St Georges Day.

[Keith at Tregenna]

Oh joy, Led Zepplin are releasing re-mastered copies of their albums and are releasing previously un heard tracks.
rgds
JA

Ta: K.

[Keith at Tregenna]

St George's Day:

St George's Day: why England won't celebrate its patron saint:

How St George, a third-century Roman soldier from modern-day Turkey, came to be patron saint of England.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/arts-life/5...s-patron-saint

[Captain Kong]

Hi J.A.
Around 1995ish I was looking after Annes Flower shop while she was in the Undertakers next door sorting out flowers for a funeral when a big dark green Rolls Bentley with a Big bearded gorrila driving pulled up outside.
Into the shop walked Robert Plant of Led Zep.
He wanted a bouquet of flowers for his mother and for his lady friend at the hotel they were staying at. So I went next door , told Anne , she couldnt get in the shop fast enough.
We had a good chat with him as she made the bouquets,
He had just flown in from Las Vegas. I made a coffee for us as we talked, interesting, I delivered the bouqouet to his girl friend at the Hotel and he to the other on a visit to hIs mother who was in a Nursing home..
He returned again a few weeks later for more flowers, He spent more than £200 with us, which was a good order in those days. Anne was all excited about it.
We have a few records of Led Zep and the Book of led zep.
Cheers
Brian

[Keith at Tregenna]

After all the talk of flying the flag I have'nt seen anything about it being St.Georges Day today.(Unless my eyes are bad and I have missed it)
Regards.
Jim.B.

FEW ON SITE PAID LIP SERVICE TO HRH, What chance would George have ?

K.

LINK: http://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/g...21-1926-a.html

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Sir Winston Churchill: "A Nation which has forgotten its past can have no future."

K.

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Apparently: St. George's week, is what I seek re: MN Week.

Events for St. George's week.

Once again we are building a list of all the St. George's Day events that will take place throughout England in 2014. There was a 50% increase in the number of St. George events organised for 2010, let's make 2014 even better.

WITHOUT INPUT, FORGET IT:

Your help, works, if you help ?

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Whale, oil, beef, hooked: says the other half of me.

Wetherspoon pub is decorated with Union Jacks because the flag of St George 'might offend people'

Customers outraged after Union Jack flags are hung to celebrate England's national day, St George's Day

They claim the St George's flag was not used in case it caused 'offence'

Punters at the Wetherspoons pub in Kent slammed the decision as 'political correctness gone mad'

WHAT THE FRICK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nd-people.html

Would not fly your flag in Wales, but any excuse for a party.


K.

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Same time next year then ?

K.

[Lou Barron]

If I am right did not this use to called Empire Day and it use to be a holiday went I went to school Don't I live in the passed

[happy daze john in oz]

I have two England ---Brian.

I have heard Brian that the official falg of Boltonstan has two Burquas rampant and a plate of curry, is this so?

[robpage]

The unfortunte thing about St George's day is the yob element love it , they mistake Nationalist views for racist views , and when people see the mob taking it as theirs , it puts off the average law abiding middle of the road citizen . I would love St Georges Day as a national holiday , but a movable feast , where a bank holiday may be on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and not a Monday will not happen , it threatens commerce and industry too much , so what I would like , is sometime in the May / June period to coincide with Her Majesty's Official Birthday , a Monday Bank Holiday , England Day , Queens DAy , or whatever you want to call it , but without the British National Party and their friends taking it as hate anyone who is not a White of Anglo Saxon Descent

[cappy]

If I am right did not this use to called Empire Day and it use to be a holiday went I went to school Don't I live in the passed

#####no louis you dont live in the past but i remember empire day and can still remember drawing a pictur of lots of people waving flags and under neath i wrote today is empire day we wave our flags....probably about 5 or 6 years old .....we them days used to sing the now forbidden song .....i vow to thee my country ......regards cappy

[Jim Brady]

Rob I think you are right in some respect,if you look at Keiths post and the pictures at the end of the story it certainly does'nt look like a party/celebration time more like to antagonise people.A 12ft structure of a knight in armour draped in the flag of St.George is being paraded through Swindon and as it happens it is amongst mainly Asian people funnily enough it looks like an Asian girl is carrying the flag of St.George.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[robpage]

Political correctness appears to have 'won the day' when in 1958 Empire Day was re-badged as British Commonwealth Day, and still later in 1966 when it became known as Commonwealth Day.

The date of Commonwealth Day was also changed to 10th June, the official birthday of the present Queen Elizabeth II.

The date was again changed in 1977 to the second Monday in March, when each year The Queen still sends a special message to the youth of the Empire via a radio broadcast to all the various countries of the Commonwealth.

A now largely forgotten anniversary, ..... Remember, Remember Empire Day, the 24th of May. or rather now with a new title so we keep the rest of the World happy another day another title another time