Friday, 29 April 2011  Royal Wedding: a tale of two cities.
Where were you when Kate and Wills got hitched? It's going to be
one of those - Chas and Di, Di dead, Piper Alpha, Dunblane or
9/11 questions. I'm quite pleased my children will remember that
they were on the sofa with their mother.  I started my day about
as ambivalent as a person can be about the whole thing. On the
one hand, Kate and Will seem like a lovely couple and what's not
to like about them getting hitched, I was keen to see her frock
and I do like a good bit of pageantry. And on the other, I don't
think princess is necessarily a good role model, the day off is
mighty inconvenient and expensive and who's to say Andrew Morton
won't write a book in a decade and we'll all learn what a sham
it was.  I've also spent a goodly chunk of the last few weeks
thinking and writing about Ms Middleton's forthcoming nuptuals.
I got mildly outraged when I learned Little Miss Princess was
moving in between Mr Tickle and Mr Bump. I got slightly more
cross ab