The Levees, God Bless ‘Em! – Sunday column, January 9, 2011
The queue began on Barrington Street, snaked down the driveway past four busby-topped Scots Guards and vanished into Government House. The crowd was cheerful and colourful – military officers encrusted with gold braid and medals, young couples towing velvet-clad little girls and toting swaddled babies, elegant toffs in striped pants and swallow-tailed jackets, stout Scots with swirling kilts, matrons in mink, and Knights of Columbus sporting satin robes of crimson, gold, emerald and azure.
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