'THE ENVIRONMENTAL KING'S FLYPAST HAS FLOWN OVER MY ROOF, COUGH, COUGH!' JUNE 15TH 2024

Yes Indeed The King's Flypast Is Over My Roof…And Every Year. And I'm Never Prepared!
"They're Here! Get Your Phone Red-EEEEEE!!" My Aunt Hollered From The Kitchen.
What On Earth. It Had Been Raining Sheets For An Hour Earlier. What Did She Mean Get My Phone?
Before The Next Word Crossed My Mind The Sound, THAT Incomparable, Tearing, Thunder, Filled The Sky, Was Inside Our Heads, And Shaking The Building. Every Nerve And Fibre Rattled Within. And My Spirit Left My Body! Everyone Living On The Top Floor, Along The Flypast Path Route, Will Attest To This Physical Experience. It Conjures Images Of Wars. An Aircraft Nose-Diving Toward….Your House! And You're At The Stove Stirring Soup, Smelling Of Onions, Hair A Mess, In Bad House Clothes. You Won't Leave A Beautiful Corpse.
Then The Magnificent Steel Glimmering Against The Sun's Rays Past Overhead. So Close, We Could Touch Them. One After The Other. Fast At First, Then Slowly, As If In Slow Motion. Is It Really So?
They Slow Down Enough For You To Imagine You're In The 1940s Watching Your Heroes Flying Away. As The Residents Who Once Lived In These Homes Once Did.
What Am I Saying Though?
I'm Saying That I Find These Aircraft Beautiful, Stunning Even. But It Hasn't Past My Notice That If The King Speaks Of The Environment, Then What Is This That Fills The Sky Above Our Heads? His Silence To This Question Would No Doubt Be Profound.