.
The decorations were out in full force (think or say what you want about the Coronation or Royal Family we do pageantry very well!).
The world's biggest tea towel?
The brollies were out in full force ...
Unfortunately to no-one's surprise the MOD announced that the flypast was being scaled back to helicopters and the Red Arrows only. We were all disappointed but as you can hear from the cheers on the video everyone made the best of it (please ignore the raindrops on the lense blurring everything out).
I lifted some photos from the video and unfortunately they weren't very good due to the gloom.
Merlin & Apaches
Wildcat & Merlins
Juno HT1s
Puma & Chinooks
The flypast was rounded off by a flypast from the Red Arrows.
After the flypast I headed home to dry off. I'm pleased I went, as the atmosphere was good and I can always have the "I was there" boast 😆 I just wish the weather would have played ball. We've had an utterly crap spring cold and wet with none of the random 'hot days' we normally have (an example being when I went to Yungblud in March last year and I was walking around London in a t-shirt! If you don't believe me then read my blog 😆).
I think I might need to find a more indoor special interest that doesn't involve being soaked 😆
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