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They think it's all over - it is now
May. 16th, 2007 06:00 pmYesterday was Portsmouth mayor making in the morning, with a fond final farewell to Sue and Maria, who posed for one last photo with me (one arm round each of them) in the Guildhall before we all went out to the Mayoral cars to go our separate ways...
At tea time there was a rehearsal in the Thorngate for our own Mayor Making ceremony today. It all went OK, then I had to help John the driver hump all the left-over bottles that my mother had cleaned out of the Mayor's Parlour drinks cabinet into our house while me ma rushed off to catch the bank before it shut. With that job done, I rushed upstairs just in time to catch the RL Challenge Cup draw on BBC News 24. Quins are away to Wigan :(
Then in the evening it was the newly-installed Lord Mayor of Portsmouth's Banquet. I was sat next to Margaret, the previous Lady Mayoress of Portsmouth, who kept the whole table amused with her acerbic sense of humour and her observation that she's old enough to get away with being outrageous. She kept trying to persuade me that I ought to become a councillor myself, and telling my mother that she should be proud of me and that I was a perfect gentleman *blush*
( End of an era )
At tea time there was a rehearsal in the Thorngate for our own Mayor Making ceremony today. It all went OK, then I had to help John the driver hump all the left-over bottles that my mother had cleaned out of the Mayor's Parlour drinks cabinet into our house while me ma rushed off to catch the bank before it shut. With that job done, I rushed upstairs just in time to catch the RL Challenge Cup draw on BBC News 24. Quins are away to Wigan :(
Then in the evening it was the newly-installed Lord Mayor of Portsmouth's Banquet. I was sat next to Margaret, the previous Lady Mayoress of Portsmouth, who kept the whole table amused with her acerbic sense of humour and her observation that she's old enough to get away with being outrageous. She kept trying to persuade me that I ought to become a councillor myself, and telling my mother that she should be proud of me and that I was a perfect gentleman *blush*
( End of an era )
