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So where were you..

164 replies

Playplayaway · 08/09/2022 19:21

When the Queen died?

I was stirring dinner and dd was laying the table. I suspect a lot of us were cooking dinner. A moment we'll always remember.

RIP Your majesty.

OP posts:
BearSoFair · 08/09/2022 20:25

Leaving work. When we turned the radio off it was still normal programming and music, rang DH 5 mins later to say I was on my way so he could get dinner started and he told me.

SparkyBlue · 08/09/2022 20:26

DS who is very unwell with a bug was sitting in my arms on the comfy chair as we call it and DH noticed the shot of the flag at half mast. I've had bbc news on in the background all day and then we all just stopped. I don't know why but I really wanted to hear the initial official announcement

tabletipper · 08/09/2022 20:26

in my back garden tanning on my lunch break ( live in Texas but British)

Wouldloveanother · 08/09/2022 20:27

Drying DD after her bath and getting her changed for bed when the newsflash appeared on my phone. RIP ♥️

SparkyBlue · 08/09/2022 20:27

youcantry · 08/09/2022 20:14

Indoors preparing myself for my friends funeral tomorrow, aged 51

I'm very sorry for your loss

Cheeselog · 08/09/2022 20:27

Sitting on the sofa, listening to the radio essentially waiting for it.

lifesnotfair321 · 08/09/2022 20:28

Making burritos in the kitchen.

Twoscotcheggsandajarofmarmite · 08/09/2022 20:28

Having a wee! I’d been glued to the television all afternoon waiting for an announcement, nipped to the loo and missed it.

Mitsouko67 · 08/09/2022 20:29

Drinking sherry with my lovely neighbour watching BBC.

FelicityFidget · 08/09/2022 20:29

Having my boobs checked by my oncologist

TheDivineOddity · 08/09/2022 20:30

I was cooking dinner with the BBC news on in the kitchen when it was announced, it felt surreal.
She was 96 years old and it's surely not a surprise but it feels like the world has shifted somehow.
There will never be her like again, she was truly magnificent.

DisneyFan1 · 08/09/2022 20:32

Upstairs making a bottle, had just put DD to bed and was getting ready to put DS to bed.

DH came to the bottom of the stairs to tell me they'd just announced it, he said it felt like it (the actual announcement at that moment, not her death) came from nowhere.

Andante57 · 08/09/2022 20:33

In a taxi in a traffic jam feeling very frustrated as I was going to miss my train.
Then the news flashed up and my problems seemed pretty irrelevant.

Turmerictolly · 08/09/2022 20:35

At a school meeting and all the phones started pinging.

Facecream · 08/09/2022 20:35

Speaking to my Irish mum and her saying she thinks she’s already dead and me saying it’s going to be sad oh there is the flag at half mast and she went off to watch it.
Its odd for me to have been a British civil servant and proud of the queen for her actions in Ireland and seeing her announced death live and feeling sad, which I didn’t expect

HebeSunshine · 08/09/2022 20:35

I was watching the news waiting for an announcement (which posters on here said would be 6pm) but it never came so went to the kitchen to start dinner and then I heard it.

Very sad.

Bluebellsand · 08/09/2022 20:35

I found out just as I was handing my phone over to ds1. My dbro sent a family group text letting us know. I held onto my phone a bit longer and told the dc the news.

ThomasinaGallico · 08/09/2022 20:39

We were cooking dinner. We’d been following the BBC coverage and getting the general sense that Operation London Bridge was happening. That sort of news is hard to watch through and we switched over to The Simpsons for a break.

DH then told me there was an on-screen announcement to switch to Sky News for breaking news. I didn’t see that as I was checking the potatoes for the mash…but we switched over to BBC1 and called DS down to watch the announcement as the screen went black.

I then rang my mum for a chat. Must confess to have shed a tear or two, but had the slightly trivial thought that the National Anthem will rhyme again now.

mountainsunsets · 08/09/2022 20:42

Watching Below Deck Down Under, but we switched to the news for a bit and watched BBC.

justcantgetenough · 08/09/2022 20:43

At the cinema, had heard it wasn't looking good before going in. Rushed for the bus afterwards and switched phone on and message from DP

limitededitionbarbie · 08/09/2022 20:43

Watching my Dd at her martial arts class.

All the parents sit and watch and it went like a ripple though the group.

I feel very sad I liked our Queen. She was a great Queen. Rest in peace.

feckoffbrian · 08/09/2022 20:45

I was swimming in the lake, and I was really really excited as I saw a kingfisher for several minutes.

When I got out, I picked up my phone to call my DD and tell her my news, only to see several messages with the sad news.

WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps · 08/09/2022 20:46

I was sitting in the garden, watching a butterfly on a flower... (Been sunny and nice today.) I knew she was very ill, and her family were around her etc, but did not expect her to die. DH came to me (about 10 minutes before dinner was ready,) and said 'she's gone.......' Sad

AdoraBell · 08/09/2022 20:50

Watching BBC coverage. I noticed the flag not at the top of the pole on Buckingham Palace a few minutes before the announcement. DH had just left for a drink with a friend.

Bunnyfuller · 08/09/2022 20:51

I suspect she died a couple of hours before it was announced, but embarrassingly, I was trawling FB and a post from a friend had a picture of a rainbow over Buck House this afternoon and an RIP message.

I’m no royalist but it’s very surreal, living through significant history, again.