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British Prime Minister drops in on Halifax to address sailors on HMS Ark
Royal..... Britain's Naval flagship.
Next week it's the Queen.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...n-halifax.html
Exciting week for anyone interested in naval affairs.

One more item.
The Tattoo will also be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the navy.
Originally, the Queen was supposed to open it, but there was a big kerfuffle
about a staircase she would have to climb.
mmm wonder if she was talking to The Freak?
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1189016.html

I'm much to cultured and refined to listen to that cacophony! Now if it
were and opera, I'd be there in a second.