Enough with the jubilee already.

Zonne

Totally agree. It’s not even the anniversary of either her accession or her coronation.

I’m going to stay with friends who live even more rurally than we do, and we’re all going to ignore the whole thing.

The Coronation was on 2 June 1953.

Next Thursday is due to be 2 June 2022.

Im not interested at all and will be just carrying on as for a "normal" weekend. If I do choose to watch TV I will stick to the streaming services to avoid all the hooha. No flags, decorations or street parties around here to my knowledge.

We're going glamping. No TV. ?

Totally agree. It’s not even the anniversary of either her accession or her coronation.

I’m going to stay with friends who live even more rurally than we do, and we’re all going to ignore the whole thing.

Our road is closing for the day - one big party - but I really don't think it's got much to do with the jubilee. It's more of a pagan feast, excuse to drink, chat and play - after a really difficult couple of years.

We’re going to have a drive round all the local villages next week to look at the decorations. I quite like seeing Union Jacks everywhere and not instantly thinking BNP. I like all the knitted postbox toppers as well. I rather like days that are going to go down in history and usually buy a newspaper to keep (although they’re usually about deaths and funerals; Diana, Red Rum, Syd Barrett etc). I’m afraid I’m a strange mix of armchair anarchist and extreme traditionalist! And, having shielded for so long I’m looking forward to going to the village celebrations and meeting up with people I haven’t seen for ages.

More importantly, we haven’t seen youngest DD and SiL for three years and they are arriving here from Australia on Thursday for six weeks! Huge cause for thé only celebration we will be interested in.??

Twiglet, all that sounds great!

I work in a supermarket and we are open every day, but closing at 8pm rather than the usual 9pm on Thursday and Friday. Urgent calls for staff to volunteer for overtime, with the expectation it will be busier than the week before Easter. Fancy banners all over the store, Pimms on promotion, Jubilee patterned cupcakes are flying out at £6.50 for a box of six! The amount of wine and bubbly that’s gone through my checkout this week is incredible, people are buying 15+ bottles… why?? I am thrilled that the Queen has survived to mark this incredible anniversary but the outrageous level of spending for people who’ll never meet her to have a party, it’s utter madness.

That’s why EasyJet flights are so expensive Jubilee week? Everybody is trying to escape!

Happy to report my home city has decided NOT to organise jubilee celebrations.There are far more deserving causes for the cash to be spent on

I'm planning to ignore it all - plenty of gardening to do - but suspect I'll be dragged out by annoyingly cheery neighbours on Friday and Sunday to 'celebrate' - dammit!