Have dayouts turned into wedding venues in ‘post covid 19’ Britain?
The beautiful bride getting married at a public space day out.
The beautiful bride walking past people on their day out in casual pre covid 19 jeggings
Makes you feel like a gatecrasher. Like you are incorrectly dressed at a wedding, mind you suppose they might feel stupid also, with tourists walking through their special day.
Consider the suzy wong look for summer days out
So if you end up at a wedding on your day out, (which happens all the time now in Britain, even zoos apparently, mind you there shouldn’t be zoos anyway), you will look like a guest, rather than feeling uncomfortable.
15-minute city, block staycation post COVID adverts
Is this sort of imagery, advertising tourist days out, there to put us off having a day out? works really well as you would want to avoid this shy person faking brashness in a strangely contorted position – guess whoever it is isn’t there all the time?
If they started to bother you and they called you shy, you could tell them to get out of your way.
What does shy mean?
- 1. nervous or timid in the company of other people.”I was pretty shy at school”
- bashful
- diffident
- timid
- sheepish
- reserved
- introverted
- retiring
- self-effacing
- shrinking
- withdrawn
- fearful
- apprehensive
- nervous
- hesitant
- reluctant
- doubting
- insecure
- wary
- suspicious
- chary
- unconfident
- inhibited
- constrained
- repressed
- self-conscious
- embarrassed
- coy
- demure
- abashed
- modest
- humble
- meek
- Opposite
- bold
- brash
- confident
Must say a lot of mothers send their shy children to dancing class to bring them out of it.
It probably makes it worse for them, as they are still shy but have to be shy on stage or the edge of a cliff instead.
Maybe children should just be able to be shy in peace without pushy parents.
Must wonder if strange contorted people proving they aren’t shy in a bold and brash manner doesn’t bring out shyness in people who aren’t shy naturally.
What is wrong with being shy anyway?
modesty and humbleness are qualities
whereas brashness isn’t
What is a brash person like?
adjective.
If you describe someone or their behavior as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive. [disapproval] On stage she seems hard, brash, and uncompromising.
Synonyms: bold, forward, rude, arrogant.
I was the other way, I was a boisterous child and used to beat sexist pig little boys up. Was really violent, luckily school made me more ladylike. Bit embarrassed of my behavioral problems as a junior when I look back.
boisterous
Another problem with British days out is the pricing
Remember when you could go for a day out and the entry fee was roughly 50p and the brochure was either 25p for a written one or £4.99 for a glossy one.
If you have kept them for repeat visits, it may be too expensive to get in now or we are being told to stay in our own 15-minute towns or whatever? and not go on days out or holidays, not sure how far 15 minutes is? The problem there for us is our high street has virtually shut down and the local parks have bitter people breaking the dog leash law with their uncared-for pets. What we would have gone to has been trashed and made into a cheap quality wedding venue. In fact, that is more than 15 minutes away anyway.
Wonder if there is a website on cheap days out in Britain to interesting places, where you can just leave a donation or it is 99p parking and so forth. The stately home has cheap parking but is ruined.
Remembered a book someone recommended to me once, going to try and get it.
Will blog ideas if anything comes from it and if I actually receive it.
If you are selling expensive days out and read this, I’m not changing anything as some people will still pay extortionate prices especially if they are upper class and rich, mind you they are educated and more fussy than me to be honest, and most of their money is tied up in mortgages and business and so forth.
In fact, I wouldn’t want to go where all the upper class rich people were anyway, as I said before we don’t get on with them or they us.
If I have any success will add cheap days out, and unspoiled tourist destinations to my social media; unspoiled by weddings, extortionate entrance fees, artisan art shops, and unregulated-sized dress shops that have taken over quaint village design, dress, and gift shops, that used to sell things you wanted to purchase at much more affordable prices than artisan products that are around the £500 price point, but made out of old rubbish. They can’t make them fast enough according to my old school friend. Must be selling to upper-class people?
Did business studies at Design College, so know they are really overpriced and not worth what artisans are asking for them. Old rubbish might and probably won’t last as long as quality materials. Make sure you ask what materials an artist has used before you purchase their work. My cousin just uploaded what looks like logs for the fire glued into a rough Rudolph the red nose reindeer shape? She is playing at being an artist even though she is a trained teacher, but not a musical teacher, which may be why she lost her job.
Travel diary journal
These blog ideas will be quite useful, found this strange little cafe once in the middle of nowhere with antiques in the toilet.
The coffee was gorgeous
and the view out of this world. We never managed to find it again. It has probably closed down now anyway due to unrealistic covid 19 restrictions.
Hopefully will find some stately homes that aren’t wedding venues or extortionately priced to get in.
Would like to check out beaches/countryside I have never been to.
(You could practice photography and take up watercolour painting, then blog them in the travel journal. Started to get into this hobby pre-covid. I’m not very good, but really enjoyed it).
Would also like to find fellow bloggers who like similar days out, and then we could try their recommendations.
This might class us as boring, but would rather put up with these insinuations and enjoy being me than be like the shy people faking brashness by ballroom dancing on top of a mountain?
or the ones proving they aren’t bashful by ballet dancing on a bridge
The beauty of a campervan is you can drive on to the next town or country village if someone is ballroom dancing and insinuating you are a hater or shy, (without bothering to find out who you are even), at the destination you had planned.
You are not alone if post covid anti-social behaviours do your head in
We met a local bloke once who knew where to park to get into a local tourist day out for free. When we looked where he had recommended, the parking space was heaving. He wasn’t stupid really as the parking is about £10.00. It is because rich people are paying stupid prices to see modern art. I have given up on art due to artisan, if I’m honest I don’t really get modern art, got fed up with laughing at it like the other locals, so stopped going there. A scrap iron merchant once gathered up one of the sculptures mistaking it for rubbish and sold it for scrap. Have to be honest and say I could see where he was coming from. It makes you feel stupid in the end. Used to wonder if it was done by rich children who weren’t academic, so got sent to art college, where they weren’t very good at art either. Then Daddy, (that is what English rich people call their father, pop, or dad), bought them an art studio and gave backhanders to art galleries and parks and so forth. A lot of the sculptures are just made from moulds of real people and not actually sculpted by hand. Think the angel of the North might be a blown up mould.
The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998
In the end, I realized if I just stayed away from it, I wouldn’t end up looking unknowledgeable or wondering if I was right. Miss the country park both walking there and having lunch there. Grew up walking around the grounds of the old country estate so more childhood memories are blocked by the new world order of post-COVID-19.
Think the bloke had a point, it shouldn’t cost as much if you are a local or just going for a walk. When I went for lunch there with my mum once a week, they must have made a bit out of us. Don’t go there at all now. My cousin does, but she is in debt.
Apparently, the park isn’t breaking even, the overpriced car park is keeping it afloat. Would make more sense to charge cheaper parking and make money from local people like me and my mum and the people parking down the road, going weekly and buying lunch and coffee, instead they took their own flask and just stuck to the public space part of the countryside. We obviously aren’t posh enough for them, though it has kept the riff-raff out because we don’t go there anymore. Tarquin and Jacinda obviously don’t go there enough or spend as much. Not sure it needs sculptures there really. The countryside is what draws people in. The old stately home was going to be made into a spa hotel, but that never happened.
Please consider going back to pre-covid 19 aesthetic design if you are a designer or craft artist
Aesthetic art and design aren’t much different from artisan; talented artisan artists could easily convert back to aesthetics. It is more commercial and sells easier because it is easier for the masses to understand. I was taught how to sell my design. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough support to set up my own business, so sold it alongside paid jobs. Then I finally realized I preferred to keep what I made.
Used to buy handmade crafts before the artisan movement, but could never afford a lot. Now I have money would buy truckloads, but don’t like the artisan movement. Apparently, my star sign likes aesthetics, so that explains why I prefer design to artisan.
Blog ideas
A travel journal
Out of sunday day out so far, (was raining today and we have flue, so have stayed in) have decided to venture outside our 15-minute city covid-restricted area.
here are some research ideas to inspire travel blogging for real people like us:
- If your local stately home garden/magical secret garden has been changed into a bland money-making wedding venue too, consider recreating it in your own garden. If you look you can find new garden ornaments that can pass for antiques, or you can actually purchase real garden antiques, will have to source where to purchase them. This could be part of the travel journal. Days out to garden centers, architectural salvage yards, and so forth.
- Find public spaces that enforce the keep your dog on a leash rule if you are a responsible dog owner or not too keen on wild dogs or seeing pets mistreated.
- Discover parts of Britain that have kept their history. Maybe all of British history has gone due to covid 19?
- plan your days out in advance so you avoid weddings or being disappointed by post-COVID-19 changes. Maybe the venues could consider this and inform people when weddings are on. Would love to discover touristy days out in Britain that don’t host weddings or charge extortionate entrance fees, so you can afford to treat yourself to a gift, pre-COVID size dress, or aesthetic design piece. We could go there instead and have stress-free days out again. Might try and source these during winter, would love to tour and blog them in our camper van next summer.
The argument for stately home wedding venues
If you like the idea of the wedding venues at stately homes and castles, fair enough, I have to be honest and say they have got in the way of our days out and where we used to go for Sunday lunch and so forth, also a lot of other people have moaned about it. It is especially annoying if you have driven a long way for your day out, just to be turned away as there is a wedding on, they won’t even let you have a drink on a hot day.
What do you do for your days out?
Surely this upsets you too. A wedding is only one day, days out are every weekend.
I’m not against people getting married, just think it could be organised better and priced more fairly by using more traditional venues that also give the wedding party more privacy and leaves the couple with money left over to purchase their first home.
If you have been to art college, most photographers want to be famous, like in Stepford wives, they don’t actually want to be wedding photographers and sometimes aren’t actually very good but charge extortionate fees.
In the old days I think people just went straight into wedding photography as a trade that made an honest profit. I think their photographs were better as they weren’t failed wannabes. Been to so many weddings where people were upset with the dress and photographs.
Was going to research all this as the whole wedding industry seems to of become a sort of wedding conveyor belt with no feelings towards the people getting married. I think that is wrong.
It could be a lot more affordable and run by people who care.
Conclusion
Would love to hear from other people who are discovering similar destruction on their days out after the pandemic of covid 19. Also, people who struggle to go for days out in Britain or anywhere else in the world, due to extortionate entry fees and places being turned into wedding venues. If you know how to find reasonably priced days out or days out that don’t do weddings would be really grateful to hear from you.
Just did a search for days out that are affordable and aren’t wedding venues and the search led to affordable wedding venues?
When we had a global pandemic, we were told to stay safe inside. Fair enough, makes sense. But now we are allowed out again, not sure why everything has changed so much. You might expect that the shops would need a tidy and some new stock, people getting their jobs back and so forth, but it is like covid 19 wasn’t just a pandemic it was also a high street pandemic? this doesn’t make sense.
Just discovered last night on Instagram that some front line workers of the covid 19 pandemic have been affected by covid 19. My sister has been affected by covid; she is wearing awful clothes that make her look like a ‘dog’, but she isn’t a dog. She is working with people who don’t look well and are creating bits of rubbish quality art work with children, they aren’t dressed properly and look like they have a mental illness.
Really worried what is going on?
Just sort of hope for people affected by covid19 that the high street comes back, they get themselves some new clothes and get back to their senses.
Would love to hear from other people who are as confused as me and a bit frightened to what has happened to the world.
If the sane people who have survived the pandemic pull together we may be able to change this mess.
Realised film blogging might come in useful for this. If you see something that inspires you from my blogs please feel free to use the ideas, as long as you are inspired and don’t copy exactly, it doesn’t break old copywriter rules that may still exist from the original designers. Just discovered interior design in films, so you may prefer or like that as well. If I don’t choose what you like as fashion is a personal choice, like in x y and zee, maybe you may feel inspired to set up your own film blog ; fashion, interior design, cars, travel and so forth.
Who knows, maybe a fashion designer or up and coming one may be inspired by what we do and some of it could even turn up in the shops.
Just remember to sell the film/tv or film/tv products with each film and then it is legal.
We might even make money I suppose.
If the film fashion, interior design products sell that would make us money too.
Quite support that to be honest.
The other thing I don’t understand at the moment is when you order something why doesn’t it arrive? are they just photographs of products that don’t exist? if so why advertise them at all?
In the meantime let’s hope there is something still out there that hasn’t been destroyed by the global pandemic of covid 19 or the 15-minute city rule.
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