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QuoteWhen is it? I will have to avoid it, just like the last one.cue for a yacf get-together?
When is it? I will have to avoid it, just like the last one.
We still have the small glass mugs from 1981. They are just the right size for measuring the ingredients for two portions of porridge.
Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2010, 05:12:46 pmWe still have the small glass mugs from 1981. They are just the right size for measuring the ingredients for two portions of porridge.My mother has some commemorative mugs. I refuse to drink out of one when I visit (and she knows it).
I think there will be a WARTY on the day - We're All Republicans Today, Yes?
Quote from: Woofage on 16 November, 2010, 05:42:52 pmQuote from: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2010, 05:12:46 pmWe still have the small glass mugs from 1981. They are just the right size for measuring the ingredients for two portions of porridge.My mother has some commemorative mugs. I refuse to drink out of one when I visit (and she knows it).I don't think that these have ever been used as drinking vessels.It's amazing in our house that they've survived almost 30 years.
Much like the plebeians of yore I love bread and circuses, so will be a Royalist on the day, switching quickly back to borderline republican the day after.
Quote from: Wowbagger on 16 November, 2010, 11:52:55 amWhen is it? I will have to avoid it, just like the last one. That reminds me, for the Charles & Diana one, my dad took me and my sister up Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) to avoid it. I was 13 and my sister would have just turned 10. The place was heaving, and we spoke to many people who were there for the very same reason.
The Gold Medal was won my horsewoman Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor.
How long before al Fayed gets her to one side and warns her, all eyerolly and sotto voce?
Any excuse for a party!How about a proper street party, with swiss rolls and stuff on sticks?
How about a proper street party, with stuffed rolls and Swiss on sticks?
Ah yes, 1981. The country in recession deeper than it needed to be due to monetarist control measures forced upon the oiks by the then gubbishment. An ostentatious royal wedding just to remind the oiks where the money and self-appointed power is was lavishly splashed across the media.* Gets out crystal ball... *2011: The country will be in recession due to the extreme and unnecessary monetarist measures of the gubbishment. A right royal fling will invade every aspect of the media reminding the oiks where the money and self-appointed power remains.
Since they are reportedly going to live in North Wales, if they get divorced she'd better not go through that tunnel under the river at Conwy.
Apparently she's having Diana's ring. I presume she gave it back to Charles when they separated, and it wasn't prised off her cold dead hand in a Paris morgue?On a scale of "unlucky omens" this is probably up there with walking under a ladder while squashing a money spider and ignoring a solitary magpie.
