Tiddly prom

[julesjones]

Now that's what I call an excellent Saturday night to mark the start of autumn. Friend came round for dinner, which was a most excellent takeaway from the local Turkish restaurant, consumed in front of Last Night of the Proms.

As ever, lots of fun, complete with the traditions of streamers being thrown over the orchestra and the surreal sight of a variety of not-British flags being cheerfully waved in time to Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory. Never, ever, change, Prommers.

Comments

[kalypso]

Or, a lion rampant sable seems to be Flanders... Belgium has it the other way round (sable, a lion rampant or). Odd.

[jhall1]

I enjoyed it too, though I find that it's not quite as gripping as it was in the old days before they started cutting away to the Proms in the Park. Doing that somehow seems to "lose focus".

Even an old reactionary like me has to concede that not all change is bad, though. I think it's only in the last ten years or so that the audience singing "Old Lang Syne" at the end has come in, and I think that works really well.

I don't recall hearing that Benjamin Britten arrangement of the National Anthem before; I thought it was fantastic.