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Dependably Good-humoured writeup thanks, a brief break from your illuminating Purple pages. I enjoyed the pair of Jubilee blogs. ’77 saw me screen-printing Stuff The Jubilee' t-shirts and yet kipping overnight in Mall (unattired).

Noel | 06.06.22 - 7:58 a.m. | #

Watching the TV coverage of the parade, it seemed that most of the celebs on the buses and other floats were looking away from the park. I felt this was a pity for the Parkside viewers. Unless, of course, they played to the camera and really did wave to fans on both sides.

Petras409 | 06.06.22 - 8:02 a.m. | #

Huge respect to Her Maj and her life of service to the Royal Family. Not even Bill Roche comes close in terms of longevity in a single role. I'm no Republican, but found the flag-waving hordes cringeworthy, and mainly unrepresentative of our multicultural society. So had hoped that coverage of the Platy Jubes was finally over. Maybe it is now.

Frank F | 06.06.22 - 8:53 a.m. | #

The impression where I live is that most people used the 4 day break to visit relatives (shops quiet, fewer parked cars, no evening mopeds), there were some fireworks somewhere last night, otherwise nothing - this includes those that had NHS stuff in their windows during Covid, or England flags during Euro2020.

Still Anon | 06.06.22 - 9:42 a.m. | #

... An 18-year-old I was caretaking several young people who DID want to be there to watch.

Noel | 06.06.22 - 10:22 a.m. | #

I was disappointed that the age of the buses used in the pageant didn't all match the decade in question. I know there probably isn't yet an open-top Boris bus, but there must be some Atlanteans or Metrobuses available.

Andrew S | 06.06.22 - 11:08 a.m. | #

I've been so busy with normal everyday life over the last 4 days I only managed to watch the concert live!
I didn't bother recording the parade, but having heard so much about it since I might see if I can make the time to catch it on I-player.

Otherwise, if it wasn't for the non-stop coverage on TV you'd never have guessed there was a Jubilee from my locality!

Cornish Cockney | 06.06.22 - 7:21 p.m. | #

So few comments! Perhaps many regular contributors are still recovering from 4 days of non-stop celebrating or perhaps there's little interest in the whole occasion.

I'm not particularly a Royalist but still found some bits of the celebration both nationally and local to me quite enjoyable. Finally watched the Paddington Bear bit yesterday, and that did raise a chuckle.

Andrew S | 06.06.22 - 9:19 p.m. | #











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