Diamond Jubilee Pageant on The Thames, London

Wow what a day, today we travelled up to London with Jo and Murphy and waited for 6 hours by the River Thames waiting for the Queen in her Jubilee pageant and it was well worth the wait.

The little people were amazing waiting in one spot for six hours in the rain with nothing to do just the excitement of the pageant coming our way and maybe seeing the Queen.

Well, we saw the pageant, we saw the queen and other members of the royal family, lots of boats and in true British style all whilst getting soaking wet by the rain. I had to pull Samuel away from the railing to leave as the rain ran off our faces with him saying 'one last boat mum'. It was then a scramble back to London Bridge to catch a very crowded train home where we finished off our picnic and sat in damp clothes.

Today we created a a great memory that will last a lifetime...

Our street party to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Wow, who thought a street people that we hardly know would be such good fun. After 8 years of living in our road we met most of the people that live in it and what a nice bunch. We only actually know our immediate neighbours who funny enough did not come but we met lots of families from the other end of the road.

Nanny Maureen popped over and we spent the afternoon enjoying great food (one of the best curries I have tasted), good company and children all playing together in the street like the old days.

The little fella putting the finishing touches to the table centres

An array of desserts

That outfit is always a winner

Being filmed by the BBC

Samuel entertaining the crowds

Enjoying our road with no cars

Little lady on her way home from a great party

Start of the Jubilee celebrations... street parties at school

Daisy and Samuel both had street parties at their schools today to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Unfortunately I did not get any photos of Samuel's as I was at Daisy's school all day but I am proud to say that the little fella won the fancy dress competition for his year... that Coldstream Guards costume is always a winner.

Not only was the little fella a winner today but also our little lady was for her year in her school's annual talent competition with her dancing act.

Very proud of our little people.

The little lady is 8

Daisy pop's turned 8 today. We started the day with present opening and she was over the moon to get a ticket to see JLS in concert along with lots of other goodies such as clothes, Justin Bieber book, lip gloss, bag, the list goes on...

She was most horrified that she had to go to school as normally her birthday falls in half term, anyway she changed her mood when she knew they were going on a school trip to Wakehurst Place during the day. Samuel and I picked her up from athletics and when we arrived home we had to manically prepare for a family bbq. The garden had been decked in pink sparkly bunting and once the bbq was lit we were ready to go.