St. George's Day 2026

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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney 14 hours ago

And it looks like the sun might even come out! Have a cracking day.

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Permalink Reply by Liz 11 hours ago

Oh, to be in England

Now that April's there,

And whoever wakes in England

Sees, some morning, unaware,

That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf

Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,

While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough

In England—now!

Robert Browning, from Home Thoughts from Abroad

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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) 9 hours ago

Difficult to compete with that one, but not forgetting "Long shadows and warm beer".

- John Major (1993).

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Permalink Reply by Liz 6 hours ago

and more Morris Dancing

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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter 2 hours ago

And,

the industrial revolution, parliamentary democracy, Shakespeare, the theory of evolution, discovery of the law of gravity, the world wide web, common law, English - the global language, King James' bible, penicillin, the scientific method, anaesthetics in surgery, Turner, power looms, mass production of steel, virtually all modern organised sports, James Bond, the jet engine, the steam engine, small pox vaccination, cat scans, the structure of DNA, Sherlock Holmes, first modern postal service, the Beatles, Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Sir Winston Churchill, the abolition of slavery, the British Empire.....

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Permalink Reply by Ozbawn 2 hours ago

Pork pies, the Spitfire, Def Leppard, ordnance survey maps, West Ham United...

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Permalink Reply by Brian Mahoney 2 hours ago

Morgan motor cars, JK Rowling, the first 9 Dr Whos, Devonshire cream teas, Elizabeth Hurley, CAMRA...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Easter 2 hours ago

And dogs! I like dogs. Did we invent dogs too?

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