St George's day

[Keraulophone]

...and St Piran! I didn't notice any St G celebrations here yesterday but St Piran's day was well celebrated in the Count(r)y.

Then you weren't at Truro Cathedral, where the gentlemen of the choir celebrated St George at the evening Eucharist with a Cornish [sic] setting of the Mass (for ATB - sung in English, it being St G's feast) by Helston born-and-bred Russell Pascoe, now a well-known fixture of Truro's musical landscape.

Naturally, our celebrations in Truro on St Piran's day were several orders of magnitude greater.

[Flosshilde]

And what exactly have moats, sewers, RB's views on Elgar, and excruciatingly flimsy attempts at paronomasia got to do with 'St George and the Public Holiday', ahinton ... ?

Some of the people inclined to celebrate St George's day could well have come from the sewers.

[visualnickmos]

Some of the people inclined to celebrate St George's day could well have come from the sewers.

Yes - and they claim to be proud to be British, whilst exhibiting the most unBritish traits!

[ahinton]

And what exactly have moats, sewers, RB's views on Elgar, and excruciatingly flimsy attempts at paronomasia got to do with 'St George and the Public Holiday', ahinton ... ?

About as much as several other things on this thread that I also did not introduce but to which I made passing response!

[ahinton]

Some of the people inclined to celebrate St George's day could well have come from the sewers.

Some of them perhaps even conno(/a)issewers...

[cloughie]

Then you weren't at Truro Cathedral, where the gentlemen of the choir celebrated St George at the evening Eucharist with a Cornish [sic] setting of the Mass (for ATB - sung in English, it being St G's feast) by Helston born-and-bred Russell Pascoe, now a well-known fixture of Truro's musical landscape.

Naturally, our celebrations in Truro on St Piran's day were several orders of magnitude greater.

But then Bishop Tim is a Yorkshireman.
Next weekend we go international when large numbers of English and Foreign Male Voice Choirs will be in the County for the Cornwall International Male Voice Choir Festival.

[P. G. Tipps]

... excruciatingly flimsy attempts at paronomasia ...

Some of them perhaps even conno(/a)issewers...

[Keraulophone]

But then Bishop Tim is a Yorkshireman.

True, but there be signs that ee's beginnin' to do things dreckly.

Next weekend we go international when large numbers of English and Foreign Male Voice Choirs will be in the County for the Cornwall International Male Voice Choir Festival.

...and 'tis 'ansom the Cathedral Choir be openin' it.

[cloughie]

True, but there be signs that ee's beginnin' to do things dreckly.


...and 'tis 'ansom the Cathedral Choir be openin' it.

...and 'tis the Trelawny Male Choir be closin' it (and Bishop Tim MC for the final concert).

[BBMmk2]

Ah yes, the Cornish have their Male Voice Choir shindig! :)

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

All this is a little premature, as St George's day was the 23rd April in the Julian calendar, which means it should be celebrated on the 6th May, unless you're a member of the Greek or Russian Orthodox churches (although even if you are the 23rd April is still the 6th May)

B*gg*r!

[Nick Armstrong]

B*gg*r!

[ahinton]

B*gg*r's a wee village in the Pentlands; did ye nae ken?...

[doversoul1]

B*gg*r!

Calum‼ Is it really you? Great to see you back.

[P. G. Tipps]

B*gg*r's a wee village in the Pentlands; did ye nae ken?...

Never come across that B*gg*r before ...

I do know a B*gg*r which is a town in South Lanarkshire, with the Pentland Hills some miles away on the horizon.