I wish you all a very happy St. George's Day!

“I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’”

Henry V

Hear, hear!

VS, I'm not English but I like to join in all the festivities! Happy St. George's Day!

Please do! I'm of English descent, and I'll take any excuse to raise a glass to Merrye Olde Englande. :)

I'm a transplant from England but still remember our high days and holidays. Growing up in England we always remembered St. Georges Day.


Thanks for remembering :-)

Extremely cool !

Thank you!

Very little celebration goes on - just a few isolated events here and there. There's a campaign to try and make it a public holiday. Would you believe that there's more goes on, on St. Patrick's Day.

The English i don't know why almost seem to not want to allude to their heritage and thus St George's day is virtually a non event .
As a schoolkid even though i live in a non Welsh speaking part of Wales we always got dressed up; and each class would do a Welsh song or a poetry recital for St David's day . Perhaps the fact that he actually was Welsh(St David) might also help as opposed to St George being either Turkish or of Eastern European blood .

I don't think St George's ethnic origin is the source of the anxiety at all. I think that the English associate St George's day with extreme nationalism and the far Right and that is why we are hesitant to celebrate. We're all much happier celebrating other nations festivities whether St Patrick's day or St David's day.

It seems to be considered acceptable to be proud to be British, but not English.

Even the English flag, St George's Cross, is often looked upon as an embarrassing emblem of football fanaticism and zenophobia - so much so that periodically Council's and schools ban people from flying the flag.

Growing up about 20 miles north east of London with my parents of English/Irish blood and never being what I thought very patriotic, Mum would always want daffodils in the house on St. David's day.

I remember seeing Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) this past St. David's day wear a miniature leek in his coat lapel instead of a daffodil, many people couldn't figure out what the strange object was. He wore it when he met Prince Harry at the air field on his return from the middle east.

As do I dear English friends and POLers!! I can trace my English ancestry way back to the 1400's. There also was a little Irish that snuck in there somehow, as well.