British Expatriate Network

St Georges Day.
Happy St Georges day!
Did you forget? Do you care? Does it really matter & should it be a national holiday for the celebration of all things English, for the history and heritage of that place I left behind?
Have a good one!

This is my house today - my husband put the flag out before he went to work this morning. Frankly I'm not bothered one way or the other. there shouldn't be a St George holiday, but I do think they should bring back Empire Day.

So how do we celebrate this day? Dig out that jar of Branston? A nice joint of roast beef with the roasties and yorkies? Go out for a curry? Watch reruns of Euro 96 or Del Boy and Rodney? Argue over Oasis or Blur?

Unlike St. Patrick's Day, I think Brits stay home, don't get pissed, read to the kids and don't beat the wife. We're a boring lot aren't we?

It's also Denim Day,

http://www.denimdayinla.org/

but Happy St Georges day anyway

Dont recongnise any saints just religious voodoo .
but used to get on the st paddy day bandwagon when in england just to go on a enormous piss up ( just as thou i needed a excuse )

Shakespeare's Birthday too (I think...)

OK... it's 2:30am I'm at work and I'm STARVING! Then, people start talking about Branston and curry.

Why not start going into detail about a lovely plate of fish and chips, or better still a newspaper folded thing with loads of chips in it with salt and vinegar?

I ate a snickers 20 minutes ago and Dunkin Donuts won't open untill 4.

-- I was about to say (then I forgot) We always celebrated St Georges day at school. There was a George with really red hair in our class and he would blush.


2 hour later edit (it's a slow night)

To help clear up other dates/birthdays.... http://www.todaysbirthday.com/coldfusion...s.cfm?ID=1

Sun, April 27, 2008



NAME CATAGORY AGE BIRTH YEAR
EDWARD GIBSON WRITER DECLINE/FALL ROMAN EMPI 271 years Apr 27, 1737
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE INVENTOR MORSE CODE 217 years Apr 27, 1791
HERBERT SPENCER DISCOVERED SURVIVAL OF FITTEST 188 years Apr 27, 1820
ULYSSES S. GRANT US PRESIDENT 186 years Apr 27, 1822
EDWARD WHYMPER EXPLORER MATTERHORN 168 years Apr 27, 1840
CHARLES J. VAN DEPOELE INVENTOR ELECTRIC RAILWAY 125 years Apr 27, 1883
WALLACE H. CAROTHERS INVENTOR -NYLON 112 years Apr 27, 1896
LUDWIG BEMELMANS WRITER CHILDRENS BOOKS 110 years Apr 27, 1898
WALTER LANTZ ARTIST WOODY WOODPECKER 108 years Fri, Apr 27, 1900
LYNDON JOHNSON US PRESIDENT 100 years Mon, Apr 27, 1908
DAPHNE ANDERSON ACTRESS SNOWBALL 86 years Thu, Apr 27, 1922
JACK KLUGMAN ACTOR THE ODD COUPLE 86 years Thu, Apr 27, 1922
ANOUK AIMEE ACTRESS LA DOLCE VITA 76 years Wed, Apr 27, 1932
CASEY KASEM PERSONALITY RADIO 75 years Thu, Apr 27, 1933
SANDY DENNIS ACTRESS WHO'S AFRAID/WOOLF? 71 years Tue, Apr 27, 1937
JOHN C. EMMETT CO-DISCOVERED TAGAMET 69 years Thu, Apr 27, 1939
AUGUST WILSON WRITER FENCES 63 years Fri, Apr 27, 1945
DAVID S. LASCHER ACTOR BLOSSOM 36 years Thu, Apr 27, 1972
ANDRE GOWER ACTOR BABY MAKES 5 33 years Sun, Apr 27, 1975
ROBERT DONNER ACTOR MORK AND MINDY "year unknown"
KYLIE TRAVIS ACTRESS MODELS INC "year unknown"


and I can't nip to Dunkin Donuts because our nurse/patient ratio won't allow it.