Soldiers

We went to Cardiff on Wednesday, mainly to visit the castle, which we had not visited before. It turned out to have a much more interesting history than we'd imagined, but there was a bonus. We'd forgotten that it was June 2nd - Coronation Day. We were treated to parades and music by the band of the Royal Army Air Corps before Territorial Army volunteers fired a 21-gun salute. As it happened, I'd recently acquired a new camera (the previous one was stolen long ago) and Angela got some nice video footage.

Interesting to think that at one time you wouldn't have caught me anywhere near anything military. These days I feel a vague stirring of patriotic pride at such events. Chatting to three very young soldiers before photographing them standing by their field gun was all very pleasant, too. I think it's called getting old.