Twelve Months Twenty-Four Photos. Numbers Eleven and Twelve - June

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It would be a lie to claim that the Queen's Jubilee celebrations inconvenienced me, I was working for the bits that weren't an actual public holiday and, at the time, had a meeting with someone from Trading Standards about a company that had fraudulently invoiced for work they had never done, then a friend was holding a 'let's avoid the Jubilee' party. The photograph of the Queen dolls was taken in South Kensington about a week after the Jubilee weekend.

The odd thing about this year is that I don't really remember bad weather being much of a factor. By which I mean that I don't remember it stopping me getting out and doing things much, and I'm someone who prefers not to go out in the rain unless it's something I absolutely have to do. That day sticks in my mind as a bright and sunny day when I had a particularly bad hayfever attack while walking and so was weaving along the street sneezing in to an already sodden handkerchief.

The other picture is from Abbotsbury Swannery, visited during a family holiday in South Devon. During the days the weather behaved itself until the Thursday when I was coming back from Exeter by train, when the rain poured down and didn't stop, following me all the way back to London and then Peckham, while staying with my family for the rest of the week. At the Swannery we arrived just before one of the big feedings of the day, which are the things that draw the biggest crowds. In separate pens the breeding pairs would be with their chicks, which are obviously full of cute.