Just a thought

Good idea, absent. I suggested that Kate's pregnancy should be confined to a single thread but that seems to have already gone out of the window.

Get's my vote!

and yes, those of us who are not specially gripped by this would be so grateful. It would also make it easier for people to locate threads - which is not easy as search function not v powerful and thread naming is indisciplined to say the least .
I know it would be too much to ask that people use one of the existing xmas threads and do not start another half a dozen.

I get annoyed when the papers tell me the whole nation is gripped by baby fever. No, it isn't! And how daft to have swarms of journalists waiting outside the hospital - what are they expecting
A healthy young woman is having a baby and is suffering, as many do, from severe morning sickness. Big deal.
Still, I suppose it diverts attention from the real issues of the day.

I'm pleased they're having a baby but I don't want half hourly bulletins, especially when it's on TV, radio and in the papers. One Gransnet thread that I can avoid would be good, please

Good idea to have all posts on the one thread we have a long way to go yet.

JessM I have started a separate Christmas thread with the Advent Calendar, which was very naughty of me!

So I will move the subject on by joining Greatnan's gripe about the papers reporting the 'whole nation is gripped by baby fever' I get really, really, p****d off when broadcasters and the press talk about something and say 'we all', or 'everybody' or worst of all, 'all women' enjoy a good shop (no I dont), chocolate (no I dont) or a good chat to their friends (OK, count me in here, but every woman?).

What irritates me most is when broadcasters talking about the recession and the period before it and say things like 'We are all to blame, we were all living on credit, running up huge credit card bills, taking equity out of our houses to fund cars and holidays and not saving anything'. I know lots of people of all ages and incomes who did none of these things.

Rant over.

Just wait until she is in labour,and will she be to posh to push and such and so on,the the references back to when William was born and so on....aaaaarrrggh!!

Good idea absent. Already sick of the coverage. Poor Kate, let her be sick in peace.

I feel sorry for both of them. Most people would choose to wait a bit longer before making the pregnancy public and they no doubt did so to pre-empt any leaks. If people on Gransnet are already moaning about all the media stories for the next 30 weeks or so, what will it be like for them?

It's going to seem even longer than the run up to the Scottish referendum!

Impossible!

Wasn't it Queen Mary (the Bloody Tudor) who gave it a go - eventually it turned out not to be a baby after all ?

Was probably ca of uterus or ovary.

same hear sick of the coverage on tv .

Maybe GN should have one in that case for Republicans!!.

Simply don't enter a thread if you have no input. That message is espoused enough times and it makes sense to me.

I agree, POGS but people seem to feel the need to register their disapproval anyway.

My suggestion was not with a view to asking GNHQ to introduce any sort of ruling about who may and who may not post on any thread. Apart from anything else, I don't see them agreeing to that and in any case I wouldn't want them to. I just thought it was time for a dedicated Royalty forum particularly in the light of the forthcoming sprog. There are those who take a particular pleasure and delight in the doings of the House of Windsor who would, I am sure, appreciate this and it would also mean that those of us who are less enthusiastic about the subject wouldn't keep opening threads which we didn't particularly want to read. However, I am not at all sure that when Republicans post on a thread about some member of the royal family they don't actually have any input; what they usually lack is any kind of approval.

Being a republican is one thing, carping and snide remarks about members of the royal family is another. It smacks of envy and spite rather than making a political or constitutional statement. I'm a royalist but I'm not looking forward to pages and pages and hours of screen time spent on this pregnancy. But I think that's the media to blame, rather than the principals. I'll avoid reading or watching it when I've had enough.

I have always wondered why we don't have a forum for the Royal Family. But I suppose it would just get like the Religion and Spirituality threads where the anti's wade in with negative, and sometimes unkind, comments.

I don't think we'll get hours and hours of screen time on the pregnancy Lillygran. They're not going to issue weekly scans or fortnightly blood pressure readings.

Abesnt

I think it is pretty obvious what you are saying.

If you look at the times the three threads were started, 2 were within in a minute of each other and yours after a little longer. I wouldn't worry in that case there will be nore threads started, it was just timing, it happens!!

I still think a dedicated forum would be a good idea from everyone's point of view. Then we all know what we are entering if we dare approach it. I'm not worried about more threads starting – I am actively encouraging it.