SilkySifaka wrote:
Mummy_of_Peanut wrote:
No celebration in my house either. There aren't any here, that I've noticed. There will be some flags up, in certain parts (and I can guess exactly where I'll see them), but you really wouldn't know we were supposed to be celebrating anything. The extra public holiday is nice.
I know what you mean. I'm not used to seeing Union Jacks flying, except in certain areas, or outside certain pubs. Since I moved to England I've been trying to get used to it. Years ago I found myself in one of the Scottish Union-jack flying pubs (in West Lothian, I think) and I spent a lot of time worrying that someone would ask where I went to school because that would rather have given the game away that I was the wrong 'side'. I don't go in for 'sides', but I realise that other people do however foolish such a positions is.
Yes, asking me which school I went to says to others that I'm on the wrong side too. Bunting is flying outside the pubs I had thought of.
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