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"The Most Venerable Bogoda SeelawimalaOriginally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
Chief Sangha Nayaka of Great Britain,
Head Monk of the London Buddhist Vihara"
(page 9 in the Order of Service).
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Didn’t they do well?Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
that's right....and what have got the conveyor belt today - a cuddly toy....Charles being into Goons would understand ...
....Mr and Mrs Windsor why are you here today....Well, we've got a little dressing up game followed by an assault course for you.....Comment
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Well, it wasn't too awful, though I didn't like the TV commentator talking over the trumpeters' playing the Royal Salute as the King entered the Abbey, as though it wasn't anything worth paying attention to; but it's all part of the cult of the presenter.Comment
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A highly nuanced view by the Observer's Rachel Cooke:Originally posted by Bryn View Post
"Looking like a couple of elderly polar bears on tour, the ermine-cloaked majesties were the centre of a day that was huge and hideous, exquisite and sacred, all at once."
And yet, she found something to admire in it all. It helps to have a sense of humour
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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What an excellent piece!Originally posted by french frank View PostA highly nuanced view by the Observer's Rachel Cooke:
"Looking like a couple of elderly polar bears on tour, the ermine-cloaked majesties were the centre of a day that was huge and hideous, exquisite and sacred, all at once."
And yet, she found something to admire in it all. It helps to have a sense of humour"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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V carefully worded piece. RC is a fine writer.Comment
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It would seem that KC111 has his own calendar (my bold)
A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said: “While wholly supportive of the Big Help Out initiatives taking place right across Britain on Monday 7 May, [the King and Queen] will not be attending any events in-person.Comment
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Else they might find out the true state of the nation:“While wholly supportive of the Big Help Out initiatives taking place right across Britain on Monday 7 May, [the King and Queen] will not be attending any events in-person.
I found this piece deeply shocking.Comment
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Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
... regarding 'the state of the nation', this piece in The Guardian -
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This and the one posted earlier by kernelbogey are indeed illustrations of worrying trends but I wonder what might happen if at the next GE no party or even coalition of parties can command sufficient support to give it/them a mandate to form a government. Is Parliamentary democracy (with all its flaws) as we know it veering towards a dénouement of its own making and, if so, where might that leave a monarchy which is effectively a figurehead that has no powers to create and enact legislation as has Parliament? Some who oppose the continuation of the UK monarchy seem to see it as an interfering force in a democracy, presumably in the main because it is unelected, but what might happen - and what might be expected of that monarchy - if UK finds itself no longer able to elect a viable government.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... regarding 'the state of the nation', this piece in The Guardian -
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The "red wall" to-ings at the last GE and their likely reversal at the next one (if the results of last week's local government elections are anything by which to go) might well lead to at least some increasingly disaffected voters deciding to abstain rather than once again changing their electoral loyalties - and the lower the turnout, the smaller the chances of formation of a workable elected government. A widely used slogan of anti-monarchy protesters is "not my king"; I am trying to imagine a disaffected Charles III at a state opening of Parliament saying "not my government", thereby reversing many decades of tradition at such events. Who can say? Those two articles certainly do point up a view that UK is falling apart, so it;s anyone's guess, I guess...Comment
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On Saturday we attended a family wedding in deepest Dorset, whose date was set well before that of the Coronation, so we spent the entire weekend with only minimal contact with it. Driving along through Wilts and Dorset we did notice some houses displaying tableaux with self-made mannequins of Charles III which looked more like Penny for the Guy than our new monarch. I will no doubt get a round to listening to the Abbey music but probably won't be getting the CD.
We stayed overnight and had an opportunity on a beautiful sunny Sunday to do a full day's sightseeing before heading for home:
A delightful tiny village church at Chalbury with original box pews and stunning views of the local countryside. Pics here
Wimborne Minster - attractive town and church
Kingston Lacy - NT country house and estate
Badbury Rings - Iron Age hillfortComment
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I saw one such notice in a window in my street this morning. Whose king is he?Originally posted by ahinton View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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