If you’re going to Buckingham Palace to lay flowers

[eldorado02]

The queue typically starts at Hyde Park Corner, so head there to save time.

it’s a wonderful, reverent atmosphere ❤️

I am torn with the flowers but want there to be more than Diana got!
Why?

No, because the cheap flowers are shit for the environment of the planet you live on.

Just back from the Palace visiting around 1.30 probably around 2k folk and hundreds of media crews tents and kit. Probably of the crowd 10 - 15 % in black. Dozens carrying flowers which they leave on the railings. Thousands of bunches there now. Was there when Charles and Camellia came quite excited. The crowd was quite jovial but respectful with a bit of a carnival atmosphere to my mind. I was getting updates of the progress of the royals from my brother who was watching Italian TV and whatsapping them to me and I was passing them onto the group around to quite a bit of jollity.

Coppers laughing and joking with the crowd. Modest cheering when they moved amongst the crowd but didn't come near us before they walked into the Palace. If this is ground zero for the event then I don't see why anyone would cancel anything. Made me proud to be British in that there was no hysteria or fake solemnity. The half-mast flag came down to be replaced with the Royal Standard at full mast. Didn't leave flowers or feel the need to, probably a good half or more were tourists and everybody was camera phoning to the max as of course were the media.

No-one will be counting. And anyway they have different plans for these flowers and will be moving them promptly and giving a few to care homes etc while they're still fresh (if a pp is correct). So you can't go by appearances.

It's just a daft idea anyway

@LadyOfTheCanyon

That's an interesting take. Good luck and hope there will be some bonus to you from all this.

People have always laid flowers as remembrance. It's a significant moment in time and so be it.

I've sent flowers to a friend instead. I know they will be appreciated and enjoyed rather than rot in a pile of plastic.

Don't care what you think. I'll continue to judge selfish people that don't pick up after themselves.

This with bells on!! It’s a lovely gesture (however I would rather people would spend the fiver donating to the Prince’s Trust) but FFS take the cellophane off people!

Was coming here to say this! It drives me bloody mad!

Charles probably was, internally. But he has to grin and bear it. Hopefully they have the weekend to have some privacy.

Don't care what you think. I'll continue to judge selfish people that don't pick up after themselves.

Clearly.

Every Carnival, football match, sports event, festival, rally, parade, jubilee causes so much litter.

Luckily we have clean up teams that do an amazing job. So don't fret about the clean up. After the reigning monarch of 70 years has died I'm pretty sure the 'clean up' is the least of worries.

No, do fucking worry about the cleanup! It’s what makes a decent society!

Donate to St John Ambulance instead. The Queen was the sovereign head of the organisation, and they're providing first aid cover for the funeral.

Sorry. What do you mean? @Pumperthepumper

I pay my council tax and don't leave litter. I encourage my children not to leave litter. I don't have to do performative "worrying" on an internet thread to prove anything.

And yet, here you are - encouraging people to litter because someone else will clear it up. A minor, least-of-worries sort of person.

And yet, here you are - encouraging people to litter because someone else will clear it up. A minor, least-of-worries sort of person.

Nope that's not what I'm saying.

But you're so busy frothing and owning what is to be 'a decent society' that I accept that any nuanced reasoning will pass you by.

What nuanced reasoning did you miss in your post?

Pumper champ, as a " minor, least of worries sort of person" I'll leave you raging on here about leaving flowers.

And that's in the full knowledge that yes it will be cleaned up. And that of all the things that get cleaned up - flower memorials for the dead, are a pretty decent reason to get a clean up crew out. And I value that we have them.

Do you put bins out? Put litter into bins? Who do you think takes those?

Please don't lecture me on what makes a decent society.

People who are already paid to do it as part of their normal working schedule.

Not extra ‘ah, someone else will do it!’ dickheads.

*People who are already paid to do it as part of their normal working schedule.

Not extra ‘ah, someone else will do it!’ dickheads.*

Who do you think cleans up after all big events? Do you think councils are 'surprised' every time it happens?

I said it earlier but it got deleted - of all the reasons to not like the flower laying, the clean up is a pretty stupid one.

It's probably good overtime for somebody.

I also hate seeing all those flowers lined up, sweltering in their plastic. They don't look pretty. like they would in a vase in your home. Their flower-ness is obliterated by being dumped at the side of the road. They just look like a mess. It's just organised littering really.

@vera99 .
Brilliant real life update thank you!

What did you mean , no one need cancel anything?

What big events specifically?