Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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Yes of course we have freedom Alexander and the right to enjoy ourselves while you obviously volunteered to go into work during the festivities.. By the way one of the Bank holidays was one moved back from May so there was only one extra day.
I find it sad that no matter what goes on Jubilee, Olympics, Wimbledon, and European Football etc etc there are those that moan about them being held or count the cost.
It has been a great weekend with millions of people enjoying themselves with families & friends and for once flying the flag ( most the right way up) to show we are British and dam Proud of it, with event only the Brits can put on and enjoy no matter what the weather. Of course there were also many who came over from the Commonwealth Countries and joined in the fun,
Yesterday's pageant on the River Thames and last night's concert on the Mall was great and Her Majesty deserved the Nations thanks.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Thanks tom.
For that glimpse of the employment rights for agency workers in the UK today
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i broadly agree with harry, not a royalist myself but appreciate the historical aspect of such a long serving monarch, the pagaentry and most of all the fun that people had over the 4 days despite the weather.
i went along to the jubilee lunch on sunday and there was something quintissentially british about people being outside on a miserable day determined to enjoy themselves come what may.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Although the last few days have been rather exhausting, it has been great to meet so many people that I wouldn't have seen otherwise !!
Dover Tattoo was an amazing success which was kick-started by the Jubilee celebrations and hopefully if financially successful it will happen again
Fort Burgoyne was also open (I think to the public for the first time ever) on the back of it so the events have opened up our heritage more
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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An illuminating article, Tom. Thanks for the link.
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Harry - With you 110%
My thoughts exactly. I'm proud to be British and proud of the whole country and the commonwealth for the thanks they gave to our lovely Queen. What a weekend!! Wonderful memories for our kids and grandkids to pass on to future generations.
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
Guest 730- Registered: 5 Nov 2011
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Harry, very well put. I totally agree as well.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I thought Neil's daughter looked like a character out of Avatar - great make-up.
Hear Hear Harry - I quite agree, well said.
A great week-end indeed - one that the Queen and the Nation can be proud of.
Roger
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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[Leaving to one side, that a stopped clock tells the correct time twice each and every day.]
Poor, poor God. Where are Her PR people when She needs them?
Anecdotally, the child each night kneels beside it's bed, hands clasped together, and thanks God and asks that care be taken of sundry relatives, by name. At table, before every meal, again hands clasped together, thanks is given, "for what we are about to receive..."
But, when it comes to Royalty....anybody can confer/offer thanks -without particular- on behalf of everybody else.
One's fellow creatures are routinely cursed and abused, though each plays a part in the fabric of out local communities, no good of and from them is thought possible.
It strikes me that to be a mere human or Godly one must satisfy some unspoken want of, or curry some acute favour from, our fellow man to be tolerated on this earth, far less thanked. But, if one is born into privilege...
I must offer my thanks to Harry and his fellow 'appreciators' for...well it's obvious, isn't it.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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And while I'm about it...
Of note is the letter (see link below) from a Councillor of Bath and North East Somerset...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/what-remains-flags-put-away
All together now..."...never, never, never shall be..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/other-side-new-elizabethan-ageIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins
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I bet none of those grumpy letter writers would have turned down an invitation to be in the posh areas that they are complaining about.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"We see what we wish to see." (As long as we can pay?)
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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I like a chuckle at the handwringing letters in the Guardian.
Whats this nonsense about the unemployed working for nothing, they get rent, council tax and food paid for, why shouldn't they do something to earn it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have a problem with rogue employers making a killing over this, doing community work is a very different issue.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Yes Howard its two separate issues, but lets not pretend the unemployed work for nothing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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It is for others to provide a link to the readers' comments in the Telegraph, but there was this from your neighbour...
"SIR - Might it be time to restore the image of Britannia to our coinage?
Ralph Harding
Dover, Kent "
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Britannia Our Fair Lady!
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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A short, informal video from YouTube of our Big Jubilee Lunch in Tilmanstone Thatched Tudor Barn, hosted by Lord and Lady Pender !!
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Security firm says sorry for London Bridge incident.30 `unpaid` job seekers on the governments work programme were left
to sleep under London Bridge and wait for their food.Job seekers did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits.
Smell of forced labour camps for unemployed unpaid people ?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Good to see the Hollingsbee family looking so well, sadly I only recognised a couple of other faces
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