England and St. George.

Today was St. George's Day. Patron Saint of England (among other places). But since the English don't make a great deal of fuss about that sort of thing we didn't really pay a lot of attention to that fact.

For that matter neither do the Welsh (St David) nor the Scots (St. Andrew) about their saints. In fact none of us make anything like as much fuss as US Americans make about the Irish Patron Saint - even the Irish don't!! How is it that US Americans don't celebrate a Patron saint of the USA??

There is a small movement trying to get St. George's Day recognised as a bank holiday, (as if we need another spring bank holiday!!), but most English people aren't really that bothered.

Of far greater importance is the fact that it's also William Shakespeare's birthday. Now that's something worth celebrating. (And, yes, he did write the plays. No, the conspiracy theorists are not right, in fact they're so far off the planet that they're orbiting Alpha Centauri.)

And as far as the weather goes - what a glorious day. The sun shone. The sky was that particular shade of blue you only get in spring. It was warm. There were bluebells, and primroses, and the robin sang beautifully. The blue-tits cheeped their Morse code squeak. I saw the first butterflies of the year.

It was one of those great-to-be-alive days.

Ze

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