Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Chatting on the Plot => Topic started by: Subversive_plot on September 08, 2022, 13:09
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We have heard over here that the Queen's doctors are concerned for her health. I'm praying for her health to improve, and thinking of her family.
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Thanks, SP, I think we all are. She’s been an exemplary monarch, and may she continue a while longer.
She’ll be a very hard act to follow.
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Thanks, SP, I think we all are. She’s been an exemplary monarch, and may she continue a while longer.
She’ll be a very hard act to follow.
Can't help thinking she'll be an impossible act to follow.
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She has gone - but she won't be forgotten.
May she rest in peace, now..
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R. I. P. our thoughts are with them all
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This is the news I expected but didn't want. RIP Your Majesty. My thoughts and prayers are with your family, may they find peace.
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I'm sad for her passing, but glad for her legacy. What an exemplary world leader she has been.
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Today has been a day we knew must come but hoped wouldn't. She worked for the country right up to end. I expect many feel as I do, a sense of personal loss. A constant that his been there for all our lives, gone.
It's going to be very strange and sad for a while.
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Her death represents the loss of an institution so quintessential British.
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I feel I knew her, though of course I didn’t. She has always been there for my lifetime, so it is very odd to feel she has gone now.
She worked for the country right up to end.
I think she would have got quite a kick out of that as well. Devotion to duty and her ‘job’ was her overriding motivation.
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As others have said, it's the day we increasingly knew was inevitable sooner rather than later, but a shock nevertheless now the reality is sinking in.
Events like this can also trigger reminders of personal loss or grief. Be kind to yourself and others, stay close to those you love, take the time you need, do what you feel is best to navigate emotions - whether that's switching off the TV or social media, or reading a book. Everyone will react differently.
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Hello I've just been asked to join a bell ring at my local church tomorrow lunch time,might be a 96 single bell rolls as we did for The Queen mother jezza
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Yes, the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (who knew there was such a body?!) has encouraged all cburches that are able, to ring their bells for an hour from 12 noon.
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Just back from my camera club meeting.
We had a one minute silence in her honour.
It feels very odd saying God Save the King.
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Yes, the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (who knew there was such a body?!) has encouraged all cburches that are able, to ring their bells for an hour from 12 noon.
When Princess Diana died, there was an hour of half-muffled rounds in the church during the evening, and it was absolutely beautiful as well as very haunting!
I stopped ringing quite a few years ago, (never at home on Saturdays or Friday Evenings) and even tried again a few years ago but couldn't get back into the work needed! I never rang a half-muffled bell, but understand that it is quite difficult as the balance changes every turn!
I think we might have a full-muffled change at Westminster Abbey and that really will be something to listen to and ponder, especially if they try a 'Royal', which would go on for ages, but 96 years is also a long time, and doesn't she deserve it!
Sad days.
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Just woke up with the realisation that my Queen has gone.. a woman I pledged allegiance to & have respected all my life.. lots of memories have come flooding back..... watching her in awe when she visited Durham many, many years ago... memories of my Mam dying a few weeks before Princess Diana 25 yrs ago, my Mam was born the same year as the Queen so would have been the same age now. There will never be another Monarch like her, a woman that touched so many lives acting with total service & dignity to us all throughout her life.
Things will never be the same again.
God Save the Queen!
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There was a video on YouTube of people singing the national anthem - you wouldn't think it would so difficult to change from 'her' to 'him' but it was very ragged.
Seems so weird to hear them saying 'The King'
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I came in with a King on the throne, it looks as though I will be going out with one.
Does anyone know who made it to the Queen's bedside before she passed away?
I never met her, never saw her in real life but I hope she's with Phil now.
Cheers, Tony.
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Does anyone know who made it to the Queen's bedside before she passed away?
Papers are saying Charles and Anne, the rest were on route.
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Like many schoolkids in the 70s, I waved at the passing vehicle for the Queen and Anne a few times but I actually got to meet Charles face to face. He was doing the duty of walking down the line from the school orchestra to chat to the section representatives after a local concert. As first French Horn I was picked for that one. It would have been in the early 80s.
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Hello we rang on half muffle bells yesterday,what a very eerie experience as we rang there was a constant drone in the tower ,we rang on 5 bells as we only had 5 ringers we have 6 bells one brand new we could only muffle 5 bells we rang on the front 5 for 43 minutes as we had a funeral coming in at 1pm jezza
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One change that will take a little while is our currency , apparently there are 4.5 billion bank notes in circulation worth about £80 billion , not many in my possession sadly :lol: .
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I was told yesterday that King Charles will be depicted facing the other way to the Queen as that is the protocol that each faces the opposite way to the last on our currency, not sure if it’s correct though
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I was told yesterday that King Charles will be depicted facing the other way to the Queen as that is the protocol that each faces the opposite way to the last on our currency, not sure if it’s correct though
I believe that is correct protocol and Charles will face left. However, he could ask the Royal Mint to keep him right facing as his mother. There is precedent, Edward VIII requested his portrait should face left, like his father's portrait before him.
So many symbolisms in our society that we're not really conscious of.
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I don't really know what to say. Your words have said all that I feel. Yes, it does make me feel the loss again of my own family. I do feel sorry for the members of the royal family who have to walk behind her coffin.
Mrs Bouquet
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Her passing has hit me quite hard. No one can possibly imagine what devotion and fortitude she has shown over her reign. Like many of us, there must have been many days she just didn't feel like getting ready and going out to meet whoever at whatever time of day or night it was, all the protocol and formalities, and the never-ending smell of new paint. That beautiful smile of hers was so special and so genuine. I cannot help looking at that Paddington Bear sketch and thinking how much she must have loved doing it and seeing the twinkle in her eyes when the contents of her mysterious handbag were finally revealed. I am also in awe of all the people involved in Scotland and now in England for what has been such a dignified, solemn and extremely precise way of bringing her back home. I keep having goosebumps. God love Charles for the way he's had to compartmentalise his extreme grief whilst being in the public eye. I have the highest regard for him and his immediate family in the way they have conducted themselves.