St George's Day

[Joolz]

Early I know-

This royal throne of Kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature herself,
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm,
this England.




May the goodness of St. George,
the Patron Saint of England,
inspire and bless you and yours
on this, our nation's
Festival Day
April 23rd.

[Tonyblack]

Happy St George's Day to all you English . . . Georgians, Egyptians, Bulgarians, Aragonians, Catalans, Romanians, Ethiopians, Greeks, Indians, Iraqis, Lithuanians, Palestinians, Portuguese, Serbians, Ukrainians and Russians! And not forgetting Scouts.

[Who's Wee Dug]

I thought he was Hungarian Tony, but happy St. Goerge's day anyway.

[jaznbonnie]

Happy St. Georges Day!

[Tonyblack]

I thought he was Hungarian Tony, but happy St. Goerge's day anyway.

Wiki says he was a Roman soldier of Syrian origin. Whatever, he wasn't English.

[The Mad Collector]

Syria sounds likely, there are lots of stories about him that I came across when out there. The site of the St Georges hotel in Beirut is one of the locations given for his fight with the dragon. I assume they have rebuilt the hotel now but when I was there the place was still a wreck after the civil war and the Israelis were still occasionally bombing the city so you could see the promontory better without a damn big hotel in the way.



Happy St Georges

[Bouncy Castle]

Happy St George's Day everyone.

(Twould have been my dear old dad's birthday today.)

[Penfold]

HAPPY ST. GEORGES DAY!

[pip]

Do you get a day off and get drunk while Americans wander around the country thinking they're English.
St Patricks day is like that

[Bouncy Castle]

Oddly enough, no!

In fact there has been uproar in past years when pubs, etc, have wanted to put up the flag of St George, and have extended hours, and have been refused, and yet only a month or so earlier, it was positively welcomed for Paddy's Day.

[meerkat]

HAPPY ST GEORGES DAY!

[pip]

Oddly enough, no!

In fact there has been uproar in past years when pubs, etc, have wanted to put up the flag of St George, and have extended hours, and have been refused, and yet only a month or so earlier, it was positively welcomed for Paddy's Day.

Ah . I forgot it was a sin to be English in England

[Bouncy Castle]

It certainly is.

[pip]

Madness I tells ya.

[Who's Wee Dug]

Oddly enough, no!

In fact there has been uproar in past years when pubs, etc, have wanted to put up the flag of St George, and have extended hours, and have been refused, and yet only a month or so earlier, it was positively welcomed for Paddy's Day.

Ah . I forgot it was a sin to be English in England

Unless you are a fundemental muslim then you can put up anything you like.