Remembering Royal Ascot - where I almost met the Queen
All this week, I've seen peculiar names trending on Twitter. They've all turned out to be names of horses, and that's how I found out that this week is Royal Ascot week. For those not acquainted with Ascot, it's a place near Windsor in Berkshire where there's an old horseracing track. Every year in June, there's a week of races where the Royal Family show up. I think it's normally the Tuesday where it's Ladies' Day, and this is supposed to mean "women only" but is in fact ... well, far from it. On Ladies' Day, you get women dressing up, wearing poncy hats or fascinators . Men get dressed up too. Seeing as how I've actually been to Ladies' Day at Royal Ascot once, I thought I'd write about that today, instead of reviewing something. 1 (Not trying to procrastinate finishing off the Lady Chatterley's Lover review, or anything ... *cough*) The reason for being there was because it was my then to-be-sister-in-law's...