I didn't know that! How stoopid! 

 

It's like BB's 10th anniversary all over again. 

The Queen has been our monarch for 60 years, quite an achievement, one equalled only by Queen Victoria.  The pageant on the Thames and all the celebrations that are to take place over the long Bank Holiday weekend would not quite have been the same in February somehow so they are holding it on the Queen's official birthday, the first Saturday in June, seems sensible to me.

As I understand it HMQ has never been keen on the February date since to her it represents the death of her Father. Otherwise 60 glorious years!

Well that makes sense.  Thanks.

Does anyone know if Tuesday is an official bank holiday? i think it is and daughter says no

Yes, it is.

 

"Bank holiday

The late May bank holiday has been moved to Monday 4 June 2012 and an additional Jubilee bank holiday will take place on Tuesday 5 June 2012. The extra bank holiday and extended bank holiday weekend also applies to Scotland."

 

From - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl...Features/DG_WP200687

Is anyone having a street party or anything?

 

I was given a commemorative plate yesterday and was surprised at how chuffed I was with it  

can't wait to tell her she's wrong when she gets in

It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? 

 

Managed to prove Mr Blizz wrong twice today, already!  

it is with her, she always thinks  she's right she will probably google it before she accepts that i'm right

Aimee, I have a little saying in my house these days with regards to my very knowledgeable teenager. "Ask ***** while he's still a teenager and knows everything"

 

That's interesting - my mate works for the NHS and apparently the Scottish parliament have deemed it an 'optional' holiday - and she's not getting it  (the day off I mean, Blizz) and the traditional end of May holiday - which has been moved to June this year isn't a Scottish holiday either.  Luckily the company i work for takes English holidays.  

My sister works for Tesco and they are classing it as a "special day" so you can have the day off on full pay or you can work it for whatever premiums you're entitled to eg...people who have been there a long time will get paid for the day anyway and double time for what they actually work. No option for a day back if they work though which is what normally happens on their bank holidays. Confused? 

 

We're having a party next Saturday. I've got all my Union Jack paper plates, napkins etc. We've got bunting for the front of the house and all the neighbours have been invited. Most people work mid week so nobody fancied it Mon or Tues.

The jubilee holidays are taking place at the beginning of June as the Queen's official birthday will be on June 4th.

 

I've got the jubilee off but my boss is making me take it unpaid as its at "the employers discretion" rather than a compulsory bank holiday. I'd sooner take it unpaid than work for just normal wages!

The hair salon I frequent is closed on a Monday, and so when there has been a bank holiday the owner closes the salon on the Tuesday so the girls still get a 'bank holiday' 

Maybe she was hoping for good weather, weather would determine what hat she'd wear. 

Incidentally - Philip Schofield said on this morning that we shouldn't pronounce it Joo-bi-lee.................it should be Jooblee. So that's how I'm gonna say it - I may take to correcting people who say it wrong cos I love the sound of Jooblee

I heard that too Soozy, but all it did was make me want one of these.

 

mine is a miss know it all, my dad says she takes after my mum and she'll never say sorry when you've proved her wrong

Except for the NHS in Scotland, wwe're only getting an extra day's Annual Leave, Thus we have to apply for the Tuesday off and if we work it we only get paid for a standard day.

 

So instead of 33 days A/L and 9 PHs, I get 34 days A/L and 8 PHs.

Philip might have it wrong though - check this link out http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=jubilee now who do we believe

 

Cinds, that's what came into my head too as soon as I read Soozy's post!

Fluffs, what's the chances that next time I'm in Tesco a box of those come home with me 

Not having heard Philip himself I'm just guessing, but I think what he might have been trying to get at is that the letter I should not be the sylable that is stressed. Analyzing how I say it, I become aware that I stress the 'lee' sylable most.

I think Philip Schofield is wrong.

My Oxford English dictionary gives the pronounciation as the usual way joo-bi-lee as does this link which you can listen to which has lots of examples none of which match Schofield's

http://www.memidex.com/jubilee#audio

 

95 to 1?

 

 

how motherly.

There must be something in the air today, as Martin Clunes was on Daybreak this morning pronouncing LEMUR in a very curious fashion, and Kate Whatshername declared he must be correct because he had made a documentary.

Shall I recreate it in the forum in a photo story format 

Of course! Isn't it a well known fact that anyone who's made a documentary is correct in everything?

Maybe you could crochet a storyboard!

Oh gawd no, it would be unravelled before the end of the story,

Yes, otherwise it's more Jew Billy, instead of Joobi Lee. 

 

I was reading a thread over on DS earlier about whether you have more memories of the 77 or the 2002 Jubilee.  

 

I have more memories of the 77 Jubilee, street parties, pageants at school, squashed cakes etc etc.  I don't remember anything about the 2002 Jubilee, but in all fairness that was the summer I graduated from Uni, and so was probably buried in books revising and finishing my dissertation.

 

What about you lot, which one do you have more memories from?

I can't remember either of them!

 

Slightly too young to remember the first ....and the second must have passed me by. 

 

I have quite good memories of when the Queen opened the Humber Bridge though!  

I remember going to Durham Cathedral when she came to visit, and because Dad was a policeman who was on guard that afternoon we got to be right at the front and Prince Phil stopped and chatted with us.  He even took the drawing I had made for them, and despite me writing my phone number on it, he never called 

 

Were you trying to hit on Prince Philip? 

I remember getting jubilee coins at school in the 1977 jubilee