St George's Day...

[Nicos]

Anyone noticed it was St George's Day????
Don't know anyone with roses in bloom...and what were we supposed to eat????
I love to celebrate these occasions- but really, it's no wonder we don't jump up and down in excitement is it????
Did anyone do anything to celebrate???

[pigletwillie]

I didnt think we were allowed to celebrate St Georges day,


only St Patricks day, Bastile day, July 4th, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Eid, Burns night, St Andrews Day, Mothers day and British sausage week.

[bubblewrap]

Can we have a be nice to dragons week?
anyway St George was Turkish & never set foot in England.

I didnt think we were allowed to celebrate St Georges day,


only St Patricks day, Bastile day, July 4th, Yom Kippur, Diwali, Eid, Burns night, St Andrews Day, Mothers day and British sausage week.

Any excuse for a few beers.

[Bex]

Good bless the Turks I say, my avatar is where i go on holiday in Turkey and a few beers are consumed I can tell you.

The beavers excluded my son from St Georges day parade as he hadn't taken his promise. I'd have thought they would have needed all the help they could get.

[Alice]

Off course you're allowed to celebrate St Georges day. You've only got to want to.

[pigletwillie]

In England Alice its easier for a pub to get an extension to its licenced hours for St Patricks day than it is for St Georges Day. For the sake of being British we are not allowed to be English, hence the Scots and Welsh get their own assemblies but we get lumbered with the West Lothian issue.

[bramble]

I was in Derby for the weekend and everywhere we went there were signs and flags advertising the fact that it was St. Georges weekend.

[pigletwillie]

All done by individuals Bramble, there is virtually nothing done by a council or heaven forbid a school.

[bramble]

What a shame. Her in Ireland everyone gets together to make sure the day is a success. I don't often praise the Dublin corporation but have to say, every year they surpass themselves on putting on a great display for our patron saint.

[smallblueplanet]

Exactly what might we (the English) feel for a Saint foisted on us by the Normans? What exactly does St George's Day mean? I can understand St Patrick - he did at least do something meaningful for the Irish.

Non-celebration is just an excuse to have a go at PC. How many of you lot celebrated St George as a kid? I know I didn't although I did do stuff like maypole dancing.

[Nicos]

I didn't know they did pole dancing in those days SBP!!!!

[smallblueplanet]

Absolutely - we could do wonderful things with ribbons!

[TEB]

thread drift here, lets get back to the important thing - when sausage week

[Alison]

Tried googling it and seems we missed it last autumn, 30 October - 5 November 2006 so you'll have to wait a few months!!!!!

[TEB]

a few months- more like a lifetime
thanks for the info