Not bad for a lady in her 80s?

A lot was written recently about the Olympic Torch being presented to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Quite sensibly for security reasons, what we did not see was the leg through Windsor Great Park when her maj donned the White Tracksuit of State and held the torch aloft for an impressive 200 yard stretch. As she commented after: "one has to do what one can to entertain one's subjects and earn one's allowance". Go, Liz, Go! Gawd bless her - she's an inspiration to everyone of us.

And that's not all; one lucky person will benefit permanently from the event as a new post of Royal Torch Flunky has been created to allow the iconic cone to feature in all future state occasions. It makes me proud to be British.