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What I remember really about the day was the street party that we had in the rain.

I remember trestle tables with lots of sandwiches and jelly and that sort of thing, and then they arranged some games and races for the children and that was my downfall.

I was in one of the races in the rain, running along quite happily, when a neighbour's dog decided to join in, raced along and jumped up and bit me on the bum.

I don't think it was a particularly bad bite because I was wearing a plastic mackintosh at the time and its teeth only just got through, but my mum and dad decided that I needed to have a tetanus injection and they took me up to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital which was quite near to us.

I had the indignity of having a tetanus injection in my bum, and when I got back from that the street party was all finished and I didn't get to receive my coronation mug.

So some good and some bad memories about Coronation Day.

You asked if I had any pets when I was growing up.

I had two.

I had a rabbit.

It was black and we called it Chasey because it was always escaping from its pen and we had to chase it around the garden.

It was not very popular with my grandad because he loved his garden and a rabbit chasing around and eating things was not very popular.

And one day I came back from school to find that Chasey had disappeared and been taken to a wonderful farm somewhere I was told.

But we did have an awful lot of rabbit casserole that night, I think.