Prince Harry’s engagement

Royal family? Tourism? Good for the North East? HS2?
Do try and keep up.

Gilly, Refuge do a lot if good work, pity Jen dismissed them as getting little attention

how did we get on to trains?

Was that on a Grand Central train?
My grandson would love to go on one of those, but we'd have to drive to Sunderland first, which would add half an hour onto the journey.
Was it a festival in York?
That would be why it was so busy.

I took the train from Sunderland to York yesterday . It took 2 hrs 5 minutes ( a record) ha ha ! The train was so full every bit of floor was jammed with people sitting on the floor . Crikey knows what time the people heading for Kings Cross eventually got in ??

Oh yes they will be queuing up won't they dj . Relocating to the NE ? What a joke. We are just going to be even more cut off/ forgotten than we already are .

We still have a very well supported women's refuge ( thank goodness ) my WI have it as our preferred charity . It's heartbreaking listening to some of the stories. Women ( often with children) arriving from a different part of the country with nothing to call their own.

HS2 will benefit the north west because like durhamjen, I've heard it repeated so often, it must be true. Just imagine, we can get to London 10 minutes faster, that will be such comfort for those of us in the centre of the northern poor house.
Apologies, that has nothing to do with Prince Harry's engagement. That has been one of the good news items for me this week. I know - I'm lost

Gillybob, don't forget that HS2 is going to benefit the North East to the point that lots of companies are going to relocate in the north east because of it!!!
I heard it on the news last week, so it must be true.

Cumbria lost its last women's refuge this year.

Our local WI support a woman's refuge. This Christmas they have asked for packages of the very basics such as a pair of pyjamas, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, tampons etc. That they can hand out to new arrivals who usually turn up with nothing at all. Very sad.

I accept the rf encourage tourism to London . But what do they do for the rest of the country? Not a lot. It's a bit like saying thst the olympics benefitted the entire country when it clearly didn't .

www.refuge.org.uk/get-help-now/

I don't see the point of your post, Annie. Why is work with charities that get little attention seen as more notable?
Perhaps it would be better if she tried to get a higher profile for women's refuges. Then the government wouldn't feel it acceptable to close so many.
17% closed since this government came to power.

I'm very intrigued by the assumption that if you criticise May's clothes you're a Corbynite

And thanks to this thread I suddenly realised that we've chopped off more queen's heads than have the French (albeit for even more ignoble reasons); two, as opposed to their one (three if you count poor little Lady Jane Grey)

There’s really no need to be so rude to people just because they don’t share your political views.

*Priceless!! grin
Pot, kettle, black come to mind

The posts just get funnier and funnier.

Jalima the above is your post referring to my post.

When have I ever been rude or posted a personal comment about anyone who does not share my political views? Please tell me if you can find one. Or I’d be happy to hear from anyone who thinks I have ever done the same. I don’t do personal insults and I don’t understand why others need to do them either. Or perhaps I do.

All those royal palaces would get loads more tourists if there weren’t any royal family as they could be open all the time. More people visit Versailles in France and The Tsars palaces in Russia than any of the relatively mediocre royal palaces in this country and their monarchies are long gone. So the idea that the millions of tourists clogging up London are here to see the queen is hokum. The Tower of London more popular and thats where queens’ heads were chopped off.

Camilla was at a charity yesterday which supports battered women, she has chosen charities which draw little attention,

My grandad always wore a hat, too. But he'd be 123years old now if he was still alive so probably not very relevant!

I was in Cornwall in June, Durhamjen, and saw no doffing. Or hats, except for sunhats, which definitely weren't doffed.

Ditto Gloucestershire but it was raining there so sunhats were not in evidence though umbrellas were.

I live in an area frequented by various members of the royal family and they don't put on airs and graces. My young daughter's friends were out hillwalking this summer when a dog ran over to them. A lone walker called the dog to heel and apologised as they passed by. The girls walked on and then it dawned on them that it was in fact the queen. She was on her own, tramping the hills and exercising her dogs, though no doubt security was lurking somewhere. My mum is a year younger than the queen but I'm not sure I'd want her wandering the hills alone!

I've also flown on a normal domestic flight with Camilla as a fellow passenger. She was wearing a coat that I wouldn't have thought fit for my dog to sleep on. They seem very ordinary human beings, really. I actually thought Camilla was someone who worked in my local surgery, because her face was familiar!

Doffing caps? Fiefdoms? Oh, you are funny durham!

Gloucestershire, I would have said, but Princess Michael of Kent no longer lives there so no doffing or curtseying required when out shopping these days.

Cornwall? Prince Charles's fiefdom? And his village in Dorset.

My father never went out without a hat on (and we weren't at all posh, so nothing to do with 'class'), neither did my paternal grandfather. They always lifted their hats in greeting to women they knew if they met them in the street.

But hat wearing went out many years ago (and some of us might say that manners did, too...)

Actually, I remember when men used to doff their caps or hats when they met ladies.

Is it that they don't wear caps any more or that we are now women and not ladies?

I think you'd have to go back a few hundred years SueDonim
ooh arrr yer Royal Highness

Where is this Ruritanian part of Britain which has cap-doffing residents who regard themselves as lesser beings than the royal family?

I think that I'm quite well-travelled in the UK but I would be interested to visit this quaint-sounding enclave on my holidays next year.

ps I don't think they are superior, I think they are doing a job and HM in particular has done a sterling job over the years and has earned my utmost respect.

That's my mentality and that of most people I know.

But I am not so intransigent that I do not realise that other people may have a different mentality - I do understand human nature.