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!

Luckily hotels, pubs and restaurants will be open. Some of us don't want to participate in performative grieving.

I'll be spending the morning at our local oncology unit. My appt hasn't been cancelled. Thanks you, brilliant NHS 😊

Sigh. Anyone else having flashbacks to lockdown when self-appointed police of our lives took to these threads to tell us off for daring to venture outside the house with our children? Here they are again.
People are free to do whatever they wish on Monday, watch it in real time or not, it’ll be available on demand until kingdom come anyway 🤷‍♀️

Of course they ‘don’t give a stuff’ - they’re growing up with the same disrespectful short sighted attitude as the parent.

"All their friends will be watching it" good grief have you actually met normal modern children who don't live in royalist areas. We don't hang bunting here, we don't wave flags.

If they ever want to watch it it will be recorded and replayed for decades. It's not going anywhere.

Christ I remember everyone losing their collective minds over Diana in the 90s. It was so dull to be a kid and watching adults weeping and wailing over a celeb.

@NovaDeltas I find it very odd that you are actively raising your children to hate the country they live in. How will you feel if they decide they actually love the UK and want to stay?

Is it really so hard to believe that not everyone thinks the Royal Family are lovely and special and magic because they are blessed by the fairies?

@NovaDeltas please don't speak on behalf of all of us.

Watching live history on the telly is ‘performative grieving’? Oh give over 🙄

I am completely neutral about the Queen. I've never met her, I don't know her. I feel the same way about her as I do any other elderly person I don't know that has died. Neutral.

I wouldn't sit and gawp at a stranger's funeral. Honestly, that doesn't scream respect to me. So why would I do it for hers? It's not entertainment, and it shouldn't be treated as such. I have met more than one person that 'loves a funeral', and they go to every one that they have even the loosest connection to. One of them lives to comment the food afterwards than anything else, and the other loves to have a gossip about the amount of money they did or didn't spend on the funeral. Anything less than a hardwood coffin is a sign of being cheap, apparently.

I'm sure they'll both be watching. I'm not sure that you can describe either as respectful.

Weird take. Why does not having an interest in something mean I think I'm above it? I don't think the lesser of anyone who does want to watch it live, I'd just personally prefer to use the unexpected day off to go out and as schools are closed I have children to be responsible for as well.

Better than growing up surrounded by cap-doffing, forelock-tugging sycophants who still - in 2022 - believe that power can be legitimately transferred via the bloodstream.

Pathetic, obsequious nonsense. Embarrassing.

A bit weirded out, to be honest. All my family have emigrated, we're just selling the house and trying to be out by 2023. The culture is beyond saving.

Eh?! I'm off to the gym. Didn't know the funeral watching was mandatory. Assuming you're joking.

Is your gym definitely open? We were thinking about going swimming but assuming it will be closed and they are crap at updating info on their website.

@LetMeSpeak is that you Chaz? 😂

Just in case LetMeSpeak isn't joking. There is no mandate to mourn as far as I am aware. I have no respect for the monarchy as an institution, never met the woman, can't bring myself to care that she's died. She never touched my life in any way whatsoever.

Wild horses wouldn't drag me to London and I don't own a television. Am I supposed to weep and wail at the lounge wall?

Nah, we're off to climb a large hill, then I'm going paddle boarding. Back in time to see clients, none of whom care enough about the funeral or EW to want to cancel.

I'm very inclined to get a bright yellow t-shirt printed with I'm Not Mourning in large brightly coloured letters.

The level of performative mawkishness in the country is astonishing.

My gym is closed for the while day so I'd check yours before you go.

A load of outdated nonsense that is costing us a packet, you mean.

That’s not respect, it’s deference. Just because someone is luckily enough to have a certain person as a parent does not mean they should be afford additional respect. What about those people who have had loved one’s funeral, medical treatment and weddings cancelled? I feel like they are being disrespected. You do what you think is right for you and let others choose what to do because enforced behaviour is conformity not respect.

I don't see what is respectful about stopping people doing what they want to do.
I have no interest in the royal famuly but understand that HM liked parks and the proms, so closing these doesn't seem respectful as, if she was alive, she'd go/still be patron.
As for cancelling surgery and cancelling other funerals, that is extremely disrespectful and morally repugnant. People could die.

If people want to mourn, that's fine. But not everyone feels the same. Parks could (and hopefully will) remain open. Its not very democratic being forced to do things differently because of competitive grieving protocols.

I find it hard to understand that Center Parcs is closing for the day and people already there have to move out for the day. Or was it a windup news item I just read online?

I'm thinking the beach or poss pub (hoping the local is open). No way am I watching the funeral, I think a lot of what's going on at the moment is despicable (Prince Andrew, right to protest & inheritance tax-related, not the funeral).