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[turps]

Poor Bodhi ended up at children's A&E two days ago, she had a non-blanching rash and was being sick so they took her in just to be safe. Turns out she has gastroenteritis and a viral rash, poor little thing. She's on the mend now, though.

I have to admit to keeping looking at #TheQueue on twitter, so many serious tweets, informative tweets and ones that made me laugh. This tweet is pretty much where I'm at, where I know the whole thing is ridiculous, but I can't help watching and boggling that some people are now one hour into waiting in the queue to join The Queue-- and due to the feed I've just spent ten minutes watching David Beckham on the Livestream.

The temperature dropped a lot overnight so our walk today included a pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks. As always nice enough but not my favourite flavour, but something I always feel I need to buy at least once in autumn. It didn't help that the place we went to was obviously understaffed and every table was full of dirty cups.

We had originally planned to go to the cinema today as new films were due to start, but all new stuff has been pushed back until Tuesday. Films are still playing, just the ones we want to see are too late and the ones in the afternoon we've seen or have no desire to see.

Tomatoes and courgettes from my garden, plus mushrooms and shallots roasted for part of tea tonight. Just the thing for a slightly chilly day I feel.

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[spikedluv]

Poor Bodhi! That's awful for anyone, but a small child who has no idea what's going on . . . I hope she feels better soon.

Too bad you couldn't go to the movies today.

[dine]

I boggled when I heard on the radio during my evening commute that The Queue was something like 22-24 hours wait. that's just obscene. they included a brief bit of interview with David Beckham about growing up in a Royalist family, so he had to come. he apparently arrived around 2:00 am, thinking it would help cut down his wait - but it didn't!

[frausorge]

Oh no, I hope Bodhi will make a quick and thorough recovery!

Your garden harvest sounds excellent, and I hope you have a delicious tea.

[turps]

Bodhi has bounced back nicely now. Just she gave Kayleigh and Lucy a bit of a shock.

It was a delicious tea, made even more so with the satisfaction of growing part of it.

[turps]

I always watch the news in the morning when I wake, and this morning they were interviewing people who had been queuing overnight. Many were wrapped in the blue blankets that had been given out, were exhausted with hours to go still, and yet seemed very happy to be there. It's not something I would do, but I'm still enjoying the twitter feed.

I'm also enjoying the stories about David Beckham, especially that he bought doughnuts for many people. The Queue has to be bad enough without having your photo taken all the time, but he seemed to just get on with it. So, kudos to him for that.

[turps]

Thankfully, Bodhi seems to be much better. But gave her mams a fright, especially having the full body rash.

I knew we wouldn't be able to go to the cinema on Monday, because it's closed, everything is closed, supermarkets, cafes the lot. But I didn't expect them to delay the new films too. I really don't get the reasoning.

[jacieleigh]

Poor Bodhi! I see you've mentioned she's improving, so that's good to hear.

I can see that standing in the Queue is a once in a lifetime thing, really. I mean, the Queen has been Queen for the entirety of so many peoples' lives I can see that they'd want to pay their respects and this will be their only option to do so as she lies in state. However...I can't see waiting in queue for 22-24+ hours just to be cattle herded past a casket. I gather each person only gets a few seconds to view the casket before being herded on.

I have great respect for the Queen (and share her love of horses), but I'm with you on a hard pass to spending hours waiting in the queue for a glance and maybe a photo op, if that's someone's thing.

I do love the story going around about the Queen meeting an American couple on holiday while taking a hike, and they didn't recognize her. They asked her if she'd ever met the Queen. She did say no, then took a photo with them. I do hope they showed the photo to other people and that someone did tell them THEY met the Queen. That's a lovely story! It would be awesome if the couple came forward and shared that photo. I wonder if they never did know, but maybe with that story going around, people are checking their old vacation photos!

[turlough]

Poor Bodhi! I'm glad she's doing better now but it must have been such a scare for Kayleigh & Lucy!

Pumkin spice sounds such a weird thing to add to coffee, but I suppose it IS suitably autumnal :-)

Roasted mushrooms and shallots do indeed sound PERFECT for a chilly autumn day!

[dreamersdare]

I kinda lost it when I found the livestream Youtube channel that told you the by-the-minute status of The Queue.

I hope Bodhi's okay now?

[turps]

Yeah, they really did have a scare, especially with the rash. But Bodhi is fine now.

I'd love to know who first thought of pumpkin spice. It seems to be everywhere now but also not something I'd think, pumpkin will taste great in a coffee.

The roasted mushrooms and shallots were delicious. So much so I'm having it again today.

[turps]

I kinda lost it when I found the livestream Youtube channel that told you the by-the-minute status of The Queue.

The Queue has kept me entertained for days now. It seemed to take on a life of its own, and I suspect I'll remember the footage of all those people queueing for a long time.

Thankfully Bodhi is fine now. Just gave her mams a huge scare.

[turps]

Bodhi is improving, which is great.

I have great respect for the Queen (and share her love of horses), but I'm with you on a hard pass to spending hours waiting in the queue for a glance and maybe a photo op, if that's someone's thing.

Yep, I'm there with you. I also respect her, as a person and how she tirelessly did her duty for so long, but while I wouldn't mock the people who did queue, no way would I have done the same. You couldn't even have a photo op as it was strictly no cameras/phones plus very strict flight-like security that meant you couldn't take in liquids or food after a certain point. Which is understandable from a security point, but did mean a lot of people had to throw stuff away, for example, one woman had to get rid of a bottle of very expensive perfume.

It was literally all those hours waiting in a never stopping queue, so no real time to sleep or rest well, walk into the hall, stop for a second in front of the coffin, pay your respects and move on. So yeah, not for me.

That is an excellent story and one that shows her sense of humour nicely. I also wonder if they ever realised they had met the Queen.

[jacieleigh]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/queens-prank-american-tourists-who-27947191

That's the story. So she did say, although she'd never met the Queen that the gentleman accompanying her (her security) ran into the Queen quite often! LOL