Happy St. George's Day

It's like one of those things you can get from garden centres. Where it's supposed to have partly crawled out of the ground. Like a mole.

OR like the loch Ness monster (popping up out of the water)

Oops! Forgot the flipping then!

KatGN

I think it's a rubbish dragon as a matter of fact!

Not favouritism, that means someone has given others a flag, but is denying you one. Mum, Mum, it's not fair!

More like inertia - if you want a flag, have a bally flag. Put one up outside your house and persuade others to fly one too. Start a campaign to restore pride in your country and fly its flag from every flagpole. But do it without jingoism and xenophobia.

I should have added - have just spotted it!

Without a drop of English blood in me I suppose I must consider myself an immigrant. I think it is very sad that emblems of national pride have been hijacked by the lunatic fringe - BNP , pit bull fighting yobs, football hooligans et al. If you see a St George's flag hanging out of an upstairs window or a pennant on a car, do you think "Oh, wonderful, a true patriot"?? I don't think so! Come on you English, reclaim your national flag, St George, your patriotism in a positive way. We Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French all do it - I could go on for ever, but won't [whew] emoticon.
PS In Stratford for opening night of DD's As You Like It on Saturday - so much going on in the town for Shakespeare's birthday weekend etc and it was wonderful - the good side of Englishness!

Make more of it? Not at all - we traditionally observe St George's day by ignoring it completely - let the lesser breeds demonstrate their inferiority by dancing in the streets and letting off fireworks on their pathetic patron saint's days - we are the English! Upper lips stiff, lower ones kept under control, we survey the world from our dizzy height...

Crumbs, crikey, Christopher Columbus, you'll be wanting us to put our name on the stamps next...

I agree 110% it favoritisim for the others to have a flag , we should have one.

Blow their flag , I am off to my health club for a few laps , well no , I am going to 150% effort , I will be like a little seal going through the water .
HA HA .

On this day about 50 years ago my very young son ,who had heard this on the radio, came running into the kitchen saying,'' Mummy, Mummy,. it's Shakespeare's birthday! Can we go to his party?'' His sister who is 22 months older , said,'' Don't be silly! It's much too far.'' I don't remember many of the funny things my children said but this one just takes the biscuit.

And they are suggesting they could keep it for mother-in-law threads.

The Other Lot have got the dragon.

Dorsett , what a lovely thing to say , that is EXACTLY how I feel about my G/C .

Happy St George's Day.

I don't normally go out for lunch on a Tuesday but a lot of pubs by me are doing half price food so I may be tempted.

Frank

It's also my DGD's 4th birthday - so in a way we do celebrate St.George. She has given us four years of happiness and fun, I love her so much I could burst.

And happy birthday W.S.

Goodness, he does seem like a nice boy!!

I think we should make more of the day too, so HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY!

Bags

Such a sweet boy he is too!

Yes I think we most definately should .

HAPPY ST GEORGES DAY

& [smiles ]

At least we have the Flag flying at our Local Town Hall but that is about it, St Georges Day always seem's to be very low key for some reason.