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Summer Let Down

 The weather is hot.  Humid in some places.  Summer has arrived but not the dog days yet.  The great Jubilee is over with mostly joy, celebration, some unity and very little disruptive other.   But now, not a lot of big events on the horizon.  Ascot.  Check.  Wimbledon - almost 2 weeks.  Check.  These are big but also normal events scheduled year after year.  Routine.  Everyone knows the drill.  Nothing like the levels of people and planning for the Jubilee. We are seeing or rather not seeing the Queen attending more and more "events".  That's a big change.  And, one which appears to portend the future. In the Kubler Ross stages of death, one of them is bargaining.  I want to live to see ...  X.  Or Y.  One last time for ... and then, I feel I can ...  After one of my grandmothers passed, my grandfather made it through his birthday, her birthday and then,  a week after the wedding anniversary, he passed on.  So I think of bargaining more and more now that the super big ev