Happy Victoria Day

I think Sir will find that the day Sir is celebrating is not the one
celebrated variously as Victoria and Canada Day on the Monday prior to may
24th in the former colony known as Canada which this year falls upon the
23rd but May 24th itself which is tomorrow.

 

Gentlemen, the Queen. [raises glass]

SQ

 

Point taken, but it is the spirit (in particular the drinkable kind)
that counts.

BTW "Canada Day" is July 1, the anniversary of the British North
America Act of 1867 that created the Dominion of Canada.

A mari usque ad mare.

SQ

 

You didn't celebrate Empire Day on May 24th when you were a kid?
Or had it morphed into Commonwealth Day by then? Or worse yet your
homogenised "No more sheep-dog" Days?

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Still do mate, still do. And if I had a flag pole my little Union Flag
what I am currently waving at the screen would be proudly hung from that
today.

 

Only cos it's yer birthday, you old git.

 

You Commonwealth types need to understand how Britain views the
Commonwealth.

A bit like a distant cousin: you know they're there, and you know you
have to send a Xmas card or there'll be ructions, and you feel obliged
to turn up for big weddings, and similar, but the rest of the time you
forget all about them.

 

only cos its your birthday IIRC.
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1958 Empire Day changed to Commonwealth Day. Are you really that
young, for one so grey?

Since 1976 it's been the second Monday in March.

All according to Wikipedia...

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We hung the Hammer and Sickle over the cadet-hut one Empire Day around 1957

 

That is as maybe but it is still Empire Day for me.

Although in these slightly more enlightened times I might have to concede
to Commonwealth of English Speaking Peoples Day which really doesn't trip
off the tongue so easily.

 

You Pommy blokes need to understand how Commonwealth types
view Brits who say stuff like the above!

ps. She's our bloomin' Queen too, y'know!!

SQ

 

She's all yours. When can you collect?

 

Any time. Naturally we shall also want Buckingham Palace,
Windsor Castle, Westminster Cathedral, the Palace of Holyroodhouse,
the Tower of London, Balmoral Castle, the bells of St. Clement's
and the corgis.

Uh... on 2nd thought, not the corgis.

The Aussies can have Caernarfon Castle. So they can move it
to New South Wales. (I know Caernarfon is in Old North Wales,
but everything is topsy-turvy Down Under).

ps. We get Bill & Kate, too.

SQ

 

Sure, if you take the rest of her family too.

Thus leaving us with Pippa. Result!