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Happy St Georges Day! :D

 

We did ours on Saturday - parade through the village with St George on his pony, followed by all the scouts, guides, rainbows, cubs etc, and most of the village children dressed as 'British' characters. So lots of dragons, knights and princesses. Parade ended in the school playing field where they had stocks with a teacher in to throw wet sponges at plus all the usual stalls, tombolas, face painting, bouncy castle. Plus we paid 10p to visit the newly hatched chicks they had in my sons reception class 8)

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happy St Georges day everyone, I'm a bit sad my cat Smudge died on this day last year age 19, but although I miss her i have the memories of all the silly things she did they still make me laugh, she was a very stupid but loveable character RIP Smudge.

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It's my mum's birthday today - plus National Books' Day (in Spain) so we always tend to celebrate it in some way - usually buying a book (as if I needed an excuse... :oops: )

 

So apart from the fact that I'd probably be on the dragon's side... :twisted:

 

HAPPY ST GEORGE'S DAY to all English and Catalan people! :clap:

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I remember when youngest son was about 9 he went to school (in South London) dressed as St George with a flag flying out the back of his scooter (which we had put a paper horse's head on) all the taxi and van drivers honked their horns and waved it was lovely.

When I got home, my FIL rang me going rah rah we cant celebrate being English we'll all be shot as racists rah rah. :roll:

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It does seem such a shame that the onley time we are allowed to be English is when the footie or ruby teams are doing well in their respective world cups.

 

English should represent all sorts of attitudes and beliefs. I saw a news article this week about how tolerant the English people were about the amount of immigrants we have housed over the past 50 or so years since Enoch Powells famous rivers of blood speech. His predictions were not true and we as a nation should be proud of that.

 

We have some beautiful countryside, attractions and people in England, we should finally feel free to be proud. No other country has such a problem so why the hell do we? :evil:

 

Fly those flags babes, it does not mean you are a racist in the slightest.

 

Sarah.x

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I agree a bit of National pride would not go amiss right now. Although I don't think we Brits are culturally into flag waving, in the US and Canada their respective flags fly from most business buildings and people have them flying in their gardens too. The only thing I remember on St.Georges day is that if you make elderflower wine, St. Georges day is the day to collect the flowers.

 

Tessa

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Happy St. George's day.

 

Have been thinking of my late friend Janice today and her husband Julian. She's the reason why there is a St. George flag flying from St. John's church as when she first came to Yeovil on St George's day, (her birthday) she wanted to know why there wasn't a flag flying and they said the one they had had fallen apart. Later on she went out and bought one for them to fly. Now she's passed away in rememberance of her and after her death 2 years ago her son and daughters got together some money to buy a new St George's flag.

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I always enjoy St Georges day as it's my birthday 8)

 

Shame English people seem frightened to enjoy this day , seems politicaly wrong in many peoples minds :?:

 

UNBELIEVABLE! In other countries this would be a National Holiday and people would be out in the streets dressed up as knights and dragons partying...

 

Another way to look at it: come Duwali, Eid, Chinese New Year etc and the children at school build things to celebrate all the wonderful diversity of this lovely land... when it comes to the traditional British celebration day (both Christian and pre-Christian) they get totally ignored - in fact most people don't even remember the 8 pre-Christian festivals of the year... well, perhaps Samhain, but only because the Americans celebrate it under the name of Halloween... :shameonu: tut tut tut

 

So don't be shy peeps and CELEBRATE! :dance:

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We went to a St Georges celebration in Nantwich on Sunday.

 

Just a few stalls and medieval dancing and such.

We have a friend who owns a fairground organ which we loan to take to shows from time to time and we were asked to take it along and play on the square.

 

It rained all day! :roll:

 

We were next to a nice man doing punch and judy, magic and balloon modelling which was most entertaining. The kids enjoyed it.

 

My step daughter is in St Johns ambulance and spent the day on duty as David Dickinsons real deal was there. I didnt see him, but she did. Apparently he is every bit as day-glow as he is on the telly!! :lol:

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to my mind it makes way more sense for wales and ireland to celebrate their national days - as they have something to tangible against which to celebrate it - the preservation of what is perceived to be a minority culture - persecuted by a larger body (the scots don't go quite so big on St Andrew's Day)

 

bottom line for me is that it simply isn't very "English"

 

flag waving isn't really compatible with phlegmatic self-deprecation - the true essence of "Englishness"

 

it's what distinguishes us from the Americans

 

Phil (not getting excited at all about St George's Day)

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