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We just stopped here and burnt an effigy of the Archbishop of Canterbury

At least it wasn't a totally wasted afternoon, then.

🙂


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 9:59 pm
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I’m watching the Coronation concert, so far it’s been very enjoyable.

The Lionel Ritchie impersonator was quite good.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:26 pm
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2 fingers up to Anfield with Andrea Bocelli’s number 😉


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:32 pm
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The Lionel Ritchie impersonator was quite good

I spend all that time choosing a dress to wear for our coronation party and bloody Paloma Faith is wearing the same one!


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:35 pm
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2 fingers up to Anfield with Andrea Bocelli’s number

And Celtic.

I like how they crossed over to Dover a couple of times.

Were those drones or tracers as the RN engaged an enemy dinghy?


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:36 pm
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I spend all that time choosing a dress to wear for our coronation party and bloody Paloma Faith is wearing the same one!

How did you both fit? 😳


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:37 pm
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Worth watching just for the drones


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:37 pm
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I only like it when there’s marching and horses.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:49 pm
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anyone else been to a street party ?

Nothing going on up here in kirkcudbright, yesterday the rotary club had a coffee/tea thing up the moat brae in the centre of town (harbour/castle area) with a couple dozen folk but nothing else happening. Three houses wi Union Jack bunting in the high st but they’re holiday houses.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 10:49 pm
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fantastic concert, fantastic weekend so far. long live the king.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:10 pm
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I cycled through a street party. No offer of spinach quiche. Very disappointed.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:32 pm
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I'll second that ton.
I feel a bit sorry for the fun sponges who missed the whole point.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:34 pm
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I feel a bit sorry for the fun sponges who missed the whole point.

I'm laughing at the irony of your post.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:43 pm
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I went for a bike ride yesterday and surfing today. Haven't seen any coverage or the coronation, or any street parties.


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:47 pm
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Really impressed at how Charles kept his composure in the face of probably not knowing who the **** any of those performers were, and not being able to see them anyway due to being three quarters of a mile away from the stage 🙂👍


 
Posted : 07/05/2023 11:52 pm
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Classical music fan apparently, so maybe Take That for him must have been pretty punishing. [Disclaimer - I turned over for the news].


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 12:07 am
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Watched Guardians of the Galaxy 3 yesterday. Did not see any street parties, barely any houses with decorations up tbh.

The protest in Cardiff was pretty big from what I've been told and passers by were supportive.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 1:29 am
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Haven't seen any parties. Drove over to Harrogate to visit The Boy.

Caught the last half hour of the concert, looked pretty decent. Katy Perry in her dress made from Quality Street wrappers, then the newly reformed three fifths of Take That. Mostly I was trying to work out how the hell they'd done the over-stage light show, that was mightily clever.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 2:17 am
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Reporting from the furtherest flung corners of the Empire, the mood was somewhat subdued in Queensland ... presumably as so many were grappling with the concept of changing the name of the state.
Kingsland just doesn't have the same ring to it. Too much like an East End train station.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 2:27 am
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Why would Queensland change its name? It wasn't named after Queen Elizabeth, it was named after RuPaul.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 6:22 am
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... Not Priscilla?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 7:04 am
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No idea what’s been happening where I live as I’m spending the whole weekend in a shop in the dead part of Cambridge City centre. It’s like a ghost town around the Grafton.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 9:26 am
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I can report 100% lack of coronation related activity in my part of Sweden. However, that may be because we already have a king. And I am outside town and working from home. SVT was streaming stuff about Brian's be-hattning, but I was too busy skydiving to a) care and b) worry.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 9:45 am
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Met a Swedish couple at the hotel I stayed in the night before - they had come for a long weekend specifically for the coronation....

The tube was also packed with European teens and twenty-somethings...


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:35 am
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The protest in Cardiff was pretty big from what I’ve been told

I didn't go out and about in Cardiff this weekend but I have seen very little bunting in my local area. I cycled through Caerphilly yesterday and saw only ten houses with bunting or flags, and a couple of businesses. Cowbridge in the other hand, a much more conservative place, had a lots.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:38 am
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The tube was also packed with European teens and twenty-somethings…

Some people are just curious.

TBH had Charlie Boy's nanny put him across her lap and smacked his arse in front of the gates of Buckingham Palace I might have come to watch.

Everyone likes a good spectacle.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:41 am
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The tube was also packed with European teens and twenty-somethings…

When I was on holiday in Rome, I went to see the Pope. Didn't make me a Catholic.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:45 am
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When I was on holiday in Rome, I went to see the Pope.

I'm impressed that he found the time.

Did he know that you're not even a Catholic?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:48 am
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When I was on holiday in Rome, I went to see the Pope. Didn’t make me a Catholic.

Does he make his evacuations in the woods?
Asking for a friend.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:56 am
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I’m impressed that he found the time.

Me too, I'm quite a bit older than the choir boys.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 10:56 am
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Busy as expected here (Windsor). Watched the F1 instead of the concert, but could hear it outside anyway (we’re close to the castle). Town was heaving, big screen and stage on the Long Walk, police everywhere, nice and sunny, what’s not to like? I took the dog for a long walk away from the Long Walk.

I did watch the coronation service jet lagged from a night flying home from the US. Then collected the new car. The culmination of months of deliberations!


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 11:06 am
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Classical music fan apparently...

Many of us are but that doesn't mean we don't like other genres too.

I seem to recall CIIIR many years ago professed to being a fan of Diana Ross.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 12:49 pm
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I seem to recall CIIIR many years ago professed to being a fan of Diana Ross.

And the Three Degrees. Or one of them. Allegedly.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 12:53 pm
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I didn’t go out and about in Cardiff this weekend but I have seen very little bunting in my local area. I cycled through Caerphilly yesterday

Afraid some rogue bunting might get caught in your wheels, or a drunk stepped out in front of you?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 1:01 pm
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Many of us are but that doesn’t mean we don’t like other genres too.

Love classical music and lots of other genres from dance to jazz, funk, classic rock, 80’s pop…

But revival Take That? Come on. Really? Their best song from the first time around was an old disco original 🪩


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 1:26 pm
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Was it all of them, or just the three that are left?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 2:25 pm
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Just the tax cheat ones.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 2:30 pm
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What was going on with Howard’s hair? In fact, what is going on with a lot of guy’s hair at the moment. Is this the frontier of hair-transplant technology we’re witnessing?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 2:48 pm
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Was that Howard? I thought it was Jason.

Was it all of them, or just the three that are left?

As above, whoever that one was plus Gary Barlow and Mark Owen.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 3:22 pm
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Seems you're right.

Group members Gary, Howard and Mark Owen had decided to get back together in 2014 but it was at this point Jason decided to opt out of the latest comeback.

... the former band member is now living a content life away from the limelight with his family in the Cotswolds.

Jason said his decision came as he "didn't want to do music anymore"


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 3:23 pm
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When I was on holiday in Rome, I went to see the Pope. Didn’t make me a Catholic.

So you were just bringing money to their tourist economy?

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I didn’t go out and about in Cardiff this weekend but I have seen very little bunting in my local area. I cycled through Caerphilly yesterday

Afraid some rogue bunting might get caught in your wheels, or a drunk stepped out in front of you?

Needs more recognition.

Can I just confirm - am I the only one who didn't swear allegiance who is left alive, or has the terrible monarchist conspiracy had everyone else arrested and executed?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 3:36 pm
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But revival Take That? Come on. Really?

Fair point. I wouldn't have thanked you for a ticket.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 3:49 pm
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Sat down to watch the concert with open mind - even rubbish music can be good if done well.

Truly awful - every bit of it. Is that all they could drag on to the stage?  Not even B list!  X factor runner ups and 3/5 of a boy band from the 90s….I mean I wasn’t expecting Spike Island but surely a bit of Macca or Mick Jagger, maybe a decent guitarist cranking out God Save the King…funky Nike Rogers and a couple of decent soul singers but not Miss Piggy and some bloke from Cold Feet…it felt like the whole thing had been organised by chatGPT

and drones are not the new fireworks…I know everyone seems to think they are but are they really? I mean I can see some uses for them - maybe a big airborne arrow pointing to the toilets but it seems to be a lot of effort for a kids drawing of an owl.

I did like the guys lighting up the tree with bikes though


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 6:33 pm
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Can I just confirm – am I the only one who didn’t swear allegiance who is left alive, or has the terrible monarchist conspiracy had everyone else arrested and executed?

They probably couldnt find you under all those strawmen you have been deploying.


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 6:40 pm
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Can I just confirm – am I the only one who didn’t swear allegiance who is left alive, or has the terrible monarchist conspiracy had everyone else arrested and executed?

can an AI be alive?


 
Posted : 08/05/2023 6:43 pm
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