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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on April 26, 2011, 01:10:51 AM

Title: Is it too early...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 26, 2011, 01:10:51 AM
Now that we have Easter and Earth Day behind us, is it time to get excited about the Royal Wedding?  :)

I had planned on having a big do at our place, but found out my daughter is in dance competitions that day and Saturday so will hold off our Royal party until my Aunt comes over from the UK this summer.

I will bake crown shaped sugar cookies for the library and loan my Royal bunting to the library where they will be playing footage all day in the art gallery. One of the banks is putting on tea and scones.

Oh well, Jazz dance competitons must come before royal weddings.
 

Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 26, 2011, 02:01:13 AM
Is it too early to say, "Bah, Humbug!"  >:(
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Vulture on April 26, 2011, 06:24:05 AM
Is it too early to say, "Bah, Humbug!"  >:(

No, it's not! I celebrated the last  Royal Wedding and look how that turned out!
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Diamond Lil on April 26, 2011, 06:49:22 AM
No, it's not! I celebrated the last  Royal Wedding and look how that turned out!

Oh no! Please don't tell me there's trouble in the paradise that is the marriage of Charles and Camilla  :'(
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Vulture on April 26, 2011, 11:29:18 AM
No, it's not! I celebrated the last  Royal Wedding and look how that turned out!

Oh no! Please don't tell me there's trouble in the paradise that is the marriage of Charles and Camilla  :'(

Yes, Camilla was shocked to find that Charles had been two-timing her; she wasn't the only woman who shared the royal bed! (I thought that was a civil wedding? I was referring to the one that happened when I was young enough to walk all the way from Maida Vale to Hyde Park to watch the fireworks!)
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Bog on April 26, 2011, 02:35:22 PM
I was a policeman before I was a Peepman, done all the Royal weddings in London over the last 30 odd years,
what a lovely time they all were too.

So this one, I will be on the golf course, not looking for bombs or terrorists or Mad Pierres , or anything to be
fair, well a ball or two!

I would like it on record that my first Sergeant was actually called Dennis Pratt!

and he was a real Dennis.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 26, 2011, 04:38:04 PM
My brother's wife's brother is named Dennis Pratt too. I only met him once when he came on holiday to Canada but he seemed like a nice enough fella.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 26, 2011, 04:43:35 PM
I just read that there hasn't been a single street party application in Glasgow.  :o
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Roger Kettle on April 26, 2011, 06:13:06 PM
I'll also be on the golf course when our beloved Prince gets hitched. In his honour, I'll try to shoot some birdies.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 26, 2011, 06:52:52 PM
I just read that there hasn't been a single street party application in Glasgow.  :o

The only thing surprising about this is that you appear to be surprised by it, Peepsie.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 26, 2011, 06:58:41 PM
Sorry - I meant to add...

There are a number of options to watch The Wedding on large screens near us, including our local church and the magnificent grounds of Powys Castle. We thought about it for a while, then abandoned the idea because neither my better half nor I could agree which venue would be least likely to evict us after we yell "DON'T DO IT!" in unison at the crucial moment.

So, on balance, we'll stay at home and watch paint dry.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on April 26, 2011, 09:52:48 PM
I would love to go to Powys Castle for the do. Too bad we don't live closer - you could have took my kid to her jazz competition.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on April 26, 2011, 10:34:25 PM
Sounds like a great trade-off to me, Diane. I love jazz!

Powys Castle is beautiful, and the gardens are truly magnificent. But we were there just last Saturday for a Easter egg hunt, and you can get too much of a good thing. And why spoil it with a Royal wedding?
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Malc on April 27, 2011, 01:30:35 PM
I'm an avowed republican and Anti-Royal, and I wouldn't be looking at these two eejits getting hitched if you paid me. Problem is, as a Pom living in Oz, people immediately assume I'm a Monarchist.
I am a proud Briton, however, as well as a proud Scot, and I don't mind the Union Jack as a flag at all (though I'm not a flag waver as a rule) I just think it's time the Aussies removed it from THEIR flag, which to my mind would look better with just the six white stars on a blue background.
Anyway, them's me views and it would be a boring old world if we all thought the same, eh?
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 27, 2011, 03:50:39 PM
Diane - see if you can get over to the Isle of Bute this weekend. It's the annual Jazz Festival... http://www.butejazz.com/ (http://www.butejazz.com/)
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Max on April 27, 2011, 07:48:08 PM
Diane, OR if you don't want to raise a mortgage to pay Calmac (ferries) get your tail over to sunny Girvan where I will be all weekend at the folk festival.

http://www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk/ (http://www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk/)

You even get to see a Wicker Man burning on Sunday, sadly no Edward Woodward though.  ;D

(http://www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk/images/gallery-pics/2009/colin-002.jpg)
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Jerry Attrick on April 27, 2011, 09:38:45 PM
OK wasn't intending to mark the occasion but SWMBO has decreeded that we are going to spent the day in front of the TV watching it! I am thinking of taking a leaf of of the late, great, Denis Tatcher's book - 'hipflask containing a large portion of the 'electric soup', inbibe deeply, fall asleep...' Actually sounds like a perfect day!
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Bog on April 28, 2011, 01:38:25 PM
Malc,

Quite agree, free speech and all that, what a boring world it would be, if we all agreed on everything.

I see your Lady Prime Minister, the Welsh one, is here for the wedding, do you think she will bring you home a peice of cake?

My guess is she will scoff the lot, have a good time in the London sunshine (bar tomorrow when it will be quite damp) and
enjoy the first class flight home.

I am still playing golf, as for shooting a birdie, not much chance of that, at the moment I can't hit a cows bum with a banjo!

Bog

 
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: The Peepmaster on April 28, 2011, 04:02:07 PM

I am still playing golf, as for shooting a birdie, not much chance of that, at the moment I can't hit a cows bum with a banjo!


I'm no expert in golfing equipment, but I think I've spotted your problem...
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Fyodor on April 30, 2011, 10:13:03 AM
Just saw the dress - breathtaking!
And they look so much in love.
I'm filling up.
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Diane CBPFC on May 01, 2011, 02:11:04 AM
Just saw the dress - breathtaking!
And they look so much in love.
I'm filling up.

:-)

I am worn out with the Royal Wedding - I stayed up to 6:00 AM then had a couple of hours sleep before I had to run to get my kid over to the Jazz competition. THe wedding sure was lovely though - I was most impressed with the sounds made in the abby.  :)
Title: Re: Is it too early...
Post by: Joan on May 04, 2011, 01:38:53 PM
Was at a very civilised time for us here - from about 7pm and apart from hubby switching over to the football (rugby league) every now and again, saw most of it. I even had a glass of bubbly, which went straight to my head as I'd been on antibiotics and hadn't had a drink for 2 weeks.

Best bits for me were Westminster Abbey, the music, the horses and I thought her dress was lovely.