Jets over Central London?

Never mind. It's the Queen's birthday. (and I didn't get her anything!)

Again?

Hey! Get back to the beach!

through my very basic grasp of maths, ive worked out that you actually gave her 83p this year.

• £47 million a year in tax money given to the Royals. and 55million people or so who pay tax (just a guess)
  

Prince Philip making an ass of himself is worth every penny.

Ahh, so that's what it was. Sounded like WW3 had broken out.

according to tradition one of the pilots - usually the most recently-qualified - flies to a small Paris airstrip in the morning, where he is given a large wooden box containing the Queen's birthday cake (it's baked and iced by Maxim's). He then straps it into a special compartment on the underside of the plane and flies as fast as is safe back to the Hertfordshire base where the rest of his RAF team are waiting. Then and only then are the squadron given clearance to fly, in formation, to London, whereupon the rookie pilot skydives out with the cake into the gardens of Buckingham Palace, hand-delivering it to the Queen as the rest of the gathered Royals applaud and cheer.

The whole operation costs the taxpayer about 17 pence, small change for a happy Queen.

I have been lead to believe that fossil fuel is a dwindling commodity.

Obviously not.

Awesome fly-past today, RAF's 90th anniversary so a lot of planes went over... I was with my lady and another Brisbanite who were mightily impressed (in an endearingly over-excited, touristy way)... They even got to see the Queen, tho' I'm a Republican so I just scowled and got the forks out...
Red Arrows are in the USA so no red, white and blue smoke... Someone's gonna get their arse kicked for that! ;)

Birthday???

I thought she was dead.
Or is that treason?

Toodle pip.