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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ippy on May 29, 2017, 02:22:23 PM

Title: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: ippy on May 29, 2017, 02:22:23 PM
I note it's 'Oak Apple Day' today the 29th, Charlie hid up an oak tree to escape capture from the Roundheads and some actually celebrated this escape of his.

Any pub called 'The Royal Oak' is named after this event, I wonder why it's not celebrated any more, aren't we supposed to wear an Oak leaf somewhere on our person in recognition of this event?   

ippy
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: floo on May 29, 2017, 02:30:47 PM
I note it's 'Oak Apple Day' today the 29th, Charlie hid up an oak tree to escape capture from the Roundheads and some actually celebrated this escape of his.

Any pub called 'The Royal Oak' is named after this event, I wonder why it's not celebrated any more, aren't we supposed to wear an Oak leaf somewhere on our person in recognition of this event?   

ippy

Oak Apple Day, goodness me I haven't heard that term for years. It used to be mentioned when I was a child.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 29, 2017, 03:45:31 PM
FYI Robin Oakapple the name of a character in Ruddigore.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: floo on May 29, 2017, 03:48:36 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Anchorman on May 29, 2017, 06:36:22 PM
I note it's 'Oak Apple Day' today the 29th, Charlie hid up an oak tree to escape capture from the Roundheads and some actually celebrated this escape of his.

Any pub called 'The Royal Oak' is named after this event, I wonder why it's not celebrated any more, aren't we supposed to wear an Oak leaf somewhere on our person in recognition of this event?   

ippy





In the South West of Scotland, Chairlie Stuart and his brother James VII are villified as originators of the 'Killing Time'.
Nothing to celebrate.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: ippy on May 29, 2017, 07:08:39 PM




In the South West of Scotland, Chairlie Stuart and his brother James VII are villified as originators of the 'Killing Time'.
Nothing to celebrate.

No, there's not much credit due to us for how us English have treated the Scots in the past, I only mentioned the day as one of those obscure days that used to be celebrated; not by me you can stuff the very idea of royals wherever you like.

ippy
 
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 29, 2017, 07:17:04 PM
No, there's not much credit due to us for how us English have treated the Scots in the past, I only mentioned the day as one of those obscure days that used to be celebrated; not by me you can stuff the very idea of royals wherever you like.

ippy
It's also National Biscuit Day, so you can celebrate that.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Rhiannon on May 29, 2017, 07:23:23 PM
With a Bourbon, presumably. That would make for a lot of Happy Faces.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 29, 2017, 07:28:45 PM
And would be Nice, even if his revolutionary opponents might prefer a Garibaldi.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Gordon on May 29, 2017, 07:32:36 PM
With a Bourbon, presumably. That would make for a lot of Happy Faces.

Which would encourage the hob-nobbing no end.
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 29, 2017, 08:59:16 PM
You lot are crackers.  :o
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 29, 2017, 09:02:03 PM
Oreo we're not!
Title: Re: 'Oak Apple Day'
Post by: Anchorman on May 29, 2017, 09:39:53 PM
No, there's not much credit due to us for how us English have treated the Scots in the past, I only mentioned the day as one of those obscure days that used to be celebrated; not by me you can stuff the very idea of royals wherever you like. ippy
Unfortunately, neither Chairlie nor Jamie were English. Never mind - it's time for a Breakaway.