Those English Summer Traditions
Jun 22nd 2006, 1:31 pm
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Those English Summer Traditions
Just looked at the Sky News website and was reminded that today is Ladies Day at Royal Ascot.
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
Last edited by Englishmum; Jun 22nd 2006 at 1:34 pm.
Jun 22nd 2006, 2:40 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Damn, I really miss those balmy monday evenings at Newmarket, knocking back over-priced champagne, losing money on a donkey and watching all the Tristams and Cordelias spend their daddy's money.
Jun 22nd 2006, 2:50 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by Englishmum
Just looked at the Sky News website and was reminded that today is Ladies Day at Royal Ascot.
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
Jun 22nd 2006, 3:46 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Jemima and Henrietta show that they like a bit of rough stuck to their heads:
Jun 22nd 2006, 3:50 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by Englishmum
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead)
Jun 22nd 2006, 4:17 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by CarlM
I always liked watching Oxford v Cambridge rowing every year..
Aaaahhhh - Putney!!!
Jun 22nd 2006, 7:26 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by Englishmum
Just looked at the Sky News website and was reminded that today is Ladies Day at Royal Ascot.
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
It was always amusing to see the outlandish hats and dresses that some women were wearing. As far as I know there really isn't anything similar elsewhere in the world apart from at the Melbourne Cup race in Oz.
Other traditions from home include the Henley Regatta.....we were invited once on a corporate 'jolly' (at which I got v. drunk drinking champagne all day...well it was our wedding anniversary to boot!) and you can't wear a dress with a hemline above the knee. I didn't have a clue about the rowing races - lots of teams from the Ivy League colleges were there - but it was a lot of fun.
Of course it will be Wimbledon soon and the BBC and newspapers always show people queuing up to get in, eating (overpriced) strawberries and cream.....and tarps being pulled across the grass because it is raining LOL!
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Here's the hats.....
http://www.sky.com/skynews/picture_g...225449,00.html
PS: I bet Elvira misses the opera at Glyndebourne! (why isn't there a wine/champagne icon....beer just won't do!)
My dad just told me that my sister went to that today, I'd love to see a photo of her in her hat!
Jun 22nd 2006, 7:28 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
[QUOTE=Englishmum]I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Where in Wales are you headed?
Where in Wales are you headed?
Jun 22nd 2006, 7:37 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by peterbainham
Jemima and Henrietta show that they like a bit of rough stuck to their heads:
Jun 22nd 2006, 9:27 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
[QUOTE=blaze]
They live in Saundersfoot and getting married at the local C of E church (which is very old and pretty) but the wedding reception will be at an hotel on the cliff at Tenby....will probably stay there myself.
My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Originally Posted by Englishmum
I'm not going 'home' this Summer (have to go to Wales in October for a cousins wedding instead) and I think I will miss those English eccentricities.....
Where in Wales are you headed?
Where in Wales are you headed?
My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Jun 22nd 2006, 9:43 pm
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by Englishmum
My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Jun 23rd 2006, 12:52 am
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
[QUOTE=Englishmum]
They live in Saundersfoot and getting married at the local C of E church (which is very old and pretty) but the wedding reception will be at an hotel on the cliff at Tenby....will probably stay there myself.
My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Well at least you're going to a nice area of Wales, Tenby and Saundersfoot are lovely.
Originally Posted by blaze
They live in Saundersfoot and getting married at the local C of E church (which is very old and pretty) but the wedding reception will be at an hotel on the cliff at Tenby....will probably stay there myself.
My husband's brother lives in Aberystwyth in a huge house on the cliff but he and his wife are nutters - green witches - so we avoid them LOL! In fact we've never been to their house after I got food poisoning at their other house in Lampeter....
Well at least you're going to a nice area of Wales, Tenby and Saundersfoot are lovely.
Jun 23rd 2006, 1:02 am
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Just when you thought it was safe to have a quiet pint down the pub on a Summers Evening..... Hey Nonny F**king No.
Jun 23rd 2006, 1:07 am
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Or even............
Jun 23rd 2006, 1:12 am
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Re: Those English Summer Traditions
Originally Posted by peacelover
Or even............
Or is that British? Do they have Morris Dancers in Scotland and Wales?