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

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

Happy Yorkshire day to you, may you always suffer delusions of Yorkshire's grandeur :p

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Aw, look at the poor little non-Yorkshire person. There, there. It must be awful for you.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

It's marvellous to be from Lancashire, wouldn't want to be from your side.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Your words are English, but they make no sense in this context.

[chrisvenus]

There's been a lot of talk about how England should have it's own National Day

There has? Isn't that what St George's Day is or am I being confused here?

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

You're all the same.

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Aye.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Says you, Ms. fan of homogenous-land.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Not as a national holiday, no.

[chrisvenus]

ah, I see. Bloody northerners just looking for more excuses not to work... :)

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

denial of true greatness won't do you any good you know

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Indeed, hurrah for Lancashire!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, as opposed to Southerners, who never needed an excuse in the first place.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

See, Finally you understand.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

not my denial, your denial

I am the one from a place of greatness

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

That's rather like cheering the losers at the Special Olympics, wouldn't you say?

[riksowden.livejournal.com]

Its not a public holiday though, which is whats being suggested.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Hey! We have brown people, they're just kept in the minority. Where they belong.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Wow, what on earth must it be like in your head?

[belak-krin.livejournal.com]

We do have St George's day I suppose, unfortunatly it only seems to be celebrated by the brewers of Bombardier.

I feel a great need for a proper Yorkshire pudding now..

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Still the same, baby you're still the same....

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

All the same!

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* smooches *

Happy Yorkshire Day to you too.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it should be St Botulph, patron Saint of Yorkshire.

[chrisvenus]

Weirdly though having checked by Irish is best for holidays. The welsh get the same as us. The northern irish get the same but with an additional st patricks day.

The scottish get much the same as us - they get an extra day at new year but they don't get easter monday...

Ref: http://www.dti.gov.uk/employment/bank-public-holidays/index.html and http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays