Today is Saint David’s day, or Dewi Sant, so greetings to you all everywhere. As you know I am not a person with nationalist sentiment, but a good excuse for a celebration is always fine with me. One of my cousins, she must be in her seventies now, wrote to remind me:
“Greetings to you all on Saint David’s Day. Cyfarchion a’r dydd Gwyl Dewi ein nawdd Sant.
I hope you are all well. My Daffodils are out in the garden and I will wear my Daffodil and enjoy leeks - not from my garden! I am having a holiday on 1 March and so are many others inspite of Mr. Blair, who will not grant us a holiday. We will soon wear him down as the demand for a Welsh National Holiday is getting stronger every year.”
So onwards and upwards to the coalition of the willing, that’s what I say!
Feed: A Fistful of Euros
March 1st, 2006 at 10:21 am
Can you really celebrate a Saint Day on Ash Wenesday ?
March 1st, 2006 at 10:47 am
“Can you really celebrate a Saint Day on Ash Wenesday ?”
Clashing calendars, or a shock of civilizations? We are, as you probably know, pre-Christian and druidic. Pagan I would say.