St Georges Day

and you too have a good day,Nonu I have pm'd you about holiday stuff.

Harold, England and St George!!!

And I hope all the Welsh, Scottish and Irish GNrs have a really nice day too.

(that "England" there is a practically invisible link)

Finally got it GLAM, will have a little think and get back to you in a day or so .

Lovely picture Jingle.

jingl - who's 'Harold'?

Happy St George's Day everyone

He's my mate next door anno.

Here's one for him.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/04/22/st-george-day-patriotic-reasons-pictures_n_5191257.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

I fully agreed with this article.

Part of me wishes that we celebrated the day more. But most of me is relieved, because it's too close to Easter and Mother's day.

I'm waiting for my neighbour to hoist a flag as he does every year on this date. I've never understood why he leaves it there until it's in tatters and finally removes it about October

Me too, Janerowena.
Nice to see the flag flying over Downing Street.

Happy Saint George's day to all English friends.
Pardon my ignorance but is there anything special to do or eat to celebrate the day? (stuck for ideas for tonight's menu)

Ye olde roast beef of England ???

I don't think you are being at all ignorant Granny23.

I have never heard of anything traditionally English to be eaten on St George's day except for perhaps Fish n' Chips or Chicken Tikka Masala

Happy St George's Day everyone.

So who wants English fare and what have we got to offer? Yes, we all know about roast beef and Yorkshire pud, fish and chips and a nice cup of tea.
But what about boiled beef and carrots with pease pudding, roast pork or chicken with sage and onion stuffing with roast potatoes, mushy peas, or liver and bacon, steak and kidney pie and pudding, Lincolnshire and Cumberland sausages, smoked English back-bacon, black pudding, Bath chaps, cornish pasties, Bakewell tart, Battenburg cake, lardy cake, bath buns, Eccles cakes, Sally Lunns, jam doughnuts, Chelsea buns, real muffins and crumpets, fruit crumble, real custard, English marmalade, custard creams and other biscuits....all washed down with a nice cup of Rosie-Lee or a large glass of good English beer....and for once not a whiff of curry, not that I've got anything against it. Have a nice day!

Battenberg cake?????? How did that get on the list

Bath chaps ??? I think I need a Google k

UGH ! Wish I hadn't bothered (sick emot)

'Wicky' says Battenberg originated in UK.

Sorry papaoscar I haven't even heard of bath chaps, bath buns or sally lunns !

I thought Granny23 was looking for ideas for this evenings meal not a list of (yucky) cakes

I am sure Battenberg did..just not sounding right! Slice of Mountbatten anyone?

In true patriotic style we're having Boeuf Bourguignon.

When I lived in Cornwall in the sixties, you could buy a whole or half roasted pig's head from a café in our village - wonderful! And of course that's what brawn is made from - also known as 'head cheese'.

Fish and chips, though? Not really indigenous - the fried fish a Jewish staple (eaten cold on Shabbos) and the chips from Belgium, where they are still popular street food, with a nice dollop of mayo.