Clean For The Queen.

[anneasquith]

Will you be out cleaning this weekend ?

[cupid04]

It doesn't happen very often...but I actually agree with Naomi...;-)

[Hopkirk]

Ah, now I understand what Linda Snell was on about.

[Ken4155]

Once had to paint dead grass green for a visit by Princess Anne!!

[SIRandyraven]

I will fly back to the UK and clean for the Queen. It would be an honor for a humble peasant like me to clean for my betters.
I will volunteer to hand pick the Corgi poo from the lawn at Buckingham palace with my humble peasant hands.

[SIRandyraven]

@Ken4155 - I guess you are ex military ?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah syrup of figs and magnesium doo-dah the stuff that scrubs your liver

[Peter Pedant]

sorry I thought that saied

will you be cleaning out this week end ....

[New Judge]

“Think it's a very good idea to keep Britain tidy,…”

It certainly is, viv. And that should be achieved by rigorous enforcement of the anti-litter laws. And the best place to begin that is around the fast food and drink outlets that generate huge amounts of detritus. The notion that those of us who do not create litter should go round clearing up after those who do is absurd.

[Ken4155]

SIRandyraven @ 1549; yes. I was in the Junior Leaders Regiment RA at the time - '71 or '72 and, 'orrible shower' that we were, we had ploughed a well-trodden short cut from the block to the NAAFI causing the grass to go a yukky yellow/brown. Though HRH was not due to go anywhere near it, 3 of u had to paint it green so that, from a distance, it looked like a well kept lawn.

[Ken4155]

^^
3 of us

[whiskeryron]

On one airfield I served when in the Royal Air Works we had to paint coal stocks jet black for a royal visit.

[viv41]

NJ I once helped clear litter from my local park with a band of volunteers and I thoroughly enjoyed making a difference. These volunteers do it regularly and I applaud them.

[SIRandyraven]

At least you did not have to follow the Royal visitor around with a note book , taking notes of the wise words they utter.
Well not yet anyway.

[naomi24]

This is just one of those things that gets community spirit together in the run up to big events. This year no doubt the Queen's 90th birthday will be celebrated in style, as are all the big events surrounding her, and I'd be willing to bet that even some of the dissenters will watch on television and enjoy it - albeit grudgingly. ;o)

[New Judge]

I most certainly will be joining in and enjoying the Queen's birthday celebrations. But I will not be cleaning up after people who behave worse than pigs.

[jourdain2]

Eh?!

[Bathsheba]

Oh Gaawd, I'm getting a bit tired of all these celebrations,..please don't let there be fireworks,....to me it's like watching money go up in smoke :(

Baths
x x x

[Svejk]

^You must have hated Labours reign of terror. The more ***-up the country got, the more bread and circuses they put on for the peeps. (minus the bread)

[Canary42]

I bet the celebratory events round the country create far more litter than the "volunteers" clean up.

[Bathsheba]

Good point, Canary ;)