Happy St Andrews Day

[Aspman]

We don't really go round saying that (not even a national holiday, sniff) but St Andrew's Day it is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew

I advise you to treat it like St Patrick's day and go and get drunk.

When drunk go out into the street and sing this (ideally out of tune)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_scotland

Enjoy.

[foxyloxley]

so why DON'T we have our patron saints day as a national holiday ?

Ireland get to go wild on St Patricks day [Hell, EVERYONE goes wild then ]
yet the rest of us have to do with zip ...........

and for those that wonder who I'm talking about :

England = St George = April 23rd
Scotland = St Andrew = November 30th
Wales = St David = March 1st

[Aspman]

There is a bit of a movement for a St Andys holiday. It's been raised with the Executive but it didn't get very far.

I think Burns day is actually celebrated more.

I'm not religeous so I wouldn't celebrate these patron saints for that reason but I think they're a good show of national pride. Nationalism in a good way.

We're not too bad at the 'Proud of our Country' stuff up here but I think England has lost out to the 'In-Ger-Lund' beer swillers a bit.