Happy Yorkshire Day

A Very Happy Yorkshire Day to all BraziBays in God's Own County and those exiled elsewhere.  

Cheers Geoff - same to you:





NB Other Counties are available (apparently, although why, I've got no idea!) - feel free to celebrate your own County days  

Thanks Geoff,...... was enjoying the vid until Brian Blessed chipped in with the rap-style translation for non Tykes.

You qualify though don't you John?

Absinthe wrote:

NB Other Counties are available (apparently, although why, I've got no idea!) - feel free to celebrate your own County days  

This is the one for my 'adopted' county of Wiltshire, depicting a Bustard.........I can only assume whoever commissioned it made a typo error, ................only jesting, to any Moonrakers.

Absinthe wrote:

You qualify though don't you John?

Yep, only just though.

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Yep, only just though.

No such thing as "only just" - you're in or you're not!*


* says the (other) boy from the Boro!

That's why I treasured my birth certificate, even though I left at 6 months old,..............just in case I managed to excel at cricket,...........which I didn't.  

The annoying thing for me (and, I suspect, my late Dad, who spent hours with me as a kid, playing in front of our garage doors) was that I was pretty good at cricket - captained the team at Junior school, opened the batting and bowling at Grammar school, played evening league standard in the Boro - but I wasn't hungry enough nor confident enough to take it as far as I could. Life has to contain some regrets I guess.

I did pass my love of the game onto my nephews who both played to NYSD standard and one of whom had a trial for Yorkshire although wasn't deemed quite good enough.

I'll try harder in my next life (if only!)

With that record Martin, perhaps the Aquas should challenge the Airs to a cricket match at Sleepover 2014. ....... we may have a chance at winning something!  

They'd probably make us have 6 stumps at each end, John, whilst they had just one and a bat 3' wide!

dizzylizard wrote:

This is the one for my 'adopted' county of Wiltshire, depicting a Bustard.........I can only assume whoever commissioned it made a typo error, ................only jesting, to any Moonrakers.

I hate that flag of Wiltshire and refused to buy one when I got the pole and lights combo at CJ last year.

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I hate that flag of Wiltshire and refused to buy one when I got the pole and lights combo at CJ last year.

I remember someone flying one (Lulu?) and I wondered which country it was from - I spent some time trying to track it down without success. Looks like the flag of a small Central American state! It's to be hoped that all those Great bustards on Salisbury Plain survive or it'll look very silly.

There's a website here listing all the County Flags:

County Flags

Looks like there is an alternative Wiltshire one.

Absinthe wrote:

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I hate that flag of Wiltshire and refused to buy one when I got the pole and lights combo at CJ last year.

I remember someone flying one (Lulu?) and I wondered which country it was from - I spent some time trying to track it down without success. Looks like the flag of a small Central American state! It's to be hoped that all those Great bustards on Salisbury Plain survive or it'll look very silly.

There's a website here listing all the County Flags:

County Flags

Think it looks silly now but get your point

Looks like there is an alternative Wiltshire one.

Handy link, thanks. I think I'll have Devon, as that's where my family is from, though perhaps Gloucestershire as well, as I have links there too. But definitely not Wiltshire, despite living there at the moment. Just have to track down a seller now.

Edit: Just realised that site sells them as well...

There's a shop on that site I think Chris - as a matter of interest which is your county of birth?

They don't seem to have much imagination in official circles down here.

I know we have only recently got electricity, but even the force motto derived itself from two well known camping stoves...........

Primus et Optimus.        

Absinthe wrote:

There's a shop on that site I think Chris - as a matter of interest which is your county of birth?

They don't do a flag for my county of birth, because it doesn't exist any more; County of the Isle of Ely. Certainly not having the flag of that into which it was amalgamated; looks like a clown's outfit.

Coat of Arms of Cambridgeshire:



Those Bustards look like they're following you Chris!

I see what you mean about the clown's costume:

Dizzylizard said "................only jesting, to any Moonrakers"

I'm a Moonraker from Slowit (Slaithwaite). Which means I was brought up very near to where that famous Yorkshireman Major Ivan Hirst was born and died.

osg

Which makes it even more strange that a Far Town bloke is a Stains fan. ;-)

And now I have my flag to fly....



or for when I'm feeling schitzophrenic...

Which ones are they Chris?

Absinthe wrote:

Which ones are they Chris?

First is Devon, which is where the family home was (before I sold it, haha, well death duties can do that) and the other is Gloucestershire, to which I also have a strong tie.