Happy Birthday, Queenie!

Monday, 12 June is a public holiday here in Australia. It's not actually the birthday of the current queen... she turned 80 months ago, as evidenced by the pictures in the papers of her riding bareback on a horse and wearing big, silver "80" sunglasses. But I guess this day is a day to honour all queens, much like how they lumped Lincoln's birthday and Washington's birthday into "President's Day" and made it a public holiday in the US. "President's Day" sounds so much like "Secretary's Day"... so who takes the President out to lunch on President's Day? And does he get flowers when he gets to the Oval Office? Come to think of it, does he take all his secretaries in the Cabinet to lunch on Secretary's Day? If so, how do they decide who gets to pick the restaurant?
Bush: "Let's do Mexican!"
Rumsfeld: "Uh, not a good time, Mr. President... plus we did Mexican last year."
Condoleeza: "I just want a panini."

However they decide, I'm sure Tony Blair and Queen Elizabeth had a pleasant lunch today. Probably fish and chips or a curry, I'd imagine.