I am confused........

Well said

Spot on Chestnut.

What a nasty post. Charles has been a good person who led the environmental campaign long before it became popular and has helped countless disaffected young people through the Prince's Trust. As for his personal life, well no-one is perfect and if he had been able to marry Camilla at the start then there would not have been any scandal for you to jump on. He paid a heavy price over the years and I'm glad he found happiness in his later years.

Out and out Republican here too though I admit to a certain admiration for the queen on a personal level. I don't agree with the institution but she's led a fairly exemplary life within it and has done her duty as monarchists see it without complaint.
As for the future, never will I ever refer to the tampon prince as king nor acknowledge him as such. I won't ever rise to my feet for the national anthem as I have done on formal occasions for the sake of form for her majesty's sake. He and horse face can go to the devil. He and the younger generation want it all, they want to be accepted as normal human beings and yet reap the benefits of their titles and positions. Not on, Can't have it every which way. You want to be a monarch? You knuckle down and live an exemplary life with constraints the normal person doesn't have to think about. That's the price you pay. You want to have public affairs, drag the family name through the mud, and still feast on your cake? On yer bikes the lot of you!

Farzanah the term 'work' can involve almost anything not just a hospital shift. There is mental work as well as physical, and this can be just as arduous. An endless round of official engagements, with all the mental stress involved, must be exhausting whatever your age. Focus and concentration are essential, as they are with paperwork and official documents. Maybe you can't understand this type of 'work' but that doesn't make it any less real.

Well OmaforMaya There’s work and “work” isn’t there?
I don’t think there’s many 96 year olds putting in a hospital shift for example, which is what most of us consider “work” to be (even if they could be chauffeured there and back).
There’s just no comparison with the Royals so called work at whatever age.

Chestnut

Nannarose

Many communities are trying to make a nice day for people who have little to spare. Our local foodbank has picnic parcels to take to a local free open air concert.
I too am a republican, and wish that we did this all differently. But after the last 2 years, and the current state, I'm for a community celebration.

Hear hear! After the last two years we deserve something to lift our spirits, and a joyous occasion like this is just perfect. It's a HUGE achievement to have dedicated 70 years to serving the country. And yes, the Queen may not be slaving away in a shop or factory but she has endless paperwork to do and events to attend. Imagine being dressed and preened to perfection all the time, with important people to meet and places to go, no matter how you feel. You have to make conversation, give speeches, always be the perfect hostess and be on show. I would find it exhausting, and I imagine it requires a great deal of mental effort and stamina.

When you see the beautiful icing on a cake you don't see all the work that has gone into making it.

Very well said. ? to all you miserable people, republicans and all and ? to our beautiful Monarch. Someone said she had never done a day's work in her life......really!! If any of you miserable moaners are still working at the age of ninety six good on you.

You’re welcome, maddyone.

Thanks for pointing it out maggie

Oh I understand. Apologies mar76. I misunderstood your post

Oh dear Volver you do go on!!

I think mar76 is talking to a different Maddy, maddyone. The one you’ve just replied to.

Weird!

I didn’t mention either BJ or Covid!

No Maddy
You are wrong.
Johnson didn't get us through Covid. It was the SCIENTISTS.

No Maddy, you’ve got that wrong. The Queen doesn’t GIVE anything, we GIVE a great deal of money to her, millions every year in fact!

What a miserable lot! Ok the Queen is rich but she GIVES so much. And NEVER complains. And this weekend of celebrations is giving so many people a chance to party with friends and neighbours. We lost all that with Covid. And so may people whingeing about Boris. He got us through Covid, working silly hours. He deserved a drink!!!

PrettyNancy

Callistemon21

What I do wonder is why you would want mixed peel in a trifle?

For the jewelled chocolate bark
50g/1¾oz mixed peel
1 tbsp caster sugar (optional)
200g/7oz white chocolate, broken into pieces

Good grief! what's wrong with Birds custard and a few hundreds and thousands!! ??

Glacé cherries and flaked almonds (if no-one has a nut allergy)
And readymade vanilla custard!

The KISS method
(Keep it simple, stupid)
I'm not calling you stupid, someone taught me that route to success in entertaining ?

I've no interest either. Though I never thought I would say this, I'm glad of the break in the news with it as I can't take anymore of the Depp V Heard trial and the aftermath.

That circus isn't over yet either as Amber is appealing. So the Royals are a welcome relief even though I believe the monarchy should go after the Queen. I only read the news online so I can be choosy about what I read.

I do have a favourite royal though and that is Harry ? No surprise there anyone who knows me would say being a free spirit too ?

So. HM has lived 96 Years. She has never had to go hungry, worry about money, been homeless, do housework, cope with wartime rations,. She has doctors on hand instead of waiting months for an operation.
All these celebrations are to distract the population from the state this country is in.

My son tells me that his village had £2000 grant to stage a park picnic. They didn’t need it!

Callistemon21

^What I do wonder is why you would want mixed peel in a trifle^?

For the jewelled chocolate bark
50g/1¾oz mixed peel
1 tbsp caster sugar (optional)
200g/7oz white chocolate, broken into pieces

Good grief! what's wrong with Birds custard and a few hundreds and thousands!! ??

What I do wonder is why you would want mixed peel in a trifle?

For the jewelled chocolate bark
50g/1¾oz mixed peel
1 tbsp caster sugar (optional)
200g/7oz white chocolate, broken into pieces

Maggiemaybe

^do wonder how many on here making their trifle and putting out the bunting etc. were amongst those howling for her blood back at the time of the death of Diane!!!!^

What an odd thing to wonder. Perhaps you could take a headcount.

I’ll start. So far I’ve got one flag on a stick stuck in a plant pot in my front yard, and I might yet have a go at that trifle if I can find some unseasonal mixed peel, but I have never in my life howled for anyone’s blood. Or for anything else, for that matter.

What’s the AIBU, by the way?

I don't think its an odd thing to wonder at all!

What I do wonder is why you would want mixed peel in a trifle?

I just heard Andrew has tested positive for covid. How convenient terrible.

GraceQuirrel

“Committed republicans”



Long live the queen.

Long live the revolution!