Well, today is St Piran's Day, March 5th.
St Piran, patron saint of tin miners is the St George of Cornwall, with it's Cornish flag and Cornish language - and even its own unitary authority to pay your council tax to.
Perranporth in Cornwall, translates in Cornish as the Port of Piran - well, what d'you know?
Anyone coming out with me tonight to celebrate St Piran's Day?
In Ireland on Paddy's day, they drink their Guinness.
And in Cornwall we drink Tribute, Doombar, Heligan Honey and Cornish Knockers!
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Plenty of decent beers down this neck of the woods.
And, of course - just got to be celebrated!
Oh yes, I should say so!
HSD is lethal stuff at 5.5%. Try drinking 3 pints of that on an empty stomach at lunch time.
I know......I have!
Only GH could turn a thread about an excuse for a few pints into a rant about regional assemblies.
Cornwall once was independant of England, inhabited by the Celts (read: Ancient Britons pushed back into the parts of Britain that the Romans couldn't reach).
"Mebyon Kernow - the Party for Cornwall is a modern and progressive political party, leading the fight for the self-government of Cornwall through the establishment of a legislative Assembly.
We exist to fight for ALL the people of Cornwall with a political programme that offers an alternative to the London-centred parties.
We are campaigning for a better deal for Cornwall and a fairer, more equitable World, with policies founded on the core values of prosperity for all, social justice and environmental protection."
PS: I didn't know any of that either. I just copied it from their website for educational purposes only.
;o)
having just had to move my seat before i lumped this tosser on the train going on for 20 mins to his partner how he wouldnt wear "the f**king English flag" at a firms bash (he was a Jock) and why he thought it was sh*t -------------------im geting old because i just moved to another seat. So some where out there is a very very very lucky yng man.
What next? Freedom for Tooting ;o)
Have a happy Doombar
No, no, GH .... you've got hold of the wrong end of the stick.
All the Cornish want is increased fishing quotas to stop Looe and Newlyn becoming an unemployment no-mans land,
thus preventing all the pubs being closed down.
And affordable housing for 17 year old girls who get pregnant in the village bus shelter.
PS: Other than that, they only want to talk about it all over a few pints of Tribute.
Cider is hard to get down here - we've got no apple trees, just Celtic crosses and abandoned fishing boats.
;o)
Off to Cornwall for a weekend next month - looking forward to it.
;o)
I've a "Party 7" kicking around under the stairs from way back. Someone else can bring the light ales ; )
Think i have "jack pot 4" from about 1973 at my mums.
I've got a bottle of Mackeson in the fridge specially for you, Ray!
Not too far from me is the River Tamar which since Roman times has been the border between England and Cornwall.
The Saxons later built island or peninsula fortificatons in strategic positions on the Cornish side to enable them to keep control of the river and tidal estuary (the main inland transport route in those days, remember) - and even today, they have Saxon based names.
Two that come to mind are Ince Castle by Saltash, and Inswork near Millbrook, (you can see from the spelling that Inswork is derived from Ince Worth - and even today, the German word for 'island' is 'insel').
Ince Worth in Saxon means 'Island Fortification'.
Of course, 200 years or so after the Saxons landed, along came the Vikings who created their country of Danelaw, on the Eastern strip of Britain from North to South.
Interestingly the Vikings were derived from earlier Saxon invasion from the Germanic area - the Saxons went North to Scandinavia, as well as West across the North Sea to England.
And in turn, the Vikings from Scandinavia (2nd generation Saxons) went West to England, and South to Normandy - the Normans were the Norse Men, ie from the North, and 2nd generation Vikings, and 3rd generation Saxons.
So England was occupied by 3 waves of Saxon derived invaders, the Saxons themselves, the Vikings and the Normans.
If you follow me .....!
If I'd known RedZed, I'd have sent you up a bottle of Skinners' Betty Stogs.
It'd wash down that pasty a treat.
Well, it is St Piran's day ..... which is where we came in, of course.
Doubt if Jimmy's will have any Betty Stogs in so I'll have to settle for some Speckled Hen...