Coronation Edition of My Weekly
Loving our bumper Coronation edition of My Weekly.
This is a major event for our country, viewed around the world and I’m lapping up everything I can. London is preparing itself and as I live in the centre of the action it would be criminal to miss out. Where I’m going to be on the route? I’m not sure, but the upside of it being shorter than our late Queen’s Coronation and funeral will make position decisions will be less complicated. I’m thinking, little backpack of snacks, comfy shoes, mac to ether sit on or keep the rain off and a fully charged mobile.
To mark the occasion my sister Wendy and I have written a children’s story about the Coronation, which isn’t as crazy as it sounds. We’ve both always had a strange fascination for The London Underground and many years ago, the late 90’s Wendy and I were standing on the platform at Piccadilly Station looking down the track and spied a group of mice scampering around, one had a piece of sandwich in its mouth and the others were chasing it. You’ll often see them, they’re not an unusual site but once on the train we passed the time away making up stories about the parallel lives they led underneath the underground. By the time we were leaving Earls Court Tube the political mice kept the mouse world in order from Westminster tube, the posh mice lived in Knightsbridge, artistic mice in Covent Garden, detective mice at Baker Street, you get the pattern, and the list went on. By Turnham Green (District Line) we’d even made up a story involving the feared cheese guarding security cat that patrols Harrods own labyrinth of tunnels underneath the store and by Richmond, our final stop, we had our first story firmly in our heads it was called ‘The Ghost of Knightsbridge’ it involved with the help of ‘The Daily Tail’ a rather exciting Halloween Event, attended by mice from all over London even the Church mice of St Pauls thought “why not it’ll be fun” but none were prepared for the fright of their lives when they came face to face with a real-life ghost mouse. With the help of a lady called Carol Biss who had a publishing company, Illustrator Andy Hunt, Harrods themselves and The British Transport Museum we launched 7 stories in 2 books entitled 'Underneath the Underground' which to this day still make us laugh, the old books later published by Penguin occasionally come up on eBay, but do we have any more in us? We think we do and the first is our best yet. Most of the new stories have been created on trips to Stoke on Trent visiting Dad where we began to wonder, how our mice living on the London underground would deal with a Coronation? Maybe with a fabulous party hosted by the Asian Mice of Hounslow who end up dancing the night away under and a rather spectacular glitter ball.
Article originally from My Weekly!