I need to put to rest some of the challenges that I'm carrying around in my head week after week without addressing them. It is silly, I know, because of all the things, this is not one that should be causing me anxiety. But I hate not completing tasks that I have started.
Several weeks ago the 52 week challenge was song, and the Portraits of me challenge was Fairy-tale. Both of these have drawn blanks despite occupying my head for this long.
Well yesterday I was in London, and whilst passing through Hyde Park I paused to look at Buckingham Palace. I don't think I have been there (apart from one rather forgettable new year's eve ) since Dad took us all to see the sights of London when we were young and everything seemed utterly magical.
I couldn't help but recite AA Milne's poem, "They're changing guards at Buckingham Palace. Christopher Robin went down with Alice, …." And now I can't get it out of my head. I also became very concerned about how these soldiers manage to see a thing under those ridiculous hats.
Anyway, what you have here is not the changing of the guards, barely a selfie (although Alice did start off as a shadow version of me) and hardly a fairy tale. It is pretty much fairy tale stuff though, don't you think? And the poem became very popular as a song when I was a child. We had it on a Children's Favourites Nursery Rhymes record.
