This morning the Prime Minister's office posted a picture of Larry the cat, sitting outside a bunting-adorned Number 10.

My first thought was "I hope that bunting was made in the UK". Hopefully it was made by someone like Amazing Bunting ("the UK's largest manufacturer of bunting and hand flags"). As it happens I called this company up yesterday to ask how trade was ahead of the upcoming Diamond Jubilee weekend.

The firm's Siu Chong was obviously someone who barely had time to answer the phone "bunting has just gone mad" she told me breathlessly. I quickly hung up in order to free the line for incoming bunting orders.

By the sounds of it a fair few of this weekend's street parties will also be graced by a lifesized cardboard cut-out of the Queen (sold out at presentfinder.co.uk) and I imagine Mask-arade will have been having a busy time of it too. Bet the Duchess of Cambridge is a bestseller.

A large-format print specialist also told me that retail orders for Jubilee promos had picked up more than anticipated (my local Morrisons has a banner outside for a special offer involving a prodigious amount of burgers and buns, and a free bottle of tomato ketchup thrown in).

Magazines such as Country Life have put out bumper pagination special issues, and this weekend's newspapers are bound to be stuffed with special supplements too.

And per this week's news, we know that Service Graphics has produced the most enormous 'banner' to adorn Sea Containers house alongside the route of the upcoming Thames Pageant.

Despite the disruption and cost of the extra bank holiday, I'm hoping the Jubilee boost to print will be actually be pretty widespread.  That really would be a reason to put the flags out.