What is open on Monday 19th Sept?

[mourningafter]

For those of us lucky enough to have the day off with our kids, who don't want to watch the funeral. I would love to hear anyone's idea of how to make the most of a bonus day off. In particular if you know of anything fun that's open.

I'd prefer not to spend the day in the local park, have done that enough in the past 2 years. The only thing I've seen that's open so far is Hawksmoor which is a bit fancy for a family day!

My day out was planned before the queen died. I run my own business and choose my hours.

I am not going to change my plans. Neither do I expect the riyal family to change theirs when I die. I think that is entirely fair.

Go to somewhere that is open on a normal Bank Holiday.

Kids don't give a crap about royals and they won't give a crap in 30 years. Honestly, it's not 1920 anymore. And it'll be even more common to hate the royals by then.

When did MN become this hostile to royalist? I myself am not even a royalist however I had huge respect for the Queen
Most if us don't seem to be anti-Royalist or even anti-monarchy. What we're against is the mawkish servitude of those insisting everyone must conform to a national stereotype of hat-doffing ham-and-sovereignty that belongs to a previous century.

But why do they deserve such huge respect? They’ve not done anything to earn it. I’ll respect them as much as any other strangers I don’t know, but I’m not worshiping random people born into roles

We visit historical places all the time.

We just don't arse kiss the queen or watch boring funerals of strangers.

Kids do not watch live TV, they watch on streaming. My teenagers think my DP is hopefully old-fashioned because he looks at the BBC Tv schedules. They do not do this.

I hate to break it to you but there will be many of us not watching the funeral. I can actually think of nothing worse than spending a day watching some ones funeral on tele. And yes, she is just a someone, much like myself or my neighbour. OP I recommend you have a day trip to your closest beach, that is what our family is doing.

Couldn’t agree more. One woman locally has been told that she now can’t bury her mother for a further four weeks after the funeral. Why are some mothers deemed to be more important than others?

It isn’t hostile at all. People who don’t like royalty are the loudest. Those who do like royalty aren’t going to shout it from the rooftops.

Im not a royalist, nor is the Union Jack my flag, but I’m not an idiot. From an economic standpoint the Royal Family is a goldmine to the UK economy and the RF is central to brand Britain and Britain’s soft power status around the globe. They cost just 100 mill a year and generate unquantifiable wealth for the country. The PMs unanimously sign that cheque every year, they ain’t stupid.

The monarch (a non partisan, powerless head of state) is a cushy job as you get to be a unifying force for good and constantly partake in feel good stuff like Christmas speeches, opening places, knighting people, meeting foreign dignitaries etc. There is no other head of state on the planet that has such a role, all the others are partisan. It’s for this reason the Queen was the most popular and most respected head of state on Earth. Charles in all likelihood will be too. The role affords it.

I don't see why I have to respect someone just by virtue of the fact they were born into a certain family. She did the job she was handsomely paid to do, living in palaces and traveling the world, and using her position and wealth to ensure her son had the best legal protection and payoff money when things got dicey. Other families are having funerals cancelled on Monday due to it now being a BH, don't they deserve some respect too?

I don't begrudge the Royalists their pomp and fanfare, especially as we have so much money to burn right now, but don't expect everyone to join in. This country is fast becoming a little fascist island nation where people are told how to toe the line or else...

This thread is weird. I've also been wondering what to do with DS that day but thankfully none of my friends give a toss about the funeral either. We're hoping the weather is good as we're all heading out with our kids for a picnic. We will either head to the forest or the beach.

Yeah it’s annoying OP!

I was just just thinking “yay bonus bank holidays, what shall I do with the smalls to make the most of this unexpected gift?”

Now I can’t find anything much open…which I understand to a point…but also my 4 year old is not going to want to watch a funeral on tv all day. We’ll just go for a bike ride and walk, visit family etc so it’ll be fine but it’s not a trip to a zoo or walk at national trust!

Irrespective of personal opinions about the royal family, it is a day of significant cultural significance. Don’t deny them engagement at a level that suits them. I think the atmosphere generally will be quite subdued. Let them experience it - it’s bound to be a day that all their age talk about when they’re older and where they where and what they did etc.

We are supposed to respect them because they were born into the Royal family. They do not have to do anything. They can even by sex offenders and get involved in dodgy cash deals, we are still supposed to respect them.
We are supposed to be cap-doffing serfs.

Honestly you are letting your own Royalism run away with you.

Indeed, for some of us it's precisely because we place so much importance on transmitting history to our children that we're going to ensure they aren't exposed to what will inevitably be fawning, arselicking coverage of the event.

That's awful. I did guess a lot of places that usually open on BHs would close but it never crossed my mind they would cancel other funerals. I'm really shocked about this. And medical appointments when we've had years of getting so behind because of covid. I can't get my head round it.

Well, the great thing about living in a democracy is that you can do what you want.

OP, no one cares what you do next Monday. Why seek out attention by posting such a comment on Mumsnet?

I'm thinking of going on a walk with family, but some sites I'm thinking of are NT or RSPB so I hope car parks or nature reserves aren't closed or anything, that's the only question.

Is everywhere NT shut? I thought that might happen because of the reliance on volunteers.

There's probably an emergancy pharmacy open somewhere near?

I think cancelling funerals is awful.

DPs appointment at a cancer clinic has been postponed but luckily just for a few days.

I'm a republican but will probably watch the procession as I do quite enjoy the sense of history, but for the actual funeral yes we'll be going out on a walk. Teenage dd won't be watching any of it - I've brought her up to have a healthy disdain for the royal family.

Thing is that I've been quite interested in some of the constitutional aspects, but I'm done now - Andrew taking part in the walk yesterday and then the zillions of gormless people being interviewed on tv about why they want to come and see has done it for me !