The weather is getting cooler and windier as we go north. Our friends, Mike and Lito, from the Isla of Wight brought me an email sent to them from a friend in England that is a spoof of a declaration by the Queen of England revoking Americas declaration of independence and containing 16 articles of requirements such as driving on the left, elimination of intersections and replacing them with roundabouts, abolishing baseball and American football and replacing them with cricket and rugby, adding the letter u to words like harbor and labor, and abolishing congress but after a year sending out a questionnaire to see if anyone noticed.
They said that if we supported this we Chris and I would become Duke and Duchess of North Dakota and be given a free snow mobile; we refused the offer claiming it was insufficient recognition and insisted Archduke and Duchess of all Dakotas was the minimum acceptable. At dinner the head waiter came over with an invitation sent by guess who, to our investiture as Duke and Duchess at Buckingham Palace on June 14th, which is when the Queen celebrates her birthday.
As a result, I created a declaration of regrets typed in Gothic letters enumerating our problems with this declaration and offered many alternatives, such as forming an international commission to merge cricket and baseball and name it crickball or baseit.
We’ll see what happens next.
Other than that the day was uneventful, I went to a piano recital in the afternoon and we went to the theater after dinner to see the Welsh comedian again along with a young pianist/vocalist who did a great job playing rock and roll and pop songs in the style of Jerry Lee Lewis.
On to Hong Kong.
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