This morning, we saw the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. All except Sophie, who was very unwell today, spending the day indoors. The Changing of the Guard is the same spectacle it always was. But I'm not knocking it. It's still a bit of fun for young and old. A policeman was lapping up the attention paid to him by many tourists who just had to have their photos taken with him, including Jess and Sam. There was a serious aspect to the presence of the police, however. Apart from immediate human traffic control, I heard one of them ask the crowd to inform police if they saw anything suspicious.
We left Jess and Sam shortly before 12, and they spent the afternoon by themselves, visiting attractions like the London Eye and the London Dungeons. Jean and I went to the Bag o' Nails pub in nearby Buckingham Palace Road to have lunch with my colleague, Emma, from Australia. Following an excellent catch-up with her, Jean and I came home to Sophie.
Later, we popped out again to buy a child booster seat for Harvey to sit in in the hire car we're picking up on Saturday. We bought it in the Argos store. At Argos, they have a very large range of products, so large that any one staff member couldn't possibly remember every product. The customer studies a catalogue, chooses an item, punches the product code into a store tablet, which passes to a staff member. The customer then approaches the staff, who disappear momentarily and return with the product.
The Guards arrive at the Palace.
Jean and Harvey. We'd told Harvey he might see the Queen, but it didn't happen.
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