Where has Prince Andrew gone?

Apparently the BBC has decreed that today/night is twelfth night. My daughter told me. My decs are all down except for a little robin on a phone box that I have just spotted. The tree is undressed but still in the room. Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is actually Epiphany. It is outside the Christmas season. Apparently. [shrug]

I have taken mine down too; I thought we were only doomed if we left them up after 12th Night.

The Three Kings are quite decorative in their own right anyway.

This thread has cheered me up - special thanks to jingle for her contributions.
I'm not minimising the serious elements by the way

Jing - you've taken your decs down before 12th night, I did mine today as well. Are we doomed? The 3 kings arrive tomorrow I'm led to believe

Those cases were being investigated and tried in the UK, not the US, and that makes the difference I think.
Of course Her Madge may be threatening GN with the Tower!

Presumably Mumsnet and Gransnet have a lawyer. Did the lawyer advise GN/MN to delete the thread or were you or your lawyer advised to do so by another source?

In recent cases where various celebrities were in the process of being investigated or tried, Gransnetters have made very many speculative comments but I don't recall any threads relating to these cases being deleted in their entirety for "legal reasons".

Note the "also".

ok thanks.

Probably too much like hard work for Tech, Elegran...

Well, there aren't that many reasons for a thread being deleted, are there?

Could GNHQ delete all the posts in a thread, separately, except for one explaining why they have all gone? Then they could delete the last one, and the thread, later? They would have to lock the thread somehow to stop anyone posting again, I suppose.

Only when it's been a big squabble.

Not just about randy-Andy.

A lot of us do care that threads are sometimes deleted and we don't know why if we haven't been around at the time GNHQ tells us it's about to be!

You know we don't really care.

Do we?!!!!

Where did that comma come from?

Of flip me! Leave off!

I'm trying to be helpful, here jingl...

I'm taking my decs down. Really slowly.

Cari, it may not be possible to leave the deleted thread with the reason for its removal up for 24 hours, but surely GNHQ could post the reason for its deletion somewhere?

There could be a designated 'Deleted Threads' thread...

I think we have done this to death now haven't we? All is clear. All is well.

(Scatters fairy dust to be sure)

So if I say on here that someone I know is a thief when they are not, and then they decide to sue me, where does that leave gransnet?
{I havent done this by the way!]
They have to go back and remove the posts?

Just for the record, cari, I saw the post on the thread saying why it would be deleted and that seemed fine to me. I had noticed some 'assumptions' too. Nobody blethers on about feee speech as much as I do on here but I understood the need to delete that thread because, as people never fail to remind me, free speech doesn't mean you can say just anything on any subject. There are limits and innocent until proven guilty is one of the limits, or lines, that shouldn't be crossed. It had been on that thread, if only by implication.

A thought for future reference: would it be possible for Tech to arrange it so that when a thread gets deleted the reason stays visible for twenty-four hours? People might not moan so much then

Blimey- I can't believe it!