Monday 4 June 2012

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations


Hallo Bloggy Friends - my name is Trilby and my Mum Magic has said I can share her blog today to tell you about my visit on Saturday to Abbey Lea Care Home Garden Party for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. I went with my brother Merlin and we had a very exciting time.


There were lots of people there and a lady was singing songs from the 1940s and trying to get everyone to join in...but we didn't know the words :-)



Probably the most exciting part was at the back of the garden where peeps were standing waiting near a man cooking sausages and burgers. There were such lovely smells and we waited very patiently for our turn and hoped a sausage was on the way.


This is me and Merlin getting a little impatient at waiting .... sausages were being eaten but not by us :-( but we did get a little bit after a while. Then it was getting cold so we went indoors and Judith & Leigh tried to guess the weight of a special Jubilee cake...and Leigh won!!


It weighed 5 lbs which is more than me (!) and we were able to bring it home for our Jubilee Party on Sunday. But my Mum has said that I've done enough blogging for now and it's time for me to sleep while she tells you all about the big party we had yesterday....hope to blog again soon - goodnight.



Hey friends - Magic back - to tell you about our little party here to celebrate the Queen's 60 years on the throne. There are lots of special celebrations throughout the UK and the Commonwealth and lots of street parties and there are flags and bunting everywhere round the village. Yesterday there was a huge river pageant on the Thames in London and the Queen and other Royal peeps were there to see a thousand boats going along the river. The barges were painted beautiful colours  and there were boats with peeps playing music and dressed in costumes. We all wished we could have been in London to see but we watched it on our TV and Judith made us some special bandanas to wear and Leigh prepared some goodies and we had a wonderful picnic in the conservatory because it poured with rain :-( Here are some more pictures of our feast:


The Victoria Sponge cake filled with cream - a bit messy but delicious

And a close-up of the decorations with the Queen and her corgis outside Buckingham Palace.


Chocoloate cup cakes with a boat for the river pageant and some little Union Jack flags.


Here we are enjoying chicken jelly from our special Union Jack bowls.


You can see my smart bandana here with images of London and crowns for the Queen.


This is my sister Caoimhe with Merlin hoping for some Hot Dog sausages - they were very yummy.


Crybbe even let Trilby finish off the jelly in his bowl!


And of course Trilby fell asleep after all that excitement.... on top of Aoife!

15 comments:

  1. What a wonderful party!! We loved the corgis on the sponge cake!!

    -Bart and Ruby

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  2. What a great celebration! I even saw myself on the pawsome
    Victoria Sponge Cake :)
    Stewey

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  3. We stayed up late to watch all the boats! But we didn't have any sausages or other goodies. We love the Sponge with all the cut outs!

    Congrats on the cake.

    XXXOOO Daisy, Bella & Roxy

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  4. Merlin and Trilby you are both so cute, I bet they loved you at the care home. Well done to Leigh for guessing the weight of the cake, it made a great centre piece for your party with such lovely cakes. Judith is very clever too, your bandanas suit you. Looks like you had a fabulous party.
    Love Eileen and Annie xx

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  5. Those foodables made me drool. Looked GOOD!! I'm so happy you had a party to celebrate the Queen stuffs - it's a sea of union jacks for sure!

    So are your peeps keeping Merlin??? I know a mini schnauzer called Merlin here, his mum is the secretary at my doggie skool. He's 11 years old and really "chilled" - nothing phases him and mum wishes I could be a little more like that! Humph!!

    Tail Wuggles, Rubie xxx

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    1. Merlin will be going to his new home but his new owners were just married on Saturday and are on honeymoon right now so we are keeping him until 20 June.We will really miss him :-(

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  6. Waaahhh Trilby gets the free pass of sleeping on top of Aoife. Lucky little puppy!

    I'm curious about this sponge cake people are talking about. I wish we could cook some but we don't have an oven. Does it taste good?

    How were the sausages, guys? Were they good? I hope you enjoyed the Queen's 60th year on the throne.

    Huggies and Cheese,

    Haopee

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    1. The sponge cake is very tasty - just made with flour, eggs, butter and sugar and a dash of vanilla essence and then when cooked (in the oven) it is sandwiched together with raspberry jam. This one had fresh cream too :-)Sorry to hear you have no oven I don't think you could cook it without xx

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  7. Oh Tribly, it look like you and Merlin had a great time at the Jubilee party! The food looks absolutely amazing!

    Hey Magic, just letting you know that I have passed along the Pawsome Blogger award to you! You can find it here http://janet-bassetmomma.blogspot.ca/2012/06/awards-day.html

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  8. Howdy Magic, you sure have had lots of fun with the Julilee Celebrations. YOur sponge cake looked wonderful and the decorations were heaps cool. We saw a little of the celebrations on TV here and mum watch the concert. Glad you all had a great time. No worries, and love, Stella and Rory

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  9. you were right next to the best place at the celebration-the burgers and sausages! yum, our schnauzer mouths are watering! also, our mom said she thinks all those cakes are so beautiful!

    ♥ yuki and rocket

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  10. Oh wow what a fabulous day you all had and those cakes they looked so yummy.

    Molly, Taffy, Monty and Winnie

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  11. Hello Magic. I just dropped by to tell you that I'm giving you the Sunshine Award at this post http://www.mydogslove.me/2012/06/awards-sunday.html

    I hope you have a great weekend.

    Huggies and Cheese,

    Haopee

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  12. Wow, everything looks pawtastic!!! Toast for Queen and her doggie babies!

    Momo & Pinot

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  13. Looks like you had an pawesome jubilee, shame about the weather! ( it was awful here!)

    Slobbers

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