tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post292468516009681601..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: watchers, wedding, partiesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-18397237412083613032011-05-01T12:01:30.089+01:002011-05-01T12:01:30.089+01:00Among the criticisms with which I agree was the d...Among the criticisms with which I agree was the dreariness of the music (Jersualem excepted) which prompted the irreverent remark of a German newspaper that perhaps they were rehearsing for The Queen's funeral.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-83475025517024483492011-05-01T09:59:36.355+01:002011-05-01T09:59:36.355+01:00I think you touch on a significant point: the expr...I think you touch on a significant point: the expressions of the wedding service are an ideal not a prescription. The use of "shall" in the more common version surely implies proscription as a result of failure. I didn't watch any of it intentionally though it was impossible to escape on subsequent news bulletins. It is of course right that an ideal should be invoked and that everyone should be happy on Day One at least. But I kept on wishing for just a touch of reality: human beings are fallible and the length of time implied is long. Perhaps it is too much to talk about happiness glimpsed, temporarily lost then re-glimpsed. The alternative is to write about it I suppose.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-57053564599004476022011-04-30T08:24:20.280+01:002011-04-30T08:24:20.280+01:00I enjoyed it too.I enjoyed it too.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-19063856491503001802011-04-29T20:41:40.358+01:002011-04-29T20:41:40.358+01:00Love this shadow photo.Love this shadow photo.CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653106775702366387noreply@blogger.com