The Royal Wedding
I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s royal wedding, but then I found this delightfully irreverent description of the BBC and ITV coverage of the event in the Scottish Sunday Herald. Here’s a taste:
... the wedding itself must be counted a modest success. The bride didn’t scrub up too badly considering she’d spent her first 50 years in sweaty jodhpurs, smelling of old labrador and potting compost. That voluminous dress was cut to hide a multitude of sins. The hats were more of a gamble – the first bore a passing resemblance to the one worn by Vera Duckworth at Ken and Deirdre’s nuptials on Friday, while the second seemed to be made of porcupine quills…