What were you doing when you heard Princess Diana was dead

[john75]

For me I was in bed about to go to Bicester for a Sales Training course.

[Lois]

I was staying at my gran's house in Peterborough.

[Phil Dicky]

Was still a PC in West Yorkshire Police and was working nights, watch it all unfold really shocking.

[staceyb]

In bed my mam thought it was important enough to wake me up and inform me for some bizarre reason.

[Mikey G]

Watching the news?

[littlegreenfairy]

Sitting by my bed wandering why I couldn't get any kids tv...

[Plotloss]

I was working on something that had to be done before the Monday.

Remember it breaking in the middle of the night.

And then the shite radio the next day.

And then getting stuck in the sodding cavalcade because I was on the piss in Kensington the night before the funeral and I lived just down the road from the burial site and had to follow the sodding thing all the way home.

Grrr.

[Eric Mc]

In bed.

[tombaron]

On a ferry coming home from France of all places. I woke up about the time it happened, but thats just coincidence because i dont believe in any of that drivle. Got up quite early to get off the ferry, the news was still reporting that she'd been hurt in a car crash!

[bluespanner]

I was in Norfolk, on holiday. We were just getting out of my uncles Discovery, and it was announced on the radio. we were parked at a harbour at the time, and mum had a map and a bag of sandwiches in her hands.
Weird how you remember these things.

[esselte]

On the way back to Bordeaux after a day out at Futuroscope with the kids.

[D_Mike]

I was doing the paper round and so got all of the messed up stories that they published.

Then I ranted for the rest of week about how blown out of all proportion it was.

The newspapers invented the "public outpouring of grief" that week,

[trevorw]

Been in our first new house for a couple of weeks, some nutter had been nicking underwear of the washing lines! 2 days later then hear about the Crash etc, then 3 weeks later the dog died.

So pretty memorable for me.

[pony power]

why do we have to drag this up again, let the poor girl rest in peace

[D_Mike]

yeah, this thread is tantamount to exhumation.

[Mikey G]

I do remember it was either the next night or the following weekend, me and a freind were entertaining some girlfriends on a night out in Cardiff. At midnight the DJ decided to have a minutes silence in respect. Somebody on the dance floor decided he didnt like the silence and told the DJ to 'play some ing music' another reveler told him to show some 'respect' and a punch up ensumed. Not quite what was on order....

[staceyb]

Personally I didn't/don't see what all the fuss was/is about. I mean she was just a woman who died in a car crash.

[225]

It was about 6am and there were about 8 of us in a minibus back to my house after a rather "large" evening out and it didn't really sink in until we got up again and there was nothing but the news on all day.

[Plotloss]

Gazboy said:

D_Mike said: I was doing the paper round and so got all of the messed up stories that they published. Then I ranted for the rest of week about how blown out of all proportion it was. The newspapers invented the "public outpouring of grief" that week, The Mirror ran out of black ink...

See, something good did come of it after all...

[love machine]

Just did a gig at some crazy party on the North Coast. Been surfing, changed my trousers to shorts and locked the keys in the van with my trousers. Had to take the back window out with a knife and fork in order to get them back. Had the windows open and a blanket wrapped around me as the exhaust gas was getting pulled back through the back window. Had the radio on to take my mind off the cold and gale force draught.

Woke up in the morning to hear from mother that she had snuffed it.

"What's the difference between Diana and Michael Hutchence? Diana forgot to belt up!"