Royal Wedding

Yesterday I was so incredibly proud to be british the wedding of the queens grandson, Prince William to his beautiful bride Kate Middleton was enough to warm even the coolest of hearts!

We do pomp and circumstance better than any other country could hope for! It was great to see the diversity of the crowd in London and all those celebrating at street parties all over the country. No one was excluded we shared our happiness with all.

I went into work as there have been so many bank holidays recently that I needed to go in to make sure we don't end up with a backlog of patients waiting for discharge. When we can't get people who are ready out of hospital we start to run into significant problems. We are only a small hospital so it doesn't take much, it's really important to keep the hospital moving, I'm the discharge liaison sister for the whole hospital and so I went in yesterday to try and ensure smooth service. There is also part of me that felt it would be nice to share in the wedding with other staff and patients. I wasn't disappointed! Nurses do comaradery very well, and by nature of our ageing population most of our patients are advancing in age and tend to be traditional. The hospital put on bucks fizz and a special lunch with union jack napkins, the wedding was on every tv in every ward in the hospital and there was a real buzz of excitement and patriotism.

I got on with my work as normal but did take time as Kate arrived at the abbey to stand with my colleagues and the patients and watch her walk up the aisle to her prince. Her dress was beautiful and she looked every bit the princess! I had said in the morning when I'd dropped smallest off with my in laws that I wasn't interested. But I have to admit to being spellbound and having goosepimples when William told Kate she looked beautiful when she reached him at the alter. I am a hopeless romantic and there is no denying it!!

I was really disappointed this morning to see an acquaintance's status on Facebook she is British but lives in Canada. She said she wouldn't watch the wedding or come back because Britain isn't Britain anymore because we "let anyone in". I am quite a tolerate person but racism makes me sick and so I have deleted her from my friends list. I am proud to be british and I believe our diversity is part of what makes us British!

I know the new Duke and Dutchess don't have time to read silly little blogs but you never know so I pass on my congratulations and wish them a happy, healthy life together xx