Wednesday, April 23, 2008

St Georges day


April 23rd,lets be proud to be english and celebrate our patron saint!!!


Lots of John Smiths bitter,roast beef with yorkshire pudding ...the should make it a bank-holiday!

2 comments:

Hot_Vimto said...

Wasn't St George Turkish?
He was certainly from the ottoman empire.
How about Sir Winston Churchill day? he defeated the greatest evil the world has ever known. Or we could celebrate some Turk (who may not of excisted) killing a drangon (which certainly did not excist).

Typical INGERLAND. No day for these

Sir Winston Churchill, (1874–1965), statesman and orator, Prime Minister during Second World War and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, (1806–1859), engineer, creator of Great Western Railway and other significant works

Charles Darwin (1809–1882), naturalist, originator of the theory of evolution through natural selection and author of On the Origin of Species

Sir Isaac Newton (1643–1727), physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist, regarded by many as the greatest figure in the history of science

John Lennon (1940–1980), musician with The Beatles, philanthropist, peace activist, artist

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1758–1805), naval commander

Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Lord Protector

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), polar explorer
Captain James Cook (1728–1779), explorer

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), military commander, statesman and Prime Minister 1828–1830 and 1834

Charles Dickens (1812–1870), author

Sir Frank Whittle (1907–1996), jet engine inventor

SIR DOUGLAS BADER (1910–1982), aviator and charity campaigner

Sir Francis Drake (c.1540–1596), English naval commander

Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), composer

George Stephenson (1781–1848), railway pioneer

Bobby Moore (1941–1993), footballer and Captain of England 1966 World Cup winning team

The Unknown Warrior, soldier of the Great War

King Richard III of England (1452–1485), monarch (reigned 1483–1485)

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), author and philologist

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), English explorer

Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979), aviation technology pioneer

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), Internet pioneer and inventor of the World Wide Web

I'm as patriotic as Jack (probably more as I serve the queen)
but a red cross on a white flag is not good enough!
I don't think there all English but a day celebrating any of them gets my vote!!!!!



'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'- Sir Winston Churchill.
Whos singing?
"ONE WINNIE CHURCHILL"

Jack said...

I work for the queen too!
yes i agree lets make everyday a celebration,il drink to that!