DadAgain

Yep - its that time of year again when the streets are full of red and white and everyone celebrates all things English.

What are you doing this year to celebrate? Have you chosen which civicly hosted party you'll be visiting?
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No parade down Brisbane's Queen St Mall? No speciality days in the pubs around town? What is this glaring omission?

pfffft. Someone should at least be quoting Shakespeare and drinking real ale somewhere....



...anyway - Happy Birthday me!!!!!

rasen78

But hark, what light from yonder window breaks?

. Happy birthday and happy 53rd anniversary to my mum and dad

old.sparkles

Pen Blwydd Hapus i Ti - OR Happy Birthday to you

and sorry - no shakespearean quotes from me

Jon77

Ah St Georges day.

I think I will do the do the most English thing possible to honour this day.

Nip down the bottle shop and buy a oversized plastic bottle of nasy cider get shat faced and push a few shopping trollies in the local small river.

Nothing more patriotic than the sight of an upside down shopping trolly in a stream and a few Tesco shopping bags stuck blowing in the wind on a metal fence, it is an image that is enough to bring a tear to your eye.

ozzieeagle

Could always reminisce about taking a trip down a High st in Swindon afterwards.... Might cheer you up.





Blimey Blue Skys !!!

As for me, I might go watch I.D.

Happy Birthday DA

Pollyana

Love Swindon. Many happy years spent there!!
Off to Nottingham today so will toast Shakespeare and St George in England's oldest Inn

http://www.triptojerusalem.com/

ozzieeagle

Good luck to you.... wish I had the faith to find any prospect of enjoyment in the UK in the future, but that faith seems to have been destroyed.

papilon

Work with a guy from Nottingham and he has often talked about that pub. Apparently there are caves underneath. Great name for a boozer as well. Must be the only one in the UK.

rasen78

The caves aren't under the pub, they are in it! The pub is built into the cliff face and the caves are used as alcoves. It is also disputed that it is the oldest pub as The Bell and The Salutarion have also laid claim

http://news.experiencenottinghamshir...in-nottingham/

carolinephillips

I remember when there used to be shops in Swindon....in fact it was the nearest shopping mecca for me when I was growing up, as Salisbury was not much cop, (too posh,) but I only went twice a year when I needed new shoes!!

Bernieboy

That ****** killed the husband n father of mammy and baby soup dragon,the Clangers were NOT amused,the b'stard !!!!

ozzieeagle

My very good lady friends K and P from here in Coburg, will be in that pub within 3 weeks. Staying in Nottingham overnight on a trip from London to Scotland. They'll definitely be noticed.

DibDob

Thats not a high street in swindon

asher

I recently saw photos of princess Margaret's being demolished! I trained there it was so sad last time I went back to have a look around the town centre had got very scruffy.

Is Brunel rooms still there with the revolving bar?

ozzieeagle

Best tell the Daily Mail they got it wrong in this article then

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ands-shut.html

Picture came with the following caption...

Depressed: Boarded up shops in Swindon, Wiltshire. Mary Portas complained that many areas had been 'clone towns' and said the recession was giving an opportunity to create something new.