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St George's Day
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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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Its a shame that there's more press and celebration around St Patrick's day (any excuse for a piss up) than there is over St George's!
Withnail
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Probably a bit too late for this year, but you could stage a mummers play -
http://www.boughtonmorris.uwclub.net/page33.html
This has the added advantage of seeing you less likely to be arrested for murder (though obviously killing the Frenchman would be more patriotic).
http://www.boughtonmorris.uwclub.net/page33.html
This has the added advantage of seeing you less likely to be arrested for murder (though obviously killing the Frenchman would be more patriotic).
Gramaisc
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The truth is that there's more fuss about SPD here* than over there...
* and even more in the USA..
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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Well I'm half way through a glass of wine already, so I shall drink it in the name of St Georges day
(and they say people aren't patriotic these days!)
(and they say people aren't patriotic these days!)
Are we still allowed to shoot Welshmen crossing a certain bridge in Chester?
John Marwood
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staffordjas
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Hubby mentioned it was St Georges Day when we saw some England flags outside a house on our walk tonight ,or I wouldn't have even known. Then I forgot again until reading this thread.........
Will have to go and crack open a can of cider now to celebrate !
Will have to go and crack open a can of cider now to celebrate !
Glam
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I think the only thing we did today was put up the England flag. I doubt the kitchen/restaurant.bistro/canteen or whatever they call it these days did anything special. Every other celebration day is catered for. Tho the coddle for St. Pats day was a bit suspect 1 year.
Withnail
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I believe it to be the case that you can do so anywhere within the city walls during the hours of darkness, but didn't 'they' recently have a bit of a clear out of some of the more outdated laws? Whether this was one of them i don't know.
A Frenchman would of course be better, but a Welshman might be easier to find. Luring him to Chester shouldn't be especially problematic.
Gramaisc
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Baa, hwmbwg.
Withnail
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I believe we have touched upon this before, but if anything he would be regarded as a Turk in today's money.
See i don't really subscribe to that idea. I think that the impetus behind some sort of 'reinstatement' of St Georges Day as a holy/holi day to rival St Paddy/Andrew/David is driven by two forces in particular, neither of which are particularly worthy of credit.
On the one hand you have a commercially driven desire for this - 'Treat your Great Aunt to a Harvester this St Georges' kind of thing, 'where's my St Georges Day card you feckin' ingrate(?)' and all the rest of it. On the other you have a Nationalist mentality that borders very near to insanity, the whole 'well the Irish/Scots/Welsh have their day, why can't we celebrate being English (?)' sort of thing.
In the final analysis it is all a load of beeswax.
If it was worth celebrating it would already be celebrated. It isn't so its not. It's really not that complicated.
I'm all for including another Bank Holiday into our already despairingly sparse calendar though, so does St George fit the bill on that account?
Not really. Given that we have a ludicrous 'Easter' situation that could see the festivities falling within a few days of the 23rd April, and May Day falling hard upon, this is very much not the time of year to slot in a new Public Holiday. If we must create a saints day that we could all get pissed/go dogging/eat curry/beat our patriotic breasts about, shurely St Edmund would be a better bet. I know that there is somewhere a campaign of some sort to reinstate the fellow as England's Patron Saint - he was certainly regarded as such before those pesky Normans with their Crusading ways decided that an 'indigenous' Saint wasn't 'one of us' - and the 20th November, though not ideal, would be a welcome break between the August bank holiday and Christmas.
Just a (rather long-winded) thought.
Gramaisc
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The August Bank Holiday here used to be on the first Monday. It was shifted* to the last Monday in order to reduce the long drag to Christmas. In Ireland it is still the first Monday and the first Monday in October was slotted in to provide a rather more effective break in the Autumn. This is to 'celebrate' nothing more than the day off itself and is simply known as the October Public Holiday.
*Still the first Monday in Scotland, I believe.