Things are happening

It is H.I.'s birthday today. She still looks just as cute as she does in this photo.

She is going to London with her daughter and they will meet up with grand daughter - three generations of girlies. They are not going to join any queues other than the one for the Milton Avery exhibition and she is coming back tonight.

I am not working tomorrow after all. We are going to watch the state funeral instead. Well, we will probably dip in and out of it really. We will be close to relatively modern sanitisation in our compact but adorable city apartment, unlike the people who are physically attending the event itself. I wonder how many heads of state will wet themselves over the long day ahead.

I think that the full momentousness of the Queen's death will only be appreciated in the next few months. I used to wonder how much of her purported moderating influence was hype, but now - as the world begins splitting itself apart - I think there was very little hype at all.

Everything that is happening now - and has happened for the last couple of years - seems to be gigantic, and I find it hard to separate the portentous from the meaningless. The world is making a deep grinding noise as it rotates on its axis. Things are happening.