My god, I just looked in the forums for the first time in months and I can barely even read the threads, because the entire thing is taken up by massive pictures in the signatures. It's just ridiculous, who in hell thought it was a good idea to allow pictures in sigs. It would be better to just allow people to have their own avatars, because people can use their own pictures now anyway, and a personal avatar would be much less distracting than those bloody signatures. And it seem we still haven't got control over our forums, which I'm sure they promised at some point, but have clearly decided against giving us too much power. Ugh, I very rarely come here anymore, the entire site is just getting worse and worse, which might seem impossible, but it's true! I only come here to check my queue now and I used to glance through the forums, but that's become impossible.

Hi everyone, I'm finally back. Sorry to everyone who has submissions waiting, I'll try to get to them sometime soon.
I've had no access to a fast enough computer for this site for about a week and a half as my broadband has been offline and I can't really use this site at school. Plus I've been really busy at school lately what with all the arrangements for the Christmas carol services, fundraising concerts, plays etc. Which as a prefect I have to help organise. As well as the prefect's rendition of Dreaming of a White Christmas at the teacher's Christmas banquet to rehearse for. Anyway, it's all been very hectic, but now the holidays are here I will be able to sort out my queue and get back to work on my guides.

Wow, a hectic day at school today.

The Queen was due to arrive at the school opposite ours at 11 O'clock. So from about 9.30 or 10.00 onwards we had armed policemen swarming about the place, closing the roads, searching all the bins, salt bins, mail boxes, even the flower pots in our school, for bombs or other dangerous devices. We weren't allowed to leave the school from the front entrance, because it is directly opposite where the Queen would be, and there were evern snipers in the buildings around the school! There were also MI5 agents or undercover policemen, looking shifty in large trenchcoats, milling about the place. Rather exciting.

There were barriers erected on our side of the street, where people could watch from, luckily I had a free period and our school has a fence with a large step/wall on our side, so we were all standing there with a brilliant view. The Queen arrived fashionably late (of course) at 11.10ish she got out the Bentley, and gave us on the other side of the street a Royal wave, then proceeded into the school and talked with the assembled people.
And that was my Royal encounter, not much, but I've never seeb the Queen, or in fact any Royal before, so it was rather exciting actually.