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Yep its Yorkshire Day when we celebrate everything great about God's Own County from Hendo's to Whitby, rhubarb to Dickie Bird - well you get the idea.
Just to show a lack of bias, a happy national day to my second favourite place Switzerland who are lucky enough to share the day with Yorkshire!
Mads
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Rain
I have spent a fair amount of time in South Yorkshire and if it is in any way similar in Yorkshire proper, I bet they have gills there as well. I love England and all things British but bloody hell, you folks surely to get the rain. I guess that is why it is so green and lush there. If it were possible I would move to Sheffield in an instant. Life just doesn't always work the way we wish as well as the government hindrances. Now mind you if I was from the Middle East, I could probably have been there by now. Instead I'm trying to come from the USA, hmmmmm! aren't we supposed to be on the same side?
Anyhowww! Happy Yorkshire Day to you and yours
Dahlia
Sheffield
More hills than Rome, more Porsches than Stuttgart, more trees than a place full of trees, home to Hendo's relish, the Bessemer converter, 20,000 Chinese students and one Maddy Bell!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
July has been unseasonably dry
at least in Southern England, Isle of Wight only had 1.1mm for the whole month.
As a registered nurse I'd have thought they'd be happy to have you in England where there are regular shortages.
Angharad
Enjoy Your Day
We don't need our own 'day' in County Durham. We just look forward to the next time we beat you at cricket.
Good things about Yorkshire:
Whitby fish and chips, best enjoyed shivering on the quayside watching the seagull wars your discarded scraps* set off.
Christmas shopping in York. It always - and I mean always - turns into a day-long pub crawl.
The North York Moors (not to be confused with the Yorkshire Moors, where the Bronte novels were set). A place for true spiritual regeneration. Without doubt England's best-kept secret.
The Dry Dock in Leeds, a pub made out of a boat.
And the best football ground in the world.
But you'll still find the best Yorkshire puddings come from north of the Tees.
*scraps are crunchy bits of fried batter that reputable chip shops offer you as a free extra. At least that's what they're called in Hartlepool. I can't speak for Yorkshire, where they call cakes 'buns' for some reason.
call that a win
15 runs - we just ran out of Tetleys!
Did you know, at the last Olympics Yorkshire finished 5th in the medal table above countries like Germany!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Pudding or Terrier?
Have a great day!
naw, Happy BC Day.
and that isn't Big Closet. ;)
August 1 is the day British Columbia celebrates joining the Dominion of Canada.
3 other provinces also have a provincial holiday today.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
As a legal alien
Please don't think of that terrible song by Sting lol. First as an East Coast girl from the New England area I have to say I love the UK. My kids were all born here although I/we've been back and forth a few times since. We live in the South East in the county of Sussex close to the Kent and Surrey borders, so I'm told. I've been to Sheffield as my husband was at Sheffield University studying Computer science. The people I found were friendly on the whole but I could not understand a word some of them said. To be fair I'm not sure they understood my Boston accent either. My Father in law always mimics me and says Bawstawn accent he's pretty funny with it too. We visited the Peak district too there is some really awesome scenery up there I can't wait until we go back to Yorkshire again sometime soon.
'appen
we can let you off! Speaking as someone with ancestral connections to Surrey, Yorkshire, London, Worcester, South Wales, France, Sweden and Germany - and that's only the last couple of centuries, I can tell you that whilst I've lived here for most of my life I'm still a furrener! By comparison, the Bond's are much more integrated into their new community after barely two years! So what I'm saying is, we won't hold your origins against you!
Madeline Anafrid Bell