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Friday 29th April if you don't already know.
Apart from an all day mountain bike ride anybody got any ideas / plans to avoid the whole thing or have you already got your Union Jacks and picked a spot on the Mall?
I will spend some time with a princess Diana lookalike hooker.
I shall be building a replica Guillotine in my garden and recreating the last days of the French Monarchy...
...or i might just ride my bike!
weve got an etape warm up weekend on that date 😉
SSEC that weekend
I'll be somewhere. Probably riding southwards from Scotland back to Slumberset then Kernow.
I'll be on the road bike - with most of country watching the telly, there should be fewer cars on the roads and a good day for a bit of stiffback delight.
Going to coed y brenin for 4 days mountain biking with the lads on the 29th :D, not interested in the wedding at all.
Fly out to Denver for a few weeks a few days before.
SSEC for me.
I can't wait - I love the Royals me, I have already ordered loads of bunting and I am organising a street party.
And that Prince Harry is a right looker - she's done good to get him.
Camping! And drinking! And riding! Bliss
Fly out to Denver for a few weeks a few days before.
That's a bit drastic, no?
For Diana and Carlos I was just finishing a section on the Pennine Way on Hadrians Wall then listening to the cricket. To this day I've not seen more than about 5 seconds of footage. 😆
I doubt if there'll be much coverage over here, so quite safe.
I did watch Leticia and Felipe for the simple reason it was raining on the day and I didn't want to go out, and going out was difficult as they used a church about 500m from my flat and getting out and about was difficult.
I'm looking forward to it, got me a new frock and hat and everthing...
Neils - you can come to my street party - bring some pop and trifle.
I'll be hoping to find one of my customers that will let me work
I will be on holiday in Cyprus @ Aphrodite hills where i shall be throwing rocks at the golfers from the safety of a luxury front line villa 😛
SSEC for me
I've been invited to the wedding of a close friend. Can't really say no to him.
Neils - you can come to my street party - bring some pop and trifle.
😀
I'll bring the union jack buntings.!
I will be road riding in Portugal.
Long ride somewhere.
cycleworlduk I read that as "you've got a tape worm up that weekend"! 😯
I'm not going to avoid it, can't say it's of enough interest to me either way to seek it out or avoid it. It'll be happening, I'll be doing whatever it is that I do.
Driving up and down my street slowly thus preventing any chance of a 'street party' to celebrate the union of an inbred with an airhead paid for by a bankrupt country that would rather spend millions on security , pomp and ceremony for a parasitic extended family than keep libraries in deprived areas open.
I shall be on my way to Belgium for some ss doo
I'm mainly having birthday celebrations that day.... and a free day off work. Bless you m'lady, good choice 😉
i'm leading the STW/NW Alps bluebell ride that day, we may however gatecrash the planned party in the village park and the over 18's version in the village club on the evening
i booked the 3 days off between the bank hols and the wedding so have a clear 11 days off for the price of 3 8)
thinking about the french revolution!
Does anyone else actually wish them well?
I'm not particularly fussed about the royal family and wouldn't consider myself any sort of staunch monarchist, but republicans often seem so bitter and twisted.
Young helicopter pilot (who in common with you, I and everyone else is a hapless contestant in the genetic lottery) marries young woman. Until the footage emerges of them stabbing kittens for pleasure, I'm happy that they're happy.
no- I wish them nothing but a shitstorm. Reads like this to me- spoilt rich kid who has never worked a day in his life and has never wanted for anything finds someone who thinks being born into a family makes him a catch, then decides to have a multi million pound wedding paid for by me (and you) and who will then live in a palace paid for by me (and you). On top of which I must now have a day off or I'll have no childcare. Then we'll have the constant 'isn't she lovely' crap we had for the other one and in 3 or 4 years time when she realises he is wetter than an otters pocket she'll be pictured leaving a mayfair nightclub with a rich playboy and we'll have the inevitable 'fall from grace' media storm. Pox on them all.
bravohotel8er - Member
"Does anyone else actually wish them well?"
Not especially. They'll get a gilded life out of my pocket regardless of my wishes, that's more than I'll ever get from them so they can get on with it with "only" that. I don't wish them harm or sadness either though.
We'll be in France for the whole of the bank holiday.'I wish them well though, they both seem very sweet, especially her and it's been a long time coming. For all the money in the world it sometimes doesn't bring you happiness and I bet he'd give it all up tomorrow to have his mum back. I also hope they have a baby in 2013 as what with the queens 85th next year it might mean three years of an additional bank holiday a year 🙂
I will be returning that date from doing the Camino de Santiago, the return leg from Gard du Nord gets in to St Pancras and right into the thick of the hoolie 😕
Reckon I might be cycling across to Paddington to get home if the Tube is all fubar!
I wish them well, but I wish most people well. Not remotely interested in anything to do with their wedding though, people I don't know get married all the time and I'm not interested in them either. FTR I'll use the time to get loads of my diploma written and ride my bike - and with not having a TV I'll be able to avoid all the fuss just fine.
[i]Driving up and down my street slowly thus preventing any chance of a 'street party' to celebrate the union of an inbred with an airhead paid for by a bankrupt country that would rather spend millions on security , pomp and ceremony for a parasitic extended family than keep libraries in deprived areas open.[/i]
i like your style and agree with your motivation
Me too
The papers were running stories the other week as it was her last birthday as 'a commoner' before she gets married.
So much for the classless society we apparently have.
lets organise a mass ride on the day then- show the world we're not all royalists. Anyone?
It's the same day as my birthday - so I get a free day off. Bosh!
I'll be riding probably.
Off for a week in yorkshire cycling with the lads
Fly out to Denver for a few weeks a few days before.
[i]That's a bit drastic, no?[/i]
sounds like a good idea to me. If I had the money I'd be off to Vancouver
I hope the person whining about Wills being a useless rich kid who's never done a days work has an accident in the hills and calls out a rescue chopper then turns it down 'cos Wills piloting it.
Personally I'd say that being an Air-sea rescue pilot is about as good a job of work as you can get.
At least this is a happy occasion and I get a day off. Thankfully I was in France and missed all the hysteria about Diana.
I hope the person whining about Wills being a useless rich kid who's never done a days work has an accident in the hills and calls out a rescue chopper then turns it down 'cos Wills piloting it.
Personally I'd say that being an Air-sea rescue pilot is about as good a job of work as you can get.
+1. I was going to point that out but you beat me to it!
On the other hand I don't care one way or the other about the wedding. I'm working in Scotlandshire over Easter, I've booked the 3 days in between Easter and the wedding/BH off work so I'll just stay up there, go riding, maybe do a bit of island hopping up the west coast. Hopeing that with Easter being so late I'll get good weather and not many midges!
Will be in Belgium for SSEC.
Hopefully they won't have a drunken French chauffeur and there are no tunnels to go through on the way from St. Pauls to the village hall for the night do...
no tape worm here.....get your eyes checked or ease up on the drinking? 😆
hope the person whining about Wills being a useless rich kid who's never done a days work has an accident in the hills and calls out a rescue chopper then turns it down 'cos Wills piloting
How do you think he got the training and the job? You reckon he applied? No, he got given it the same as his house, his cars, his horses,etc. and at the expense of someone not lucky enough to be born into royalty. As for the 'they've done no harm to me' argument you could apply that to Fred West , next time you pay 20% vat on something, or have to wait 18 months to get a routine operation done, or call an ambulance and have to wait an hour all due to budget cuts then think about who is actually paying for the wedding and the life of privilege and luxury.Its a question or priorities and I want a better country for my kids more than I want to pay for these lot.
William having a horse makes ambulances late?
Looks like I will be on an open canoe exped in the north west of scotland, camping and avoiding all probable royal coverage and keeping an eye on a DofE group 🙂
SSEC
ridingscared + 1. The royals are sponging parasites, he's got some token job handed to him.
CountZeroI hope the person whining about Wills being a useless rich kid who's never done a days work has an accident in the hills and calls out a rescue chopper then turns it down 'cos Wills piloting it.
You may have a long wait he'll probably be out on a Jolly (Being paid for by us of course)
The Ministry of Defence and Clarence House faced a public relations disaster after it became known that William had used a £9,000 training flight on April 11 to pick up his brother, Prince Harry, in London and fly to the Isle of Wight to attend the party for his cousin Peter Philips.It emerged in the following days that he had also practised landings in a field owned by the parents of his girlfriend, Kate Middleton, used a helicopter flight to get to a wedding in Northumberland, and flown over Highgrove during his attachment to RAF Odiham, Hants,
Clarence House was dismayed by the disclosures and the Prince of Wales was kept informed
I'm getting married that weekend much to relief of my mates, as I don't live in the UK and they're all coming out this way.
I'll probably spend the day in Spain.
I'll just go into work.
well i was struggling with what to do but work have now solved it by removing the promised bank holiday and instead calling it a normal work day
Seriously? This is the sort of thing you choose to get worked up about? We pay 69p each per year for the royal family - but the fact that we can't afford everything we want to lay our grubby hands on is all their fault?
I'm probably going to spend the day sorting out my garden, might go for a cheeky ride, or head to the pub with a few friends. If I'm around the house I may flick the telly on to see a little bit of history happen*. If I do watch any of it, I'll probably be reminded of my own wedding day, remember how much I enjoyed that, and think that the two of them are likely to be enjoying their wedding day too.
*after all, history is all about kings and queens and stuff...
Probably be working, but will try to sneak a ride in just to stick it to the pair of sponging parasitic scumbags.
🙂
our work has said we can have a day off, but not necessarily that day. I suspect there will be a demand for operational cover so I'll go in and take say, Monday off.
Seriously? This is the sort of thing you choose to get worked up about? We pay 69p each per year for the royal family - but the fact that we can't afford everything we want to lay our grubby hands on is all their fault?
I suppose you could say that about all tax payers money, like the MP expenses scandal, Quangos wasting tax payers money, the actual cost per person was only minuscule, why worry about it? I'd think the £40m could be better spent elsewhere.
Can't say I have sleepless nights and get overly worked up over it, I do have a view about it though. 😉
Ive taken advantage of the free day off and riding the LEJOG!
I just got my invitation through the post this morning.
I hope I catch the bouquet!
I seem to remember going up Kinder Scout with my dad on the day Charles and Di got wed. Thinking of doing the same with my boys this time 🙂
Ha ha I've just checked I'm in deepest, darkest Sardinia! With a bit of luck I'll miss the whole thing!!! 😀
