If you’re going to Buckingham Palace to lay flowers

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

it’s a wonderful, reverent atmosphere ❤️

More landfill. I wish there was a donate to X or Y charity in lieu of flowers.

More landfill. I wish there was a donate to X or Y charity in lieu of flowers.

I'm surprised there's nowhere to donate tbh.

Hopefully a lot will go to mulch .

I saw a painted pebble amongst the tributes. If folk were minded then paint a pebble and add it to a 'cairn' that could be constructed in Green Park - they could then be incorporated into some sort of people's memorial later on. Would be cheaper and environmentally friendly as well and children could get stuck in.

This ^

As a heavily pregnant woman, I’m dreading my London commute next week with all the grief tourists clogging up the system 🙄 so unnecessary. Just give to a charity the queen was patron of. Here, I’ve been googled a list for you.

www.royal.uk/charities-and-patronages?name=&mrf=2&field_themes_target_id=&field_world_region_value=

I have no idea but I wonder how big a pile of pebbles would be if everyone left a pebble.

Such a waste, plant a tree or donate to one of her charities ffs and stop being mindless sheep for Instagram likes.

Grief tourists clogging up the system

mindless sheep

What a special thread this has turned out to be. 😁

I believe the flowers will be taken away at some point and turned into fertiliser ? I think a donation to charity is so much better . When Diana died people lay flowers outside the local Red Cross charity shop . I went in and put some money in the collection tin in the counter instead of buying flowers. The assistant thanked me and said she wished people had done the same instead of laying flowers which were being removed ( stolen ) overnight anyway . I think people are going to Buckingham Palace and laying flowers to be part of history.

They have specifically asked people not to put flowers at Buckingham Palace. There’s a memorial garden in Green Park if people must.

Yes mindless sheep. Can you really say each person laying flowers is actually grieving, for a woman they never knew? They are doing it because they've seen other people doing it and want to tell everyone they've done it. I was fond of the Queen, I don't have any disrespect for her, but the mindless waste is unnecessary.

I was thinking this yesterday. There are already so many flowers, they must be costing a fortune. Why on earth don't people donate money to a useful cause instead ? And god knows what all this pomp and ceremony is costing. I'm sure some of it could be slimmed down.

Yes mindless sheep. Can you really say each person laying flowers is actually grieving, for a woman they never knew? They are doing it because they've seen other people doing it and want to tell everyone they've done it. I was fond of the Queen, I don't have any disrespect for her, but the mindless waste is unnecessar

course not.

But you know they're not. 😁

And like it or not people all over the planet have laid flowers as a symbol for centuries.
Respect, acknowledgment, grief , whatever.

But "mindless". Hundreds of thousands of "mindless " people. Chilly up there?

I didn't know before this thread but cellophane can biodegrade, there are bins at Green Park to put plastic in and the flowers will be used as fertiliser. As were Diana's flowers. But they were caught on the hop by those ones.

It is mindless waste. It’s not just the cellophane, it’s the air miles in the flowers. It’s the costs involved in the extra cleanup. It’s the profit going to supermarkets rather than charities. Mindless is absolutely the correct word for it.

I would call it "mindful "waste.

I was sent bunches and bunches of flowers after a death recently. They all went to the bin after.

How is it mindful? Mindful of what?

It says on the BBC website that they are asking people to remove the packaging when leaving flowers.

Grief and death and respect and acknowledgment.

I saw someone on the tv clutching a bunch of M&S flowers wrapped in cellophane (£15) with the flower food attached with tape in a little plastic sachet. . I remember thinking well the flowers are not going to be seeing any of that food. What a waste.

Which is all completely possible without creating unnecessary waste.

I remember thinking well the flowers are not going to be seeing any of that food. What a waste.

Yep like all those sauce sachets lying around after big matches with the takeaway boxes.

This. What a waste of money so many flowers being laid

Which is all completely possible without creating unnecessary waste.

what your template for how to do all those emotions?

One thing I've leaned from being recently bereaved is that people have different ways to do these emotions.

Oh yes, that winds me up too. Tomatoes were harvested for that sauce and it's going in the bin, unopened.
I take any sachets of anything I have taken but not used home and use them up.

My template?

The palace should be telling people not to waste money on flowers and donate the money to their local charity or food bank.