Today we celebrated the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a quintessential British street party: lovely neighbours, a mountain of finger food, Pimm’s galore. Followed by rain, a freezing cold wind, and more rain. Towards the end, I was wearing a fleece!
I severely overestimated people’s appetite, as did everyone else, so we are back home with nearly as much food as I left with this morning.
My contribution to the feast was British with a hint of French style-wise, consisting of goats’ cheese and tarragon scones with a cream cheese and chives dip, homemade Frankfurter sausage rolls, salade niçoise a.k.a tuna salad, a couple of cheeses, a couple of patés, four French sticks and a flan pâtissier a.k.a custard flan.
Our lovely street party before the rain
Food glorious food
And finally, keeping the best for last, knitted by a very talented neighbour…
A toast to the Queen
Love love love the knitted royal family, looks like great fun
very accurate too. Remove the hats, and William has a little bald patch at the back of his head… :-p
Send the leftovers to me. You spoiled them with all that.
Happy Birthday to the Queen too. It was great having her over here.
Best,
Conor
yep, I went a bit overboard!
What fun! Looks like you had a great time and can eat on the leftovers for weeks. 🙂
The knitted family is fantastic. She should send a picture of them to the BBC.
We are having a belated Jubilee celebration on Sunday. Fairy cakes and Pimms in the sun, I hope. 🙂
Fingers crossed for good weather on Sunday! Surely it can’t get any worse 🙂