Anyone Marking VE Day On Friday?

[BrandyandBabycham]

Apologies if there is an existing thread for this. We haven’t planned anything but DH saw a programme somewhere that you can follow, including afternoon tea in the garden & a singalong of “ We’ll Meet Again”. Is anyone celebrating?

No. It's yet another gammonfest, organised by the sort of people who bought far too many Commando comics.

Yes we will be. We have bunting and cream tea ready. We have a WWII jeep, so she'll be out on the drive.

It’s a bloody weird thing

There's stuff going on at my school for it but I'm not the rota so avoiding that and won't be doing anything at home.

Like a pp, I wasn't pleased that we lost the proper Mayday bank holiday for this.

May Day has traditions going back a very long time. Hastings (near me) has the Jack in the Green celebrations and other events that (even without lockdown) were going to be completely messed up by the change.

If this hadn't been set up for a shabby bit of Brexit milking, why did they get rid of the May Day bank holiday?

I hope that our politicians use the ceremony to talk about how freedom is important and how we should celebrate and commemorate how people came together to fight fascism and reflect on how we can stop such events happening again. And how many people in other countries don't have such freedoms in their lives.

I hope they will.

I'll be working in a school. They are still open.

I hope that everyone who whinges about school holidays blah blah blah enjoys their day off

I find the celebrations weird. I remember the 50th party but that made more sense to me because my Nan hosted it and she was actually alive in the war and celebrated real VE Day. Celebrating it as someone who never experienced anything like it feels odd.

I feel like it should be a more sombre reflection like Remembrance Day and Holocaust Memorial Day, not a celebration.

Also agree with PP's about VJ Day - my grandad was a POW in the Far East and the war was certainly not over for him in May 45 but we seem to mostly ignore that.

So no, I won't be celebrating but I will be thinking about my grandparents and the awful experiences they had.

It never even crossed my mind to. I can’t believe how people are going all out for it.

No. Sacrifice should be honoured and peace always celebrated but this is too much jingoistic shite for me in the current climate.

I think people need to get over WW2 and their admiration or it. It’s weird.

I don't normally celebrate but this year it might help break the monotony of staying at home. Also, 9th of may is Europe day. Might mark it somehow.

It actually makes me feel a bit uneasy. I don't think we should keep "celebrating" this. I think it is time to move on.
It's not just about celebrating, it's more about remembering. Aren't we supposed to do that to remind us not to do it again? Have any of you watched those programmes on Bbc2 this week at 7pm? The stories and people are just amazing.
I will be putting out the bunting and having a scone.

No, we will talk to DC about it but my neighbours sent me an angry letter because I missed one week of the fucking clapping whilst my baby was unwell (DH and 2 DC were still out clapping but it's more poignant for the whole community to attend, I let the entire street down) so I won't be taking part in any more doorstep wankery, nor will we be having tea and scones in our front garden. If anyone fixes bunting to my front fence they will be shitting it back out for a week
My lovely grandpa was a child in the war and he doesn't like how for show it all seems.

VE Day, although marking a milestone, was not the end of the war, and people were fighting and dying well beyond May 1945.

It was the end of the war as far as the people of most countries in Europe were concerned. That is reflected in the number of countries that, unlike the UK, commemorate it every year with a bank holiday.

However, I agree, in the UK VJ day should be given equal or even greater importance.

I asked my German NDN if he'd be celebrating VE day - he laughed.

My DF (long departed) was a Japanese POW for over 4 years so VE day didn't mark the end of his war & had no meaning for him.

So no - I won't be taking part in anything.

No it seems a bit pointless in the current circumstances. I’ll give a thought to my deceased grandparents and that’s about it. I’m a pacifist and not much into big displays of Nationalism or forced activities.

It's gone a bit weird like everything right now. I feel a bit twilight zoney about it.

Good lord no. Gammonfest, jingoistic street parties hosted by people who think Boris is doing a grand job when 30,000+ people have died in a matter of weeks? No ta.

Well we've just put our bunting up, and an older couple walking past said how nice it was.
It can be up for today (clap for carers) tomorrow (VE day) and Saturday (Jersey's Liberation Day) and come down on Sunday.

@SquirtleSquad sorry that you've got such twatty neighbours. No doubt they'll be celebrating VE day, completely oblivious that fighting for freedom included fighting for personal freedom (which includes the right to join in or to abstain from any neighbourhood celebrations).

Nothing in our cul de sac, but I think we will allow ourselves a bank holiday. I feel like making scones for it or recreate some war time recipes. Does anyone have any ideas on the catering front?

Nothing on our road thank God. I think it's all a bit weird and there's no way people will maintain appropriate social distancing either.

DH has been working throughout this and he's off tomorrow so we'll probably go out for a nice walk with the dog and then spend the afternoon relaxing in the garden!

Tonight I will be decorating the care home, I work in. Tomorrow i will be sleeping, then going back to work that night.

I’m doing bits with my DC during their homeschool lessons. We’re doing some wartime recipes from Twinkl & they’re learning about their Great Grandparents & Grandparents involvement. I live in a flat in central London & I’ve not seen anyone suggesting any community activity!