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People camping outside the Lindo wing

94 replies

CruCru · 15/04/2018 21:37

AIBU to find this quite a weird thing to do? As far as I know, the due date of the Cambridge’s third child hasn’t been released. So the people camping (in the rain) might be there for weeks, in the hope of getting a glimpse of the Duchess of Cambridge and her third child.

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Vexatious · 15/04/2018 22:35

Last time, I think it was one of the ITV reporters, can't remember which one, was really struggling to disguise his disdain at having to be there 'reporting' on absolutely zilch.

'Well what can I say......we're all still here........waiting outside the hospital.......' Eye roll, eye roll, eye roll. I felt his pain Grin

MiggledyHiggins · 15/04/2018 22:36

How about a drinking game Ledkr? Every time she says something stupid, down your glass.

Don't do that. You'll die. Grin

DannyLaRuesBestFrock · 15/04/2018 22:36

Absolutely batshit crazy and a bit pathetic.

Vexatious · 15/04/2018 22:37

They probably keep one fellow wacko on sentry duty throughout the night whilst they snuggle down in their Diana sleeping bags. But they're confident really that a nice girl like Kate wouldn't be so discourteous as to give birth during the night.

KakunaRattata · 15/04/2018 22:37

If I pitched my tent outside the local maternity unit tonight at the very least I would be sent packing, more likely I'd be treated with a lot of suspicion. Odd.

LemonadePockets · 15/04/2018 22:39

Let’s be honest they’ll get a better look at the family and the new baby if they stay at home and watch BBC News..

Akire · 15/04/2018 22:41

I had hospital appointment about a month before her last one. It’s rigjt next to and opposite hospital buildings. People still have to get to there without people taking up all space. When I was trying get taxi there was American hogging loads of space making a news reel!

raisedbyguineapigs · 15/04/2018 22:41

I think it's ridiculous too. They must have aeons of time on their hands if they can waste it camping on the street outside a hospital. I bet Kate and Will have a good laugh at the plastic flag waving plebs waiting around outside to do their bowing and scraping to their superiors!

SouthernComforts · 15/04/2018 22:41

What do these oddballs do with the rest of their lives when they aren't creeping around outside hospitals? You never hear Dave from sales at work saying "I'm off to camp outside the Lindo Wing, see you all in a week"

Ledkr · 15/04/2018 22:42

I'm definitely up for a drinking game!
Got to be better than just cringing

SouthernComforts · 15/04/2018 22:43

The Alder Hey grief vampires are a different species all together.

Sparklingbrook · 15/04/2018 22:43

I bet KB has a phone especially for 'the call' and sleeps in her make up just in case.

raisedbyguineapigs · 15/04/2018 22:45

vexatious it was a BBC reporter Simon someone. He was so obviously underwhelmed by the whole thing. I sometimes wonder whether Nicholas Witchell wonders where it all went wrong so that he's gone from foreign correspondent to Royal C poo correspondent!

raisedbyguineapigs · 15/04/2018 22:46

Not Royal poo correspondent! Not sure where that came from fat fingers

sweetkitty · 15/04/2018 22:49

Was she not planning a homebirth? That’s what I’d do, the Royals used to do that didn’t they? Shed have the best doctors etc anyway?

MumofBoysx2 · 15/04/2018 22:50

Strange. And we at home will get better pictures anyway. Maybe they are seriously lacking entertainment in their lives!

hibbledibble · 15/04/2018 22:51

I think it's odd, but essentially harmless.

They are outside the front doors. Kate will go in the back, as she has done before. Reporters and general public camped outside is to be expected, and has happened for each of her previous children.

Sparklingbrook · 15/04/2018 22:53

There probably is a Royal poo correspondent TBF.

RaininSummer · 15/04/2018 22:53

What a peculiar thing to do. They are all a few sandwiches short of a picnic I imagine.

eddiemairswife · 15/04/2018 22:54

I too feel for Nicholas Witchell. Some years ago he was done for drink-driving, and shortly after that he was demoted to royal correspondent. I rather admire Kay Burley trying to summon up enthusiasm, and having to interview crazy royalists.

SheGotBetteDavisEyes · 15/04/2018 22:54

SparklingBrook Grin

I'm not cut out for this staring at doors malarkey. I've done it for 5 seconds and now I'm bored.

CanIBuffalo · 15/04/2018 22:56

There's not even a rubbish joke about knockers to be had from those doors.

Vexatious · 15/04/2018 22:57

You're right, raised. It was BBC's (royal poo correspondent) Simon McCoy. Here he is barely concealing his utter boredom!

Vexatious · 15/04/2018 22:59

They are all a few sandwiches short of a picnic I imagine

To be fair, that's the one thing they're probably not short of. They probably start making and freezing sandwiches as soon as the pregnancy is announced.

MorningsEleven · 15/04/2018 23:00

They probably keep one fellow wacko on sentry duty throughout the night whilst they snuggle down in their Diana sleeping bags

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