Is the Royal Wedding a day to remember ?

[xdirtydancerx]

I wasn't born when Charles and Diana got married.

Can remember 9/11 though. I'd been at college all day and just met a lovely girl who had been on holiday in New York. She'd literally landed and come straight through to meet the group before going home! I didn't know anything of the actual incident until I got home at 4pm though

[PixiePetal]

Hillsborough - I was a nanny, it was the middle childs birthday party and being a Liverpool supporter I was desperate to find out the score. When everyone had left the party I put on TV to find match abandoned and everything in chaos. I was stunned

[Gizmo]

Queens Silver Jubilee - It was the week before we moved up to Scotland and there was a big street party and I remember thinking it was for us leaving

C&D wedding - I loved the full thing sat glued to it and made scrapbooks out of the cuttings in the paper, and my mum recently found them in the loft

Dianas death - Walked round for the papers everywhere was so quiet, we sat watching it the full day

9/11 - Was working in the factory and someone had a radio and had heard it on the news the full factory stopped

[rickysmiths]

2 years old when Charles and Diana married, but I remember watching Andrew and Fergie marrying at school.....

When Diana died I was going to a rugby tournament with my boyfriend - got up early, turned the news on whilst I was having breakfast. It was all anyone talked about all day. Like when Michael Jackson died, such a shock.

9/11 was not nice. My sister was working in New York at the time, her hotel was right next to the twin towers. We were on honeymoon in Ibiza and the hotel staff made no attempt to help us find out any information. It took all day to get through to my Mum on the phone who had found out by that stage that my sister was OK> She lost everything, including glasses and passport, and came back to England very soon after.

Then she moved to London and her route to work was one of the routes that was bombed in the 7/7 attacks. That was awful too because all the phone lines were down, there was no way to find out if she was ok But she was. And she was in Mombasa when they had the tsunami, her inlaws house is right on the beach, they have beach instead of a back garden. Oh she's caused us a few grey hairs

Oh I didn't realise it affected East African Coast. I have many happy memories of beach holidays in Mombasa in the 60s when we lived in Niarobi. Going up the coast and going on the 'Singing Ferry', I believe there is a bridge there now! Gedi the Deserted Town happy days.

[venus89]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JOsg1LFBw

I don't think it was bad for a tsunami.....

Anyway, she now lives in Kenya (not far from Nairobi, coincidentally, she's in Nanyuki) so it obviously didn't bother her too much. And we're all a bit safer for her being out of the country!

[Bear23]

Hillsborough = my brother was there, can remember every second waiting by the phone! Really affected him still does

Diana = i was living with a pratt, remember watching it in bed when i woke up

9/11 = I was running pubs, came on the big screen in the bar, never known the pub so quiet, awful