Where has Prince Andrew gone?

You know we don't really care.

Do we?!!!!

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!

Only when it's been a big squabble.

Not just about randy-Andy.

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.

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

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

ok thanks.

Note the "also".

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".

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!

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

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.

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 never quite understood which is Twelfth Night, always thought it was on the 6th but had suspicions that it could be the 5th.

Have just googled it and tomorrow is Twelfth Day, so tonight is Twelfth Night.

except for a little robin on a phone box that I have just spotted

Do you keep a phone box in your living room jingls?

We have one of those modern little phones in our house.

Tardis?

Perhaps that is the answer to the OP

Bless!

I always think of nights as coming after days but of course they come before too. I grew up with the 6th being twelfth night. It works if you count Boxing Day as the first of the twelve days. I guess Auntie Beeb is counting xmas day as day one.

And roseq

And me. The night of Christmas day is the first day, to my mind.

I don't supposed it matters much, unless you're really worried about bad luck befalling you if you don't take all the decs down on the right day.

I am finding this thread more difficult to follow than the plot of Foyle's War.

I think it's known as "diversionary tactics" petallus.

I was beginning to think I had lost the plot, too, Petallus. At least Twitter is still alive and kicking - literally - with the many alleged mis-deeds over the years. But with the support of Boris Johnson and Sarah Ferguson - how can the integrity and moral turpitude of such a public figure (whose ancestors were also presumed to have led blameless lives) come into question! How did this family get so rich to the point of abiding by their own self-made laws?