Battle of Boyne Day

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Okay, who got bored and decided to add just about every public holiday for at least the next two years on the calendar, and added the Battle of Boyne day ???? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
Neville,,,,, two steps forward,,,,, MARCH /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
I Have to say Dave i was more surprised than anyone to see it on there, I think i have been fitted up even before the supper.

But now that its in there I may as well arrange something around it.

BBQ on the sea wall at Fambridge ??????


Tradionally back home on the 11th there is a bonfire the night before then on the 12th is the marching your prob all seen on the news.

I do have my fathers sash /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
(he was an Orange man but jacked it in at the height of that period of disagreement we had there for a while)
so i can dust it off and wear it for to occaision prob has not seen the light of day in more than 30 years so might need more than a dusting off /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif.
 
Any excuse for a pissup is fine by me /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Only part of my uniform left is the buttons that used to be on my tunic, even the GSM has gone, though a Brit military uniform probably wouldn't be appropriate /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Only one other suspect springs to mind, but we shall see /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Yessssssssssssssssssssssssss ummmmmm I do have a suspect.

Any uniform is welcome mate a few beers and talk rubbish and tell stupid stories of a time some would like to forget but I am feel deff needs to be remembered.

Jesus nearly come over all emotional there (NOT)

Soooooo we will have a Irish celebration, in england, of a battle won in Eire, by an english king, who was actually dutch (william of orange hench orange men and orange being the dutch national color)

Diversity is alive and well and living in the ECF

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Can't argue with that /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
and as the saying goes, organise it and they will come /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
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Only if Nev confirms that it will be warmer than the last Fambridge BBQ /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Sorry, hope this wasn't a private conversation you were having /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Roger

That wasnt cold, us hardy northern folk didnt even notice the cold, mind you i was full of Whiskey and Beechams so not feeling a thing.

Was a very pleasent evening no matter what the temp was

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I was browsing through the calendar and may well, ahem, have switched on he UK national holiday thing. I thnk it is a jolly useful feature.
 
Yeh well I'm not a mud drinker so wouldn't know /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
And yes I know that comment is going to cost me a pint next time we meet /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
In all honesty I think an opportunity was missed when I was posted to NI back in 85, maybe I should have headed South and tried the place out properly, problem being they didn't like us much back then /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
""sure its old and it is beautifull and the colours thay are fine"

my daddy has an Orange sash too,at one time he was the second highest ranking orangeman in Scotland,at my dads funeral i took the highest ranking Orangeman to one side and had a strong word in his ear that i was not going to have the Union Jack and my dads sash on display as it would offend those RC,s who were present.Two Bus loads of the Bigots came to the funeral.

sixpence i thought that you had lost the plot entirely with that heading,then i remembered that you are welsh so ive forgiven you /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

artimist,i honestly thought that no one would have known about that stuff on the east coast /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
BJock

Surely you know us lot from the emerald isle have populated the world and built most of it. No way the east coast was going to escape.

I have found memories aas a young boy marching with my dad proud as punch. Funny how as you get older and understand more that these things get a little tarnished.

If you still have the sash perhaps you and I should do a re enactment on the day for all our east coast friends or perhaps set up an east coast lodge. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
art

i remembermarching through glasgow as a Juvenile member,i thought that it was great fun,especially the trips to the big parks,like you when i got a little older,i realised that it was not for me

New year was the best laugh,my moms side were green and dads side Orange,there was the odd fight but never over religion.

oh yeh he was a mason and a black too /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
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