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Has the Queen died?

She has left her home for the last time, I guess the funeral will be next week:

She has always hated Buckingham palace and spent as little time there as possible. It's a stretch to say it's her home when she hadn't been a night there in two years
 
She has left her home for the last time, I guess the funeral will be next week:



She donating it for social housing then? Fancy releasing some equity?

Or is it going to sit empty and continue adding to the housing crisis not to mention the energy costs and carbon of maintaining the place
 
She donating it for social housing then? Fancy releasing some equity?

Or is it going to sit empty and continue adding to the housing crisis not to mention the energy costs and carbon of maintaining the place

It'll be her eldest son's pied-à-terre, after the handyman has given it a lick of magnolia.
 
Unfortunately unlike the rest of us, she probably has a bomb shelter under her house :(
I would imagine that in the likelihood of nuclear war there is a plan to stash key Royals somewhere safe, I would imagine the sweaty one has lost his place in the bunker though.
 
I would imagine that in the likelihood of nuclear war there is a plan to stash key Royals somewhere safe, I would imagine the sweaty one has lost his place in the bunker though.
in the event of nuclear war they would have 4 minutes to stash them so it's probably going to be shove them under some tables while the staff, being more agile and indeed younger, will make their way at haste to the bunker and then blame each other for not bringing the queen
 
in the event of nuclear war they would have 4 minutes to stash them so it's probably going to be shove them under some tables while the staff, being more agile and indeed younger, will make their way at haste to the bunker and then blame each other for not bringing the queen

This is in the plan - they don't want the Queen to be seized by invading Russian soldiers and married to Putin to cement the takeover.
 
I moved house last August. New street's WhatsApp group is talking about a jubilee party, or at least 4-5 people are. The enthusiasm seems minimal. I think they might end up celebrating a coronation instead.
 
oddly my road appears to have no interest


but as i repeatly report last time it was a queen jubilee party, the local mosque invited people to one by knocking on doors and the mother went :D
hope they do it again
 
These Covid-inspired WhatsApp groups can be interesting. A few months ago we had two young women knocking on doors on a cold Saturday morning, saying they were representing OpenWorld and wanting to know your broadband speed. The one I spoke to was obviously Spanish, and, in fact, she confirmed this when I asked her where she came from in Spain. The other was black.

Within seconds, WhatsApp posts had appeared urging caution. It's a scam-one of them is possibly Romanian... nobody directly singled out the black woman but... Lots of joining in (neither girl was above about 5'4" and no threat to anybody but the old and chronically ill, none of whom were joining in.) Then came the indignant replies from the anti-racists.

A battle between the 'woke' and the party of reaction right on my doorstep. Who would have guessed? Dismayingly, as far as I can gather from my curtain-twitching observations, it largely seemed like a conflct between the university educated incomers and the proper locals.
 
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These Covid-inspired WhatsApp groups can be interesting. A few months ago we had two young women knocking on doors on a cold Saturday morning, saying they were representing OpenWorld and wanting to know your broadband speed. The one I spoke to was obviously Spanish, and, in fact, she confirmed this when I asked her where she came from in Spain. The other was black.

Within seconds, WhatsApp posts had appeared urging caution. It's a scam-one of them is obviously Romanian... nobodty directly singled out the black woman but.... Lots of joining in (neither girl was above about 5'4" and no threat to anybody but the old and chronically ill.) Then came the indignant replies from the anti-racists.

A battle between the 'woke' and the party of progress right on my doorstep. Who would have guessed? Dismayingly, as far as I can gather from my curtain-twitching observations, it largely seemed like a conflct between the university educated incomers and the proper locals.
What's the relevance of one girl being black and the other Spanish?
 
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A battle between the 'woke' and the party of reaction right on my doorstep. Who would have guessed? Dismayingly, as far as I can gather from my curtain-twitching observations, it largely seemed like a conflct between the university educated incomers and the proper locals.

owning the libs

:hmm:
 
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