[Archived] st george's day celebrations

[roverandout]

it infuriates me how theres never anything in the paper or television to celebrate a day about being english, st george's day and yet when it comes to paddy's day its a big deal. Im going out to celebrate it, what is eveyone else doing to celebrate out patron saint?

[LeChuck]

St George's Day is 2nd May this year...

The only reason people celebrate St Patrick's Day (non-Irish anyway) is to have an excuse to drink lots of Guinness. Nobody actually cares about the history.

[cn174]

St George's Day is 2nd May this year...

St George's Day doesn't move, it is the 23rd April.

2nd May is May Bank Holiday.

[LeChuck]

It's 2nd May isn't it? It gets moved whenever it falls too close to Easter.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/saints/george_1.shtml

[roverandout]

yes thats the church celebrations of it, but it will always be april 23rd to most people. So im hoping the pubs in blackburn will still celebrate it.

[cletus]

I`ll be visiting the Black Bull (three bees brewery) at the top of Heys Lane this evening to sample some of their english real ales

If anybody wants to buy my a pint i will gladly accept their offer.....seeing as its st georges day

[JAL]

Extremely disappointing not to see Blackburn Cathedral flying the St.Georges flag yesterday, very poor.

[Tom]

I`ll be visiting the Black Bull (three bees brewery) at the top of Heys Lane this evening to sample some of their english real ales

If anybody wants to buy my a pint i will gladly accept their offer.....seeing as its st georges day

How was it? The in-laws were going to pop in but said it was packed when they went past.

[Rovermatt]

St George's Day is 2nd May this year...

The only reason people celebrate St Patrick's Day (non-Irish anyway) is to have an excuse to drink lots of Guinness. Nobody actually cares about the history.

I can assure that's why the Irish celebrate it too.

[ABBEY]

ive been in bed since 2am friday night with a sickness bug..and missed all celebrations

[cletus]

How was it? The in-laws were going to pop in but said it was packed when they went past.

Tbh.....it wasn`t a brilliant experience. Hopefully it`ll get better.

It was too full of people who obviously don`t go in pubs very often.

The bar was three deep & it took over half an hour to get a drink, due to there being 10 people behind the bar & only 2 of them actually serving/working The two who were serving only seemed to be serving people they knew, which was a tad annoying.

We ended up having two drinks then buggering off to the Feildens where it was far more civilised.