Anyone else watching??
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Topic: Anyone else watching??
Posted By: Paws
Subject: Anyone else watching??
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:18am
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Sir Ed's funeral?
We've got it on the TV with the radio coverage going...looks like it will be a sad one :o( ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: gemsmum
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:19am
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Yup, it's on as background while the girls (I've got O with me today) are making a fort or something in the middle of the lounge. Are you at home or work today?
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:22am
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I'm at work...lucky I'm not on the phones today!! I can watch and listen.
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:39am
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yeah, we are watching. keep thinking I might have to turn it off cos I keep crying!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:44am
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I'd cry if I thought I could get away with it!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 11:45am
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Yep we are watching it, and recording it on My Sky.
Nyah is transfixed on it. She doesn't understand that it's someone's grandad that has died, when her grandad's are all alive  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 12:52pm
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Not me, I'm at work ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:06pm
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It is wonderful. -------------  
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:11pm
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It is....I would so cry if I wasn't at work! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: gemsmum
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:34pm
| It's been good.....if a funeral can be. I've had some interesting discussions with two 6 year olds about death and families etc. Glad I'm off work this week so am able to watch. |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:37pm
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The piping out and the haka was beautiful!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:40pm
Loved that too Paws  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 1:42pm
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aww I've got some tear action going on as well. Jake asked what it was and I said its sayig goodbye to Sir Ed, and he kept going 'bye Sir Ed, Bye... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:02pm
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Just went down and saw the processional first hand. People clapped him down Khyber pass, like a mexican wave - it made my hair lift a little off my head. There look to be thousands of people out there. ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:14pm
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They showed the procession through town on tv, it was amazing, so many people. Even after the huge downpour!
Man, i shed plenty of tears through the whole thing, but that haka after the piper did me in completely. -------------
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 2:45pm
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I'm go gutted I missed most of it ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 4:32pm
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I recorded the rest of it on My Sky as we had to go out. So Conor is fast forwarding it for me so I can see the Haka etc... I'm amazed at the amount of people who braved the elements to farewell him, that's just awesome.
RIP. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:09pm
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I managed to see the highlights on TV just before the news it was so nice the haka and the piper. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:10pm
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One thing I did like was that Sky News Australia and the BBC had the coverage on their news channels, so my parents were able to watch it on Sky News (it was the TVNZ coverage). ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:11pm
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I'm glad I didn't watch it coz just watching the highlights this evening, and listening to the Gov Gen read For Everything there is a Season had me in tears, I would have been sobbing like a baby if I'd watched the whole thing.
I must say tho it was a very fitting tribute, and shame on Nepal for their appalling lack of respect and action. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 22 January 2008 at 9:22pm
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I had it on the radio at work and me and one of my mums I was seeing sat and listened to it in the lounge at work as my appt didnt show up then it was my lunchbreak. We must have looked a sight tears and all ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 23 January 2008 at 2:13am
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I wished I could have watched it but oh well.... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> http://lilypie.com">
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