Successfully avoided the Royal Wedding last year with a biking trip to North Wales. Was thinking about going to the jubilee protest - but it's not really avoiding it - how is everybody else avoiding it?
http://www.jubileeprotest.org.uk
I shall be riding my bicycle in the woods / hills somewhere.
By living somewhere else, just got to avoid the ex-pat haunts over the weekend
At my place of employment.
I'll bouncing around to 3 days (& nights) of repetitive beats, at Cosmo Festival in Taunton. 😀
By going to a street party with my family and neighbours and having a great day in the sun...oops i forgot STW dont like that sort of thing... carry on...
Beer festival. 🙂
Shall be watching some of it
Tweed Love
street party here too. no big fan of the Queen, but the last one we had (the wedding) was ace. closed the road, kids playing out on the road for the first time ever, got to meet loads of cool people who happen to be neighbours and got quite, quite drunk.
specialguys ride on sunday, wedding planning monday, notsospecialguys ride on tuesday.
4 day weekend = lovely
monday: bike ride with mates to the pub for hog roast
tuesday: road ride (probably)
wednesday: mtb ride all day; to include pub lunch and beer on the way home.
thursday: chilled day - night ride in the evening, pint or two after.
seeing a theme here...
going into town, chatting with neighbours and enjoying the community atmosphere rather than living in my own grumpy bubble of loathing and hate.
not really, I'll probably be painting my bathroom and fixing the leak in the roof in between changing nappies and going coochy-coo.
I have a bike and hike weekend planned. You may well want to avoid the mainstream TV and radio as it will be saturated by the jubilympic farce.
By being in India!
Royal wedding last year was a normal working day, the jubilee will be too.
Won't be as good as the last jubilee weekend though, when it coincided with the world cup DH in Ft William - 2 days of watching practice/racing followed by 2 days of chairlift assisted riding 8)
Cheers, Rich
The kids' nursery is still open (hurray!) so me and t'wife are dumping the little monsters then going for a walk in the hills and a spot of lunch.
Enjoy whatever you do. I appreciate that for some, the joy that the majority will gain from celebrating the monarchy and specifically the Diamond Jubilee will be challenging to bear. But good luck anyway!
Off to the Loire Valley.... 8)
By not watching the telly - same as every other weekend.
Going to Mimizan and Bordeaux for a 9 day surf, stag and wedding trip.
I'd have liked to see my 5 year old neice doing her thing in her motorcycle display tem in Hyde Park though.
Scotland
[i]Attention seeking fannies[/i]
+1. Hippy wierdos.
the joy that the majority will gain from celebrating the monarchy and specifically the Diamond Jubilee will be challenging to bear.
That's if you believe that the majority still celebrate having a monarchy.
Better to protest than be one of the doe-eyed, drool-chinned, unthinking worshippers of royalty. At least in North Korea they have a good reason for participating, they get shot if they don't. What is our excuse for making ourselves a national embarrassment yet again?
Attention seeking fannies+1. Hippy wierdos.
Why the hostility?
Skye.
I'll be quite surprised to see any red white and blue. 🙂
I'm planning a careful balance putting in an appearance at the street parties but being careful not to join in so much I don't get enjoy 4 days of biking.
There's going to be a huge party on the village square up the road with a hog roast, fireworks, beer tent, tug o war, etc, etc - why would you want to avoid that?! (unless it pisses it down of course!) There should be a jubilee every month!
Sunday, no kids, so will spend most of it horizontal (preferably with the future Mrs rogg).
Monday, cleaning the idle control valve on the track day motor in time for Cadwell the following week, the air will be blue.
Tuesday, kids again, might have a Grand Day Out to Swanage if the weather looks good
Wednesday, as Tuesday.
Thursday, back to work, having successfully avoided all things royal.
I'm quite glad to see lots of celebrations and red white and blue around... Finally people are feeling happy to be patriotic....should be a jubilee and Olympics every year
Miserable gunts can chuff off
Saturday: Getting laid, go surf.
Sunday: riding bikes whilst the potential future Mrs Spoon coos over her friends baby
Monday: check wellies for pin holes, then repeat Saturday, go surf.
Tuesday: Repeat monday, say goodbye to the missus, go ride bike or surf.
I'm quite glad to see lots of celebrations and red white and blue around... Finally people are feeling happy to be patriotic....should be a jubilee and Olympics every yearMiserable gunts can chuff off
+1 , I'm not avoiding celebrating, just have better things to do
the same way I avoid every other national celebration/sporting event/wendyball contest - by going for a bike ridehow is everybody else avoiding it?
I'll be out on the bike wearing red, white and blue.
But mainly because they're the colours of my club jersey....
I'm going to Peru to walk the inca trail. Then spending 4 days mountain biking in the sacred valley. 🙂
What is our excuse for making ourselves a national embarrassment yet again?
Four Day Weekend!
Go ride your bike, or to a street party or be a miserable tool.
There's going to be a huge party on the village square up the road with a hog roast, fireworks, beer tent, tug o war, etc, etc - why would you want to avoid that?!
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If it gets more people visiting our fab wee island (and spending their hard earned),then I am all for it.
and as houns suggests ....
Miserable gunts can chuff off
🙂
What is our excuse for making ourselves a national embarrassment yet again?
how can the nation be a national embarrassment?
Nothing Jubilee related, going to view some houses with the OH, night out at a pub quiz and some live music on the Sunday and getting in a couple of rides.
I'm no fan of the monarchy but I won't sniff at the extra days off work - anyway, if we didn't have this bunch unelected Royal bunch of elitist toffs we'd have President Cameron, who is.....oh wait, an unelected elitist toff!
We should have a national day every year. Make sure the shops are shut are we can all get together as a country.
I think there should be a jubilee every day. it might just remind everyone as they wave a little plastic union jack that the 1000 richest people in the UK - of which the Queen happens to be one - are £150bn better off between them since the banking crisis of 2008.
Just to put that into perspective, our glorious figurehead and her chums could between them clear the deficit that the condems are clearing by sacking you and your neighbours and still be £70m better off [b]each[/b] than they were in 2008.
God bless you M'am, we're all in this together.
I'm hoping to pop out on my bike sometime over the weekend.
I may wear my old Royal Air Force CC jersey, just to irritate the republicans a little.
the 1000 richest people in the UK - of which the Queen happens to be one - are £150bn better off between them since the banking crisis of 2008.Just to put that into perspective, our glorious figurehead and her chums could between them clear the deficit that the condems are clearing by sacking you and your neighbours and still be £70m better off each than they were in 2008.
God bless you M'am, we're all in this together.
i just stole that and posted it on facebook 🙂 interesting factoid!
i'm not fussed about the queen, she hasn't really ever held me up on a trail or broken into my house and covered it in post-it notes so she's not in my bad books. 4 day weekend will be nice and if people are generally in a happier mood than normal cos of their love for the queen or their love for time away from work then i'm cool with it 🙂
