Apologies.......I lied.
The fact is that there was a rather unusual event happening in town that I wanted to go and see. As the appalling, wet weather of the last few days finally turned into a glorious Spring afternoon, I decided to hop on the Blokebike and see what was going on at the cathedral (which also happens, by the way, to be my most favourite building)
So there was a choir (Military Wives)...
A smartly turned out military band....
....and those scantily clad dancing girls, who performed their own delightful version of pole dancing, but this time of course, the traditional, ye olde English Maypole Dance.
These little ones were no more than five or six and they proceeded to...
...weave the most intricate cat's cradle with their tapes...
....so that eventually almost the complete pole was interwoven with yellow, green and white ribbons.
However, all of this was a bit of a sideshow, delightful as it was, because the real star of the afternoon was...
...HM The Queen, who paid a visit to Salisbury as part of her Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Although the pics are a slightly our of focus, the main point is that I was there on the day and saw HM, which won't happen again in my lifetime, or indeed hers.
God Save The Queen.
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