The Squeee

Happy Diamond Jubilee, Ma'am! Yeah, I've totally seen the Queen in real life! And all the best to the Duke of Edinburgh - hope you're feeling better soon, sir!

Or rather, have you heard of the campaign launched by some fans of Richard Armitage, to have his project about King Richard III come to fruition? If not, you really ought to check it out. :) There's a petition to sign and everything! Back in August, there was a "King Richard Week", which I forgot to mention at the time, as my parents were visiting so didn't have much time for computers. Thought it would be good to have a reminder about the project now, and perhaps find some more supporters. :) Richard Armitage has been talking about wanting to do a project about Richard III for some time now. He wants to do something historically accurate, because William Shakespeare ... well, he was paid by a Tudor, and seeing as how they defeated the Plantagenets (or something like that), trying to downplay the defeated king meant getting a paycheck. Here's the king himself to tell us what was going on, thanks to Horrible Histories :

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