Please don't take from my comment above that I'm anti- all of this. I feel, as another commentator has said, like someone who isn't a sports fan feels during the build-up to a big game. I'm aware it's happening, it just doesn't really affect me.

I've been listening to it on the radio, after all, and my other favourite comment was from a little girl at a street party in Scotland. Asked how long the Queen had been on the throne, she answered, very slowly, clearly, and confidently: "Eight. Hundred. Years."