Short and Sweet

It's closing in on midnight here, so this will be short and sweet.

Last night an intense thunderstorm woke us up about 1:30am.   Lightening flashed, thunder boomed, and the rain poured down sideways.  I had every hope that today would be a cool and cloudy day.  Instead it was once again hot and muggy... 

The headlines of the newspapers were all about the newest member of the Royal Family.  There was a gun salute scheduled today and the bells at Westminster Abbey were to ring for several hours this afternoon.

We headed off to Paddington Station this morning.  I wonder how many children plead with their parents to go into this shop before boarding a train. 

We took a train to Windsor...

Windsor is home to a number of great pillarboxes including this Queen Victoria in a most usual color.

Windsor is also home to a rather wonderful castle!  More about that in tomorrow's post.

With the hot weather, it seemed like this was another day where consumption of ice cream was mandatory.

Late in the afternoon we walked part of the Long Walk behind the castle.  I heard a flock of feral parakeets and finally found them eating away at a group of bird feeders.

I'll end today's post with another unusually colored pillarbox and the promise to do better tomorrow.  Good night!