Street Parties for the Royal Wedding
It says on Yahoo news that only one in three councils have recieved applications to be able to host street parties to mark the Royal Wedding.
My eldest aunt mentioned one she and my grandparents participated in. It was surprising how they managed to get food for them considering a lot of food was still rationed. But my aunt said they had saved ration coupons for a while to help.
Anyone on here participating in one? I know my end of my road won't be because right opposite us, is a building site where they're building new houses and trucks with bricks, cider blocks and scaffolding need constant access.
My eldest aunt mentioned one she and my grandparents participated in. It was surprising how they managed to get food for them considering a lot of food was still rationed. But my aunt said they had saved ration coupons for a while to help.
Anyone on here participating in one? I know my end of my road won't be because right opposite us, is a building site where they're building new houses and trucks with bricks, cider blocks and scaffolding need constant access.
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/rant off lol :p
Really?! Unlucky.. Just about everyone I know has that day off..
Because of the proximity of the bank holiday days, a lot of people I know have seized the opportunity to just book an extra few days off work and basically have almost a 2 week holiday. The motorways & airports could be busy. My local street will probably be deserted!
yeah im a civil servant, so we all just get an extra days annual leave.
I'm not calling for the removal of the monarchy, I'm just tired of the assumption that everyone has to give a toss about whatever the media chooses to focus on. Maybe a royal wedding should be significant, but really I'd like to see a lot less fuss made over the weddings of certain foul-mouthed/abusive/alcoholic/rapist (take your pic) over-valued non-entity celebrity so that events we could take some national pride in are a little more special.
I want a new house with a cider block...
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I'm happy about the kraut family that only happens to have lots of money/land/fame because their family stole/raped/pillaged/bought stuff many, many, MANY years ago as i get the day off !
So because of that i shall have a drink in honour of them !
I'm not surprised theres not tons of street parties etc, we didnt have one when it was Charles and Di. Times have changed, back during the Queens years the oldies loved doing stuff like that, now most of us dont. We're in a recession, times are difficult, its great to have the day off but i'm not going over the top and cooking some pie for the neighbours and putting it on a table in the middle of the road
At the end of the day Zeropolis, nothing is stopping you from organising some barbeque or that in your house and inviting the neighbours
this is the reason the NHS have to work that day. :p
There isn't much of a community in my 'block'.. Far end is the local gossip queen and her Mel-the-Bell type son, next to her is a DIY fanatic, next to him, I don't know, next to him was an old bloke but he's in a home and his son sold the house (just got to wait for the new neighbours to come), next to that house is me, next to us is the Addams Family (they interbreed cats, very anti-social and they like accusing people (particuly us) of trying to steal their cats), next to them is some cat mad woman, next to her is another empty house because the old woman who lived there died a few weeks ago and the next two after that, I don't know, never met them.
your such a curtain twitcher. :p
You should hear what they say about Zeropolis ! ;)
Oh come on ! Future king of england, i'm no royalty nut but i know its a 'biggie'
nah guesser is right, they should have just gone to a registry office then had the reception at a brewsters. :razz:
No, the future future king of England maybe ;)
Oh and he might crash his helicopter, then Harry would be the future king, so we'd better have a party for him too. Oh but what if he freezes to death at the North Pole, better have a street party for whoever the next obscure cousin is :)
rofl.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have a big fancy wedding... Just that no-one has to actually care about two rich kids getting hitched. It's hardly something that merits a big party unless you actually know them imo :)
No one has to care but plenty do. When it was the queens anniversary on the throne a few years back they werent going to have a big hoopla about it but they were surprised how many people actually cared and were there.
Its a huge event, you or others might not be keen but its huge, will generate a ton for the economy as well as many overseas tourists love all of this and will come over for it. We've got a day off, its all good.
We dont know any famous film stars/musicians/someone who was an extra in Dr Who but people still 'mourn' them and create threads about their passing etc.
Just enjoy having a day off and stop moaning ;)
Well, the elderly neighbour who is now in a home thought of us more as family than his own family. When his wife died about 6 or 7 years ago, they were leeching on the poor bloke wanting what his wife had left them. And they don't normally care..
The Addams Family is very weird.. One of their cats kept coming over to our house because she didn't like the way she was treated and that's what caused the whole trouble. We kept taking her back.
The only reason I know the second from the end is a DIY fanatic because I had to borrow a drill last month and he needed it back in a rush because he was repairing the roof of his extension.
The gossip queen shares her gossip with anyone who will listen to her even though it drives them mad. Her Mel-the-Bell son will try it with any woman - he's tried it with my niece (even though at the time, she was only eighteen and three of my sister-out-laws). And they did find our elderly cat when she got knocked over and looked after the girls while we took her to the vets.
I'm imagining the beginnings of a new TV sitcom set in Gosport..! :razz:
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Back to the topic at hand, I'm happy for Prince William but when people are having to tighten their belts, is encouraging street parties and having half the world's leaders in attendence such a good idea? Yes, it means money to help rebuild the enconomy and I'm all for that..
My question is, would any WOS members participate or arrange such a party?
I don't care at all, and I'm from England, why the hell would the entire population of the USA even blink an eye at this event? The resentment towards the British I've heard from some people here is ridiculous so I imagine a day of Royal Weddingness disturbing Fox News, The young and the Restless, Jersey Shores, and The Soup will really get up their noses.
I just wish it would hurry up and get over with so I don't have to listen to everyone going on about it all the time....
yeah i get my money from the bank. :-P
Bank??? BANK!!??!??
Damn you, BUY MY COINS !!!
nah, those commerative coins are just a way of making the royal mint money, which is odd cos they can just make some more money if they need some. :razz:
lol, true..
lol, you really don't want them, they're crap (bit like the tv show).
The coins are sent from the mint in Wales. I work in Lancashire, :)
hang on the royal mint is in london, are you just making them yourself out of tin? are you a gypsy? :-P
lmao, I use dog turds to make them.
Oh, and the royal mint is in Llantrisant, Wales. :p http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/about/about.aspx