Seems it's strictly circuses, to me.

No, not much jubilee fever here. As far as the torch goes, the closest it gets to me will be in a van as they take it to Southampton Airport to fly it to the Channel Islands. They are taking it for a jog round Winchester and Southampton city centres (including a few hundred yards on Sunday morning at 6am before it gets put in that van - why bother? Do they think they'll catch the people going home from Saturday night?), but I can't see the point in going several miles to see it.

So more enthusiasm then there was for last year's royal wedding.

What's noticable though, is the lack of enthusiasm for the England football team, as has been usual in the run up to a major football tournament in recent times.

I wonder if there will be signs at pubs inviting us to watch the Olympics on the big screen?

I imagine that it'll be Standing Room Only in the Hotspur on synchronised swimming, archery and modern pentathlon days.



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There are some jubilee events organised locally over the next 4 days but rain is forecast which will probably make at least some of them a bit of a wash out.

To be honest apart from the endless fawning of some parts of the media over the royal family I find the Jubilee rather less obnoxious than the relentless hype and commercialism surrounding the Olympics. At least you dont have the crown suing you for displaying the union flag on a bit of home made bunting or as icing on cakes during the royal celebrations. Its relatively low cost Ruritanian amateurism also makes it a bargain compared with snouts in trough corporate pig man festival of the modern Olympics

I agree with you though, the real nationalist exuberance will come when Ing-er-land are playing football.

There will be a street fair near my patch of Oxford on Monday; but the big 'do's are I think in other parts of Oxfordshire, notably Henley where the royals themselves will be having a garden party for about 500 people (no, I'm not on the guest list!). Most people I know are either ignoring it - many local workplaces are staying open - or sitting at home watching it on telly.

Like Feds, I don't mind the Jubilee fever nearly as much as the Olympic fever. Partly I'm just being selfish about it, because the latter lasts much longer, I am NOT good at dealing with commuting under chaotic conditions, and therefore will be treating London as a no-go zone during the duration, which is a bit of a pain. But also I think that most people are treating the Jubilee just as a spectacle, rather than as an excuse to go ultra-nationalistic, whereas big sporting events tend to bring out the worst in British 'superpatriots'; not to mention being MUCH more commercialized.

here at home. Might open bottle of Bulmers Red Berry cider. Wouldn't want to overdo it too much.

I'm doing my bit with a bottle of South African Chenin Blanc and the Brittas Empire on youtube. Gawd bless ya, ma'm.

will be well worth a watch. Plus of course that Royal Barge.

With free buses linking them all. No prizes for guessing what I was up to, although I didn't go for any of the jubilee themed beers. Weather for today's paegent on the Thames looks fairly drab.

was to walk between them : not bus it.

I can't believe our fucking weather - its pissing down here. There must be 100's of thousands down at the Thames waiting for the 2 o'clock armada to start. Hopefully it will have stopped raining by then.

I will be celebrating the '50s by going out for Rock & Roll late this afternoon.

Tram pub crawls are commonplace in Sheffield, and the best pub crawl I've ever been on started in Manchester and went via train to Huddersfield!

Bus driver yesterday even greeted me with the words "let's get you pissed then" as I got on!