Oh dear, I'm quite tearful now! Some of our neighbours have just come over and given us big hugs and said they wished that we'd been at the party. When we explained that we would have felt hypocritical, being Republicans, they said that it makes absolutely no difference as they aren't that into the royal family anyway, so where off out get the adults' party going. If previous village parties are anytghing to go by, this will probably be going very late into the night.