My sister is excited because she is organising a street party in honour of the Queens platinum jubilee.
It is refreshing to see her so animated and her enthusiasm is both endearing and contagious.
It has been a trying few years for Her Majesty, with the throughly salacious and tabloid Internet TV show The Crown and also a bereavement but she endured all this with a stoic dignity that has been a beacon that's united this country through its bleakest times.
My sister says even her anti royal neighbours are getting into the spirit of things. Such is the inspirational power of our great Monarch that even the most sour faced and swivel eyed can - at least temporarily - suspend their anti social attitudes.