Happy Yorkshire Day!

[davywavy]

Might I wish you all a Happy Yorkshire Day, and offer commiserations to all those of you who had the misfortune to be born in any of the less good parts of the world.*

August 1st holds a special place in Yorkshire's history for, on this day in 1759, soldiers from Yorkshire regiments who had fought in the battle of Minden, in Germany, picked white roses from bushes near to the battlefields as a tribute to their fallen comrades.

There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day (like the Scots, Irish and Welsh do), and I don't think we could do better than make Yorkshire Day a national holiday. After all, it does celebrate the very best thing about this country.

^{*i.e. all of them.}

Comments

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Cultural homogenaity, m'dear...Land of Days of our Lives and McDonalds, from sea to shining sea...

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Who needs culture? We have glossy TV and the Internet!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And that concludes, m'lud, the case for the prosecution.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Are you going to sentence us to Lost or Passions?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I can think of no worse punishments than you have already inflicted upon yourselves.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I voluntarily subjected myself to the NHS. Consider me double damned.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I recently shocked a friend by telling them that, after my time in hospital last year, if I ever have to have surgery again I'm going private - and I'm prepared to go significantly into debt to do so.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I joined BUPA after my last spell in hospital. If you work for the NHS you get a discount.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Can't say I blame you. Private health insurance is cheaper and you get better services.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

They gave me a health check.

Everything was clean and on time. There were crackers, filter coffee and everything :)

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

I remember your experience and can't believe you weren't impressed that the nurses can do basics, like put bandages on you.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Not quite true - the nruses were the only good thing about my NHS experience. They were uniformly professional, patient, efficient and kind, even when faced with teh pile of crap they had to work with. A bit like Americans, really - lovely people forced by circumstances to live and work in appalling conditions.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

It's amazing what subjecting yourself to an autocratic labyrinth of incompetence and ignorance can do for a sense of personal excellence.