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Barkingbiker
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 Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: For St George. |
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Tomorrow, 23 April, is St George's Day. He is of course the patron saint of England and many other countries, but not so well known, the patron saint of Scouting. So to all English men, women & children, also all members of worldwide Scouting, a very happy St George's Day for tomorrow.
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PS Why is it not a bank holiday?
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Highlander
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Surprisingly, it is a Bank Holiday in this part of Scotland!
Happy St Georges day South of the Border 
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Barkingbiker
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| Highlander wrote: | Surprisingly, it is a Bank Holiday in this part of Scotland!
Happy St Georges day South of the Border |
Well enjoy Highlander and seems like we need to keep our sense of humour this side of Hadrian's wall   Thanks for the greeting.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: |
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I spent some of my primary school years in Scotland and we used to get St Andrew's Day off--not that you could do much in the meagre amount of daylight prevailing on 30th November!
I bet the school holiday that day bit the dust a long time ago--did it?
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Highlander
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You're right, St Andrews day is no longer a holiday. There have been some calls to re-instate it though.
PS BB -its not a bank holiday with you is it? 
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Cherskiy
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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St Andrew's Day happens to be my birthday - therefore it should be celebrated!
Seriously, was today a bank holiday north of the border? Didn't seem like it driving into Glasgow on the M8 this morning at around 0730 - still plenty of traffic heading into the city from the east and south-east.
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Highlander
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Hi Cherskiy,
When I said "this part of Scotland", just North Fife and Dundee. We must have a lot of English bank managers
Very much a local Bank holiday (these mini bank holidays are quite common up here)!
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in Uddingston, Glasgow, at one time in the 1950s and we got holidays in May and September that other places in Scotland didn't get.
Actually, at that time quite a few places opened on Christmas Day!
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gfloyd
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| Highlander wrote: | Hi Cherskiy,
When I said "this part of Scotland", just North Fife and Dundee. We must have a lot of English bank managers
Very much a local Bank holiday (these mini bank holidays are quite common up here)! |
Maybe the banks open less in Scotland so that they can save money
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| iwarburton wrote: | I lived in Uddingston, Glasgow, at one time in the 1950s and we got holidays in May and September that other places in Scotland didn't get.
Actually, at that time quite a few places opened on Christmas Day!
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And who said the Scottish were so tight that they wouldn't spend Christmas
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Highlander
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Hey gfloyd!
I'm a laid back Scot but anyone who has visited Scotland will know the one thing we are not is mean-spirited!! 
No more such jokes please! ( )
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Cherskiy
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Strange to hear of 'local' bank holidays - I know you have some different ones to us north of the border but I didn't know about these ones....
No argument from me about Scots hospitality, especially the further north I go - my couple of weeks in Orkney last year were made all the more enjoyable by just how warm and friendly the locals were. 
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| Cherskiy wrote: |
No argument from me about Scots hospitality, especially the further north I go - my couple of weeks in Orkney last year were made all the more enjoyable by just how warm and friendly the locals were. |
I agree. I was in the highlands last year & they were very friendly. And it was even sunny!
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Cherskiy wrote: |
No argument from me about Scots hospitality, especially the further north I go - my couple of weeks in Orkney last year were made all the more enjoyable by just how warm and friendly the locals were. |
I agree. I was in the highlands last year & they were very friendly. And it was even sunny! |
Yep, likewise - I spent a week flitting around NW Sutherland last June and it was lovely - even managed to camp up at Durness, near Cape Wrath, without the tent getting blown into the Atlantic Ocean! Seriously, though, if distance, lack of amenities plus single-track roads aren't a put-off, it's one of the best places in the country to visit. I absolutely love it up there.
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| Highlander wrote: | You're right, St Andrews day is no longer a holiday. There have been some calls to re-instate it though.
PS BB -its not a bank holiday with you is it? |
No Highlander it's not a bank holiday with us, nor is St David's day, 1st March or St Patrick's day, 17 March; however, I am one of these strange people that is British 1st, English 2nd and don't care about being European. So being British I think that we should have a bank holiday for 1st March, 17th March, 23rd April & 30th November, all over the UK. What say you?
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Highlander
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Barkingbiker wrote: | | Highlander wrote: | You're right, St Andrews day is no longer a holiday. There have been some calls to re-instate it though.
PS BB -its not a bank holiday with you is it? |
No Highlander it's not a bank holiday with us, nor is St David's day, 1st March or St Patrick's day, 17 March; however, I am one of these strange people that is British 1st, English 2nd and don't care about being European. So being British I think that we should have a bank holiday for 1st March, 17th March, 23rd April & 30th November, all over the UK. What say you?
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I totally agree. Long live the Union!
Brought up in the Highlands buy an English mother (who is half Irish) and a Scottish father who was half Scottish, quarter English and quarter Welsh makes me a proud British Scot!
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Pleased that there is at least another that believes that Great Britain is great because of the union and that the sum is greater than the individual countries would be if totally devolved. We must keep our individual heritage without detracting from the power of the union of our great individual countries. My wife is 1/2 Irish, my son in law is Welsh and my grandmother was Scottish, paternal, my great grandfather was a Romany, maternal and I have a Scandinavian surname! Bit of a bar steward, but makes you a strong breed!
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Highlander
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We may have had our ups and downs as individual countries but we will always (as long as we keep the bl**dy SNP at bay) stand together when it is needed. We are too much of a cultural mongrel for that to change now.
PS. We are just one big island after all!
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We have our ups and downs, but when we stand together we are unbeatable, as you say an island nation.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:36 am Post subject: |
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The Scots tell mean-spirited jokes against themselves. I don't think they're really like that at all.
But that won't stop me from re-telling of the apochryphal (spelling?) newspaper headline:
Two Taxis Collide in Aberdeen Street.
Twenty-four Passengers Injured.
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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I will, of course, be celebrating 1st August with a white rose.
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Highlander
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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| iwarburton wrote: | The Scots tell mean-spirited jokes against themselves. I don't think they're really like that at all.
But that won't stop me from re-telling of the apochryphal (spelling?) newspaper headline:
Two Taxis Collide in Aberdeen Street.
Twenty-four Passengers Injured.
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Aberdonians.... now that different
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