The Dad you can likely guess.
Betty is Betty Windsor. Call me a crazy traditionalist, but somehow Liz seems wrong as a short form of her kinda roundabout Canadian title:
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God
of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen,
Head of the Commonwealth,
Defender of the Faith
Me, I would have moved “Queen” ahead of the list of countries of which she is Queen, but no one asked.
Anyway, today is Betty’s 92nd birthday. My father would have been 96. As a 30-something smart aleck he convinced a Sunday-School-ful of little kids that the 21-gun salute on the grounds of the Alberta Legislature on this date was actually for him.
So here’s to both of them on this, their birth days. Blam blam.
Dad with Mom, not Betty, c. 1956
Betty and Phil, 1959
Very nice.
Thanks. 🙂
Betty?
Tom
Tom – Just our house name for Her Majesty. We lean to the informal.
What a lovely way to salute Grandad!
Heather – Thanks!
Isabel
By the way, I’m not objecting; I just found it cute. I assume one holds up a white glove in one hand when it’s being said.
Tom
Tom – It’s funny-odd, I think, that using a nickname for the Queen seems so wrong. Rather like wondering what was Jesus favourite food. I only realize that I’m not thinking of these people as real people when I do something like that and see how peculiar it feels.
I’m not sure which parts of this post are the traditionalist and which parts are the iconoclast, but both are needed.
Laurna – LOL. I was also unsure of where to draw the line.
Didn’t know that was when your dad’s birthday was. But, I can imagine him with a twinkle in his eye claiming the 21 gun salute.
Alison – Oh, for sure. He greatly enjoyed misdirecting a whole generation . . .
Happy Birthday in honour of your Dad. And today, Sunday, is Eardley’s birthday. As well as being Earth Day; he enjoyed sharing that. Lizzie I am never sure about, but I hope she had a happy birthday.
Judith – Well, then, here’s to Eardley, too. Blam blam blam.