St George's Day. What are you doing?

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:40 AM

Someone I used to go out with was forever traumatised by being picked to stand at the bottom of the maypole and be tied up by the ribbons. He had screaming nightmares about it for months afterwards and was always very twitchy around May day.... he would still have bad dreams.... serve the violent little shit right.

It's a grand tradition, Mouldy! Keep it up and make sure you make at least one child wet itself with fright!

LTS

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: GUEST,Hille
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:35 AM

Wednesday now - but spent yesterday going to a family funeral, getting lost and a return journey that could take 6 hours on a good run turned into 11 hours driving. Possibly it didn't help deciding to head north from the South Coast and taken a straight line thru London and getting gridlock in the City for hour and a half - somewhere as I was beating my head against the steering wheel in frustration an emigrant to this country (didn't pick up where from ) was declaiming on BBCR2 how the English being a nation of oppressors absolutely should not be allowed to glory in celebrating their patriotism - Apparently, only oppressed nations like the Irish who have fought for independance should be allowed to do it. Apparently, we should quietly celebrate the qualities of life we do best - like giving as an immigrant, like him, as he freely admitted, a good standard of educational and employment opportunity (which was a bit of an own goal to any racist listening I'd have thought)

I'm afraid I had to switch him off - I have rarely found anything more blatantly offensive in my life (although steaming in a car with an outside temperature of 24C probably didn't help *G*)

Hille (descendant of Welsh, Italian, German, Spanish and French Hugenot immigrants and Arsenal Football Team founder)

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 08:50 AM

Alanww: popular misquote, it should read "And did those feet in ancient time", i.e. time (singular)

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:46 PM

My Guru (?) you should have come to Benington and been educated. Our lovely landlord often provides FREE beer for performers, but last night he laid on a feast of bangers and mash for allcomers.

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:54 PM

I just listened to Mike Harding who devoted tonight's programme to English music (well, songs actually, not music). And very dirgy and miserable it was too (especially those icons of English folk, Shirley Collins, Watersons, Coppers, Richard Thompson). The Nic Jones track from Unearthed was ace though.

Kitty

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: GUEST,LesB(uk)
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:44 PM

Interesting about the Mike Harding show, I don't normaly listen to all of it. I did this time because I thought it was the best one i've heard. I enjoyed the contributions from the 'icons', Dave Burland, Roy Bailey, Maddy Prior, etc, and rejoiced in not having to listen to M.O.R. country songs and over hyped, squeaky voiced, young ladies.
Still you can't please all of the people all of the time.
Les Brown

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:36 PM

Les B

I listened to all of it too, because of the spoken as well as sung contributions from the icons, and because it wasn't the usual MOR. We even got Joseph Taylor. It's just that I don't think the items selected would have grabbed me if I was a teenager, or even under 30. I'm just trying to remember what it was about the icons (eg Watersons, Young Tradition, Carthy & Swarbrick, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, Albion Band) that captivated me when I was younger, and I think it was the oomph, not the dirginess...

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Gareth
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 06:58 PM

I raised the subject at the "Olde Royal Oak" Ystrad Mynach last night,
and we drank to :-
"The Dragon"
And the sucess of the football teams (Soccer)of 1/. Nigeria, 2/. Sweden. and 3/. Argentinia.

What a pity that an honourable flag, the Cross of St George, has been hijacked by 1/. Lager Louts, and 2/. Extream Right wing fanatics.

However it is also worth noting that St George's day also marks the 'Zeebrouge Raid!' (sp)in 1918. An attempt to block and destroy the exit from the inland submarine pens to the North Sea.

And at least the White Ensign is the Cross of St George defaced (correct term) by the Union Flag in the top left canton.

Gareth

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: mouldy
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 02:21 AM

Well it arrived a day late for April 23rd, but it helped me get through shifting tons (literally) of topsoil onto the garden...my copy of "Grandson of Morris On" arrived from Amazon, so I got the 2 other earlier albums out as well and gave the neighbours a treat!

Andrea

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:41 AM

Jukie B and I will be celebrating tonight, two days late, at Bedford FMC. We have a few stirring patriotic songs lined up (it may be drivel, but by God, it's British drivel!)

Anyone recognise this?
Daddy Neptune one day to Freedom did say
"If ever I lived upon dry land
The place I would hit on would be little Britain."
Said Freedom, "Why, that's my own island!"

Ho wrote that, then?

Steve

Subject: RE: St Geoges Day. What are you doing?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:42 AM

Who wrote that...!