What is open on Monday 19th Sept?

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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!

Long walk with the children, a good film, bit of cooking - that kind of day.

I asked in Waitrose earlier if they would be closed all day or whether they would be opening later. (just wanting to plan my shopping).

Closed all day because they stock the Duchy range of food apparently, as a mark of respect.

So closing in order to make less money for Charles? Or is it William now? I haven't been keeping up.

What do you mean by “I was involved in implementing London Bridge”? @Whatafustercluck

I will not be watching. I may go out into the streets and shout "up the revolution" at some point!

I am not a monarchist and lost any last remaining traces of respect for the queen as a person when she protected her sex offender son.

I'm bloody annoyed the schools are closing - kids have missed enough school these last few years.

I'm over from Gransnet. Bored fuckless with wall to wall dead queen. Isn't there anything else worth reporting on the news? All these people lapping up subservience. I'm going to be 70 next year, so I was around for her coronation ( as a baby) and I don't think my parents were that interested in her. I'm beyond angry that hospital appointments are cancelled, shops closed, food banks even. For what?? Respect for a rich corpse? Give me a break.!

Well said, vintagevixen!

Her response was told that people were sad because the Queen had died was "well I'm not sad. It's not as sad as Daisy [her cat] dying".

Love this. She’s right. To her, losing her cat that she saw every day and loved will have been much worse.

I don’t feel sad about the Queen dying. It’s sad for her family but she had a very long life. I have cried for people I don’t know and felt very sad, but they’ve been children/much younger adults that have died because of some sort of tragedy. People trying to enforce grief or certain behaviours on others about the Queens death is really weird.

MissingNashville: I don't feel sad either, just irritated. My father died in June ( died, not passed) and I'm grieving for him because he's my family. I don't know this wealthy person calling herself queen and won't be told to 'show respect' because I despise the monarchy. My grandchildren don't give a stuff either but they'll enjoy a day off school.

I don't feel sad about the Queen dying. I do not even feel sorry for those who loved her. She was 96 and will have had excellent care until the end. She had at least two of her children visiting every day in her last week. It is a good death.

Respect! Republican pensioners are my favourite kind.

Gransnet are mostly pro monarchy. Generalising a bit, I know, but I've read some really irritating crap on some of the threads ( including something about Charles'neck hair, FFS ). It's beyond me what the fuss is all about with this outdated institution and I'm sick of words like 'duty' , 'service' and 'respect' bandied about as if it was a crime to go against the mainstream. It's getting more like a police state daily.

Sounds annoying. I haven't seen anything about Charlie's neck hair on the main MN board, which is a sentence I never thought I'd write, but there've been plenty of demands for respect on here from various self-appointed moral guardians too.

Let them demand. Some of us won't be bullied. This adulation is distracting from real issues. What a gift for the Tories.

@NovaDeltas I’m under 40 I’ll be watching.

Sorry I didn't mean you, I responding to the original post 🤣

Again, sorry I didn't mean you, I was responding to the original post!

The economic cost of closing the country down for a day must be colossal. I know several small business owners (nursery, dog care and cafe) who feel forced into closing and will lose thousands. I find that really distasteful, particularly given the current economic situation.

I can't comprehend the idea of grieving for someone you don't know though I have nothing in particular against the queen. I can understand people being a bit sad or feeling that it is the end of an era (or watching the funeral as a form of entertainment) but "grief"? I don't really see it as all that "historic" either. It was always inevitable that the queen would die at some point. She will be replaced by someone who will fulfil the same role, which is essentially as a figurehead who carries out some ceremonial duties with no significant political power. I don't think it has the historical significance of the war in Ukraine or covid pandemic for example.

And I don't understand why people should have some sort of right to watch the funeral either. People don't even have the right to take time off for the deaths of close friends in most cases. I've gone to work on the day an aunt died and when a close friend died because I had to.

Toddler and baby will be going to the park again (unless the council have taped off the swings again as a symbol of "respect"). I might watch a few minutes of the funeral later on iplayer but am so annoyed by the whole thing that I'm not sure I want any part of it.

My dentist is still open, so I'll be there as planned.

Hey OP The visitor attraction where l work is open - l've pm'ed you.

Again, sorry I didn't mean you, I was responding to the original post!

That really didn't come across, given that it was page 19 of the thread and you didn't address op specifically. But just to balance this up:

Op, go out and have a lovely day with your children.

The world is a really strange place. As a teenager, I wasn't allowed to go to my grandmother's funeral as it wasn't seen as appropriate. But apparently now it's ok for people to sit their children down and to make them watch the funeral of someone else's grandmother. I'm sure plenty of people will have things to say about what people wear and how they behave. And somehow some people think the disrespectful thing is to not gawp at the grieving family.

I reckon you’ll be busy!!

My local Dominos is opening.

Hatred for the queen? That's an unfounded and completely ridiculous comment.

The OP doesn't say that anywhere. She's asking what's open, so that if something is she can take the kids and if not plan something else.

Where has she said she expects places to be open? I didn't realise just how much some posters attribute words and sentiments to other posters that they've not said or expressed until it happened to me.

This is another example.

Our local climbing centre is open they've just confirmed. No music and no cooked food in the cafe but all courses etc running as normal (I doubt any are scheduled during the funeral).