My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Some on them flown in from Iraq last week.
Wow. Didn't even know we still had guys over there.
Did the ABoC just come out as a Socialist? - 'Those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.'
So the Church of England is no longer the Conservative Party at prayer?
The C of E congregation largely still are, the C of E clergy though are largely LD or Starmer Labour with a few notable exceptions like high Tory Reverend Marcus Walker
It was a poor joke relating to the distant past HY.
So did we piss anyone or any country off then with funeral placement ? I cannot imagine Biden or the US being pleased with the 14th row behind the President of Poland for instance
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Do we know it was the same guys all the way through?
Whoever it was: chapeau
I'm sure it was. Same young blond chap front left corner. None looked older than 25.
Yeah he reminded me of Rob Beckett a bit
I tried to count the stripes they had. 2 I think had 3 (sergeant?), 1 had 2 (corporal?) And I think 5 had none so I'm guessing they were Privates.
Three chevrons is the equivalent of a corporal (called a Lance-Sergeant), two is the equivalent of a lance-corporal but the Foot Guards don't have lance-corporals so they are called corporals.
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Do we know it was the same guys all the way through?
Whoever it was: chapeau
I'm sure it was. Same young blond chap front left corner. None looked older than 25.
Yeah he reminded me of Rob Beckett a bit
I tried to count the stripes they had. 2 I think had 3 (sergeant?), 1 had 2 (corporal?) And I think 5 had none so I'm guessing they were Privates.
Three chevrons is the equivalent of a corporal (called a Lance-Sergeant), two is the equivalent of a lance-corporal but the Foot Guards don't have lance-corporals so they are called corporals.
All clear?
Thanks. Not really. But I love these idiosyncrasies. Never heard of a lance-sergeant. Were they all Foot Guards? Don't care. They were great. Who gets one chevron?
So did we piss anyone or any country off then with funeral placement ? I cannot imagine Biden or the US being pleased with the 14th row behind the President of Poland for instance
Twat cancelled his date with kinky Liz T
ALSO I love belonging to a country that puts the President of the USA in row 14.
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Do we know it was the same guys all the way through?
Whoever it was: chapeau
I'm sure it was. Same young blond chap front left corner. None looked older than 25.
Yeah he reminded me of Rob Beckett a bit
I tried to count the stripes they had. 2 I think had 3 (sergeant?), 1 had 2 (corporal?) And I think 5 had none so I'm guessing they were Privates.
Three chevrons is the equivalent of a corporal (called a Lance-Sergeant), two is the equivalent of a lance-corporal but the Foot Guards don't have lance-corporals so they are called corporals.
All clear?
Thanks. Not really. But I love these idiosyncrasies. Never heard of a lance-sergeant. Were they all Foot Guards? Don't care. They were great. Who gets one chevron?
A good thing, I think. Will hopefully encourage in time some re-thinking of what Britain is, can be, or should be.
The reinvention of Great Britain
Hate to harsh your mellow but as @OldKingCole was saying, people said that in 1953.
Those people were right. Great Britain's been reinvented three or four times since then.
The country has been completely transformed since then, repeatedly.
But as Sunder Katwala pointed out yesterday, that may only have been possible because of the continuity of constitutional monarchy.
He correctly quoted various researchers as saying one of the best defences against authoritarian populism is simutlaneously reassuring conservatives of certain continuities, while at the same time allowing many others the freedom to change in ways they want.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
So did we piss anyone or any country off then with funeral placement ? I cannot imagine Biden or the US being pleased with the 14th row behind the President of Poland for instance
Twat cancelled his date with kinky Liz T
ALSO I love belonging to a country that puts the President of the USA in row 14.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Do we know it was the same guys all the way through?
Whoever it was: chapeau
I'm sure it was. Same young blond chap front left corner. None looked older than 25.
Yeah he reminded me of Rob Beckett a bit
I tried to count the stripes they had. 2 I think had 3 (sergeant?), 1 had 2 (corporal?) And I think 5 had none so I'm guessing they were Privates.
Three chevrons is the equivalent of a corporal (called a Lance-Sergeant), two is the equivalent of a lance-corporal but the Foot Guards don't have lance-corporals so they are called corporals.
All clear?
Thanks. Not really. But I love these idiosyncrasies. Never heard of a lance-sergeant. Were they all Foot Guards? Don't care. They were great. Who gets one chevron?
Ha! It's a bit different in the Household Division (ie the Guards).
The army has lance-corporal, corporal, and sergeant, with one, two, and three stripes (chevrons) respectively.
The Household Division has corporal, lance -sergeant, and gold sergeant and the Guards don't have one chevron. Or lance-corporals.
So an army lance-corporal is equivalent to a Foot Guards corporal and so on. They are the same rank, just called different things.
There are plenty of funny/nice idiosyncrasies or regimental customs like that in the army which the army encourages as it promotes an esprit de corps. As John Keegan I think said: I didn't join the army, I joined the 10th Hussars.
Today, the Bearer Party was found by The Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, whose company commander is The Queen.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
🥂
No sadness involved, merely correcting the record.
ETA that emoji looks to me like chicken drumsticks with lacy white paper round the end.
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Do we know it was the same guys all the way through?
Whoever it was: chapeau
I'm sure it was. Same young blond chap front left corner. None looked older than 25.
Yeah he reminded me of Rob Beckett a bit
I tried to count the stripes they had. 2 I think had 3 (sergeant?), 1 had 2 (corporal?) And I think 5 had none so I'm guessing they were Privates.
Three chevrons is the equivalent of a corporal (called a Lance-Sergeant), two is the equivalent of a lance-corporal but the Foot Guards don't have lance-corporals so they are called corporals.
All clear?
Thanks. Not really. But I love these idiosyncrasies. Never heard of a lance-sergeant. Were they all Foot Guards? Don't care. They were great. Who gets one chevron?
Ha! It's a bit different in the Household Division (ie the Guards).
The army has lance-corporal, corporal, and sergeant, with one, two, and three stripes (chevrons) respectively.
The Household Division has corporal, lance -sergeant, and gold sergeant and the Guards don't have one chevron. Or lance-corporals.
So an army lance-corporal is equivalent to a Foot Guards corporal and so on. They are the same rank, just called different things.
There are plenty of funny/nice idiosyncrasies or regimental customs like that in the army which the army encourages as it promotes an esprit de corps. As John Keegan I think said: I didn't join the army, I joined the 10th Hussars.
Today, the Bearer Party was found by The Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, whose company commander is The Queen.
My heroes of the day are the 8 pall bearers. I make it they had to do 5 separate transfers during the day. So much pressure and didn't put a foot wrong. Enjoy a beer tonight.
Going up the chapel steps. Tricky, but done perfectly.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Welby disappointed today in comparison with the Dean of Windsor and the Herald who did the Royal titles bit. If I meet him ever I will riff on a joke of Byron's and greet him with "What a Cantuar!"
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
President Biden needs to get back quickly to help coordinate the recovery from Hurricane Fiona: "Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Monday that Hurricane Fiona has caused “catastrophic” destruction in urban areas, killing at least one person and leaving nearly the entire island archipelago without power.
The slow-moving Category 1 storm could drop upward of 30 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said. Intense rain is flooding rivers, triggering landslides and destroying homes, roads and bridges. The governor estimated “billions” in damage and warned that rain is expected to continue falling until Tuesday evening." source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/19/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-live-updates/
Most likely other deaths will be reported as the island recovers, but we can be thankful that this is, so far, orders of magnitude less deadly than Hurricane Maria, five years ago.
I think wrung out is how I'd describe myself today. I got overwhelmed by emotion twice and came bloody close on at least two other occasions.
Pride, gratitude, sorrow, inspiration, sorrow again, astonishment, respect, a smile, a sense of awe, and then a deep intense sorrow. Maybe even horror. Then, a release. An emptiness. A look to the future on the drive home. A lament for the past. A lot of reflection.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
I think wrung out is how I'd describe myself today. I got overwhelmed by emotion twice and came bloody close on at least two other occasions.
Pride, gratitude, sorrow, inspiration, sorrow again, astonishment, respect, a smile, a sense of awe, and then a deep intense sorrow. Maybe even horror. Then, a release. An emptiness. A look to the future on the drive home. A lament for the past. A lot of reflection.
Unceasingly powerful.
You are eloquent on this subject. It takes a royalist to express it, I guess
Between the Queens best mate from primary school and the Niue ambassador.
No-one ever out trumped HMQEII. She had two modes: as a person she was always among equals; as queen she was never outdone. Not by Trump, not by Boris, not by the IRA, not nobody. I think the only exception was the pope, whom she met as head of state and as humble equals before God.
Between the Queens best mate from primary school and the Niue ambassador.
No-one ever out trumped HMQEII. She had two modes: as a person she was always among equals; as queen she was never outdone. Not by Trump, not by Boris, not by the IRA, not nobody. I think the only exception was the pope, whom she met as head of state and as humble equals before God.
And Biden needed to be taken down a peg or 14. GET ON THE BUS.
Trump would have muscled into the front row between King Charles and Queen Camilla.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
Somewhere else I read it was because he refused to take the bus like other ordinary president-citizens, n'est-ce-pas ?
I can understand he might be behind commonwealth heads of state. Not sure why behind Poland.
Alphabetical order of non-Commonwealth? They can do it the other way round next time.
Probably by order of precedence, i.e. length of tenure.
That would make sense - clear and unarguable and above all predictable (though I wonder how they deal with second-term Presidents, esp. if there is a gap).
President Biden needs to get back quickly to help coordinate the recovery from Hurricane Fiona: "Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Monday that Hurricane Fiona has caused “catastrophic” destruction in urban areas, killing at least one person and leaving nearly the entire island archipelago without power.
The slow-moving Category 1 storm could drop upward of 30 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said. Intense rain is flooding rivers, triggering landslides and destroying homes, roads and bridges. The governor estimated “billions” in damage and warned that rain is expected to continue falling until Tuesday evening." source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/19/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-live-updates/
Most likely other deaths will be reported as the island recovers, but we can be thankful that this is, so far, orders of magnitude less deadly than Hurricane Maria, five years ago.
Sounds bad but I was thinking isn't an F hurricane very late in September or am I just misremembering my ? Has it been a quiet season?
Jacinda has a tough fight at the next GE so unlikely to want to open that can of worms
And her opponent Christopher Luxon is a strong monarchist
If Australia “goes”, then it will be almost impossible for NZ to escape that gravity.
Not necessarily, NZ likes defining itself against Australia, see also Canada defining itself against the US having kept the monarchy for centuries after the US became a republic
The NZ does not define itself “against” Australia in the way you think it does.
You know nothing of the subject.
Last time I mistook a New Zealander for an Australian in London, I got a death stare before quickly being told in very strong terms they were actually a Kiwi
Possibly because you were rude and assumed where somebody was from, rather than asking them?
No, New Zealanders are generally not as wealthy as Australians but they still consider themselves intellectually and culturally superior and not as money focused. See also Canadians and Americans
New Zealand got a lot poorer when we joined the EU. Hopefully some of that business can find its way back to NZ now.
NZ has done very well thanks over the past twenty years and is likely to overtake the UK in average living standards this decade.
Indeed Luckyguy1983 has it backwards, since the UK joined the EU it was the UK that struggled economically, not other English speaking nations. Every other English speaking developed nation has grown faster than the UK since 1993, not slower.
Australia was much poorer than the UK per capita at the start of the 90s, now it is much, much richer poor capita. NZ was much, much poorer than the UK per capita then, but now its about the same.
Hopefully now that we're out of the EU, we can start to recover and grow like non-EU English speaking nations like NZ and Australia etc have.
I know we've had this argument a gazillion times, but the UK's economy doesn't look anything like Australia or New Zealand.
Australia has massively benefitted from having enormous quantities of cheaply extractable raw materials, at exactly the time that China (which happens to be very close) has needed them.
Three thousand miles is hardly 'very close.'
Well: for a start most of Australia's raw material exports aren't coming from Sydney.
Natural gas and oil comes from the Northwest Shelf, while Coal comes from Queensland.
Secondly: a massive mine near the coast is in a fantastic position to export to China.
If you have coal in Queensland, where do you think the nearest large markets for coal are?
Likewise, if you are in Guangzhou, where do you think the easiest place to buy coal from is?
South Africa is a lot further. Ditton Colombia.
I was measuring from Darwin to Nanning. From Sydney it would be a lot further.
And yes, I take your point that it's closer than any other major market/resource combination for the two, but that doesn't make it close. It's the difference between saying 'Yeltsin was a good President' and 'Yeltsin is a better president than Putin.'
The point is that it is the closest. It is one of Barty’s little conceits that geography doesn’t matter when it comes to trade.
It used to matter a lot, lot more.
It doesn't matter anywhere near as much nowadays as other issues do - including yes of course what competitive advantages you have (like resources).
Making the most of your advantages, globally, improves trade more than obsessing over geography.
Doesn't it depend on what you're selling?
If it's fresh bread, then proximity is very important, because it requires physical transportation, has low value to volume, and spoils easily.
If it's something entirely digital, then proximity is irrelevant, because it can be delivered to pretty much anywhere on earth, instantaneously, and at zero additional cost.
And other goods come in between, with the key issues being how much shipping is of the total cost of the product, and whether (and how quickly) a product depreciates.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I think wrung out is how I'd describe myself today. I got overwhelmed by emotion twice and came bloody close on at least two other occasions.
Pride, gratitude, sorrow, inspiration, sorrow again, astonishment, respect, a smile, a sense of awe, and then a deep intense sorrow. Maybe even horror. Then, a release. An emptiness. A look to the future on the drive home. A lament for the past. A lot of reflection.
Unceasingly powerful.
You are eloquent on this subject. It takes a royalist to express it, I guess
Anyway: bravo
You don't feel it? Perhaps like an atheist trying to describe the religious experience.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Open Cava, stir in 1tsp marmite (easiest to pre-mix), 1tsp honey and about 20ml fino or manzanilla sherry, and pour out a decent aged house champagne.
Apparently the protocol was royals from other countries take precedence but Macron was seated row 6 , still ahead of Biden.
Lot of rows between 6 and 14.
Maybe it was done alphabetically - I can’t be arsed to see/work out who was between them but France being 6 and USA being 14 would probably make some sort of sense.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I just don't get on with non-champagne bubbles remember when everyone was going crazy about Cremant de this, that and the other.
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Edit: forsaken for a Highland Pony I'd break out the Crystal.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Open Cava, stir in 1tsp marmite (easiest to pre-mix), 1tsp honey and about 20ml fino or manzanilla sherry, and pour out a decent aged house champagne.
Also any red wine above 14% abv: decant and add water to dilute to 13%. Opens it up. Doesn’t work with white.
For the first time in what feels like ages* I have put a jumper on at home. Can certainly feel the temperature starting to drop. I was determined to get to October without putting the gas on. Not sure I'll make it now.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I just don't get on with non-champagne bubbles remember when everyone was going crazy about Cremant de this, that and the other.
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Cremant is disgusting. It makes me doubt all champagne sometimes
I started the day with Nyetimber rose and the Fortnum’s Roederer is definitely a step down
The English are now making arguably the best sparkling wine in the world
Apparently the protocol was royals from other countries take precedence but Macron was seated row 6 , still ahead of Biden.
Lot of rows between 6 and 14.
Maybe it was done alphabetically - I can’t be arsed to see/work out who was between them but France being 6 and USA being 14 would probably make some sort of sense.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Open Cava, stir in 1tsp marmite (easiest to pre-mix), 1tsp honey and about 20ml fino or manzanilla sherry, and pour out a decent aged house champagne.
VERY interesting. I read about the fino sherry trick in another context the other day - to uprate claret was it?
My latest wheeze: after you have steeped your sloe gin for a couple of months and strained it off, fill up with sherry and leave for a couple of weeks, then put in hunting flask. Not done this yet but seems worth a try.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I just don't get on with non-champagne bubbles remember when everyone was going crazy about Cremant de this, that and the other.
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Edit: forsaken for a Highland Pony I'd break out the Crystal.
Morrisons “extra special” own label English Sparkling is actually 2010 Nyetimber and was only about £24 last time I looked.
Apparently the protocol was royals from other countries take precedence but Macron was seated row 6 , still ahead of Biden.
Lot of rows between 6 and 14.
Maybe it was done alphabetically - I can’t be arsed to see/work out who was between them but France being 6 and USA being 14 would probably make some sort of sense.
It maybe was but still not good politics , sometimes people just need to think a bit about these things
Apparently the protocol was royals from other countries take precedence but Macron was seated row 6 , still ahead of Biden.
Lot of rows between 6 and 14.
Maybe it was done alphabetically - I can’t be arsed to see/work out who was between them but France being 6 and USA being 14 would probably make some sort of sense.
It maybe was but still not good politics , sometimes people just need to think a bit about these things
There's a very strict set of guidelines in terms of precedence for these things, so that those organising these things don't have to make up stuff on the spot. For heads of state the order is based on how long they have been in office.
Trump would have muscled into the front row between King Charles and Queen Camilla.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
Somewhere else I read it was because he refused to take the bus like other ordinary president-citizens, n'est-ce-pas ?
I can understand he might be behind commonwealth heads of state. Not sure why behind Poland.
yes , these things should not matter but of course they do , own goal really to piss of the USA needlessly .
Who gives a fuck. Our queen. Our funeral
Australia and Canada and all the other realms were and are way more important. On this occasion
If we were just honouring geopolitical power then we’d have Xi, Putin and Erdogan in row 1
🤮
Indeed and it was the US who decided to become independent and a republic centuries ago. The Queen was held in particular affection in France, spoke fluent French and Macron paid great tribute to her.
Tributes to the Queen aside Biden is hardly a fan of the current Truss led UK anyway, though he might get on better with Starmer
For the first time in what feels like ages* I have put a jumper on at home. Can certainly feel the temperature starting to drop. I was determined to get to October without putting the gas on. Not sure I'll make it now.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I just don't get on with non-champagne bubbles remember when everyone was going crazy about Cremant de this, that and the other.
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Edit: forsaken for a Highland Pony I'd break out the Crystal.
Morrisons “extra special” own label English Sparkling is actually 2010 Nyetimber and was only about £24 last time I looked.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
On the other hand they have brought back their heated clothing airer, saves a fortune compared to tumble dryers.
Trump would have muscled into the front row between King Charles and Queen Camilla.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
Somewhere else I read it was because he refused to take the bus like other ordinary president-citizens, n'est-ce-pas ?
I can understand he might be behind commonwealth heads of state. Not sure why behind Poland.
yes , these things should not matter but of course they do , own goal really to piss of the USA needlessly .
Who gives a fuck. Our queen. Our funeral
Australia and Canada and all the other realms were and are way more important. On this occasion
If we were just honouring geopolitical power then we’d have Xi, Putin and Erdogan in row 1
🤮
Indeed and it was the US who decided to become independent and a republic centuries ago. The Queen was held in particular affection in France, spoke fluent French and Macron paid great tribute to her.
Tributes to the Queen aside Biden is hardly a fan of the current Truss led UK anyway, though he might get on better with Starmer
The French do get precedence in the "countries once invaded by England etc" stakes.
Trump would have muscled into the front row between King Charles and Queen Camilla.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
Somewhere else I read it was because he refused to take the bus like other ordinary president-citizens, n'est-ce-pas ?
I can understand he might be behind commonwealth heads of state. Not sure why behind Poland.
yes , these things should not matter but of course they do , own goal really to piss of the USA needlessly .
Who gives a fuck. Our queen. Our funeral
Australia and Canada and all the other realms were and are way more important. On this occasion
If we were just honouring geopolitical power then we’d have Xi, Putin and Erdogan in row 1
🤮
Indeed and it was the US who decided to become independent and a republic centuries ago. The Queen was held in particular affection in France, spoke fluent French and Macron paid great tribute to her.
Tributes to the Queen aside Biden is hardly a fan of the current Truss led UK anyway, though he might get on better with Starmer
Yep. Hopefully Trump will win in 2024
And Meloni in Italy. Then they can all sit in the front row with orban and the new Swedish government for the coronation
Trump would have muscled into the front row between King Charles and Queen Camilla.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
Somewhere else I read it was because he refused to take the bus like other ordinary president-citizens, n'est-ce-pas ?
I can understand he might be behind commonwealth heads of state. Not sure why behind Poland.
yes , these things should not matter but of course they do , own goal really to piss of the USA needlessly .
Who gives a fuck. Our queen. Our funeral
Australia and Canada and all the other realms were and are way more important. On this occasion
If we were just honouring geopolitical power then we’d have Xi, Putin and Erdogan in row 1
🤮
Indeed and it was the US who decided to become independent and a republic centuries ago. The Queen was held in particular affection in France, spoke fluent French and Macron paid great tribute to her.
Tributes to the Queen aside Biden is hardly a fan of the current Truss led UK anyway, though he might get on better with Starmer
Yep. Hopefully Trump will win in 2024
And Meloni in Italy. Then they can all sit in the front row with orban and the new Swedish government for the coronation
KCIII won't be crowned till after mid-January 2025? Huge if true.
I have inadvertently misled the house. After giving it large about vintage Mailly from BBR I was expecting someone to come round and drink with me. Now not happening, and rather than drink that on my own I have defaulted to Tescos cava. Which at under £6 a bottle and quite often 25% off 6 is the biggest bargain in the country.
Cheer up. We’re drinking with you
🥂
Yeah but not Tesco's cava. Jeez.
Hey fck off, I bet you it would knock spots off Aldi "Champagne" in a blind tasting.
Very sadly Aldi have discontinued their world (and definitely Tesco's cava-) beating Monsigny champagne. So we will never know (I know).
Cava is ugely underrated stuff, why people pay lots more for carbonated prosecco is a mystery (cava is methode champenoise). I drink enough good champagne to not bother with the cheapies.
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
I just don't get on with non-champagne bubbles remember when everyone was going crazy about Cremant de this, that and the other.
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Edit: forsaken for a Highland Pony I'd break out the Crystal.
Morrisons “extra special” own label English Sparkling is actually 2010 Nyetimber and was only about £24 last time I looked.
paulyork64 asked: "Sounds bad but I was thinking isn't an F hurricane very late in September or am I just misremembering my ? Has it been a quiet season?"
Category 1 is the weakest and -- so far -- it has been a very quiet season. But the immense amounts of rainfall in a short period, as happened with Fiona in Puerto Rico, can do terrible damage, even if the winds are -- for a hurricane -- not all that strong.
Right now it is hitting the Domincan Republic, and is, the forecasters say, headed for Newfoundland, by Saturday morning.
They should collect up the Paddington toys left for the Queen and send them to kids in Ukraine - Zelensky did the Ukraine dubbing for Paddington so would be a nice touch.
For the first time in what feels like ages* I have put a jumper on at home. Can certainly feel the temperature starting to drop. I was determined to get to October without putting the gas on. Not sure I'll make it now.
*Probably about 3 months.
Oddly enough, although I love knitting jumpers, I don’t wear them that much. Don’t tend to feel the cold much.
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Losers - Caitlin Moran
https://youtu.be/YxUlboN70GI
The country has been completely transformed since then, repeatedly.
ALSO I love belonging to a country that puts the President of the USA in row 14.
HAHAHAHAHA
He correctly quoted various researchers as saying one of the best defences against authoritarian populism is simutlaneously reassuring conservatives of certain continuities, while at the same time allowing many others the freedom to change in ways they want.
Roger Whittaker's The Last Farewell has been playing out in my head all day, and I can't say I like whistling. And Elton John's "Empty Garden".
Macron squirrelled away in row 6. Good work
🥂
The army has lance-corporal, corporal, and sergeant, with one, two, and three stripes (chevrons) respectively.
The Household Division has corporal, lance -sergeant, and gold sergeant and the Guards don't have one chevron. Or lance-corporals.
So an army lance-corporal is equivalent to a Foot Guards corporal and so on. They are the same rank, just called different things.
There are plenty of funny/nice idiosyncrasies or regimental customs like that in the army which the army encourages as it promotes an esprit de corps. As John Keegan I think said: I didn't join the army, I joined the 10th Hussars.
Today, the Bearer Party was found by The Queen's Company, Grenadier Guards, whose company commander is The Queen.
No sadness involved, merely correcting the record.
ETA that emoji looks to me like chicken drumsticks with lacy white paper round the end.
The New York Post (which is an awful Murdoch? scandal sheet) are right, it is a massive snub. Give us out trade deal baldy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqCJlCp1jr0
😢
"Puerto Rican Gov. Pedro Pierluisi said Monday that Hurricane Fiona has caused “catastrophic” destruction in urban areas, killing at least one person and leaving nearly the entire island archipelago without power.
The slow-moving Category 1 storm could drop upward of 30 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center said. Intense rain is flooding rivers, triggering landslides and destroying homes, roads and bridges. The governor estimated “billions” in damage and warned that rain is expected to continue falling until Tuesday evening."
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/19/hurricane-fiona-puerto-rico-live-updates/
Most likely other deaths will be reported as the island recovers, but we can be thankful that this is, so far, orders of magnitude less deadly than Hurricane Maria, five years ago.
Now of course there is Ukraine and the price of gas, etc, but what do we think will be filling up 96% of the BBC News.
Pride, gratitude, sorrow, inspiration, sorrow again, astonishment, respect, a smile, a sense of awe, and then a deep intense sorrow. Maybe even horror. Then, a release. An emptiness. A look to the future on the drive home. A lament for the past. A lot of reflection.
Unceasingly powerful.
Anyway: bravo
Im sure it was once played at Anfield and they booed it
If it's fresh bread, then proximity is very important, because it requires physical transportation, has low value to volume, and spoils easily.
If it's something entirely digital, then proximity is irrelevant, because it can be delivered to pretty much anywhere on earth, instantaneously, and at zero additional cost.
And other goods come in between, with the key issues being how much shipping is of the total cost of the product, and whether (and how quickly) a product depreciates.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/19/friends-actually-the-truth-about-the-couple-who-hit-it-off-queueing-to-see-the-queens-coffin
And anyway my gf who was coming round to drink the good stuff used to groom for, produce and show HMQ Highland ponies for her. So there.
Who gives a fuck. Our queen. Our funeral
Australia and Canada and all the other realms were and are way more important. On this occasion
If we were just honouring geopolitical power then we’d have Xi, Putin and Erdogan in row 1
🤮
Although I do like (but obviously can't afford) Nyetimber.
Edit: forsaken for a Highland Pony I'd break out the Crystal.
*Probably about 3 months.
I started the day with Nyetimber rose and the Fortnum’s Roederer is definitely a step down
The English are now making arguably the best sparkling wine in the world
My latest wheeze: after you have steeped your sloe gin for a couple of months and strained it off, fill up with sherry and leave for a couple of weeks, then put in hunting flask. Not done this yet but seems worth a try.
Tributes to the Queen aside Biden is hardly a fan of the current Truss led UK anyway, though he might get on better with Starmer
Changing times...
And Meloni in Italy. Then they can all sit in the front row with orban and the new Swedish government for the coronation
TY for that.
Category 1 is the weakest and -- so far -- it has been a very quiet season. But the immense amounts of rainfall in a short period, as happened with Fiona in Puerto Rico, can do terrible damage, even if the winds are -- for a hurricane -- not all that strong.
Right now it is hitting the Domincan Republic, and is, the forecasters say, headed for Newfoundland, by Saturday morning.