...the Coronation, with all its rich Christian symbolism. And today Parliament voted to impose a new law stating that two men can marry. A tragic day, a sense of something ending.
London was beautiful today - the tide was far out along the Thames, revealing wide beaches, and while boats chugged past out in the deeper water, people on the shore sipped drinks and chatted and packed out the bars and restaurants...
I have been busy with family things all week, and this afternoon we went to The Globe, and stood in the Yard to enjoy an absolutely stunning presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In Act 1, where Lysander is arguing with Demetrius about who should marry Hermia, he notes that Demetrius seems to get on very well with Hermia's father Aegeus, so why doesn't he marry him instead? When Shakespeare wrote that, he could never have imagined...
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