It's a lovely day,a little grey in parts and the chance of a light rain mid-day. London is reaching fever pitch and it's all over the television (unfortunately for the grumpy's) hard to avoid. For me it is a pleasure to be distracted, albeit only for a day, from all the woes and worries in the news just lately. Tiny tidbits of news are sneaking out but thankfully nothing sensational like the dress though there are suggestions it is from the house of Alexander McQueen.
On the food and drink front: of the 1900 guests invited to the Abbey for the service just a mere 600 have been invited back to the palace for a lunch-time reception where reputably 10,000 canapés will be served and guests will drink Pol Roger champagne and £8.50-a-bottle Chapel Down white from Tenterden in Kent. . An even more select crowd of 300 will attend the evening dinner hosted by the Prince of Wales where - rumour has it - the Swiss chef Anton Mosimann is cooking.
According to the Independent newspaper yesterday, the wedding will be marked across the UK by around 5,500 street parties: 298 of them in Hertfordshire, 85 in Richmond upon Thames - and none in Glasgow. Up to 500,000 people are expected to attend such parties, and, according to one estimate, around 2.5 million cocktail sausages and 700 miles of bunting will be used. Beer consumption is likely to be up by 100 million pints.
If you haven't yet planned your street party there is barely time now but maybe someone will let you crash there's.
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On the food and drink front: of the 1900 guests invited to the Abbey for the service just a mere 600 have been invited back to the palace for a lunch-time reception where reputably 10,000 canapés will be served and guests will drink Pol Roger champagne and £8.50-a-bottle Chapel Down white from Tenterden in Kent. . An even more select crowd of 300 will attend the evening dinner hosted by the Prince of Wales where - rumour has it - the Swiss chef Anton Mosimann is cooking.
According to the Independent newspaper yesterday, the wedding will be marked across the UK by around 5,500 street parties: 298 of them in Hertfordshire, 85 in Richmond upon Thames - and none in Glasgow. Up to 500,000 people are expected to attend such parties, and, according to one estimate, around 2.5 million cocktail sausages and 700 miles of bunting will be used. Beer consumption is likely to be up by 100 million pints.
If you haven't yet planned your street party there is barely time now but maybe someone will let you crash there's.
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