St. David's Day

[cbtreks]

- is nearly two months past. I've been thinking about it because debris4spike posted about St. George's Day recently and we got into a conversation about it and St. David's Day and St. Piran's Day in the comments. She asked if I celebrated the other two and I mentioned that I celebrated St. David's Day quietly on my own. I don't really want to wear a leek and

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[curiouswombat]

I like your daffodil :)

We don't celebrate a saint's day - although we do have a patron saint. We have Tynwald Day instead. If we did celebrate our patron saint, St Maughold's Day is April 25th so we would just have had it :)

[cbtreks]

Thank you! I think that was a patter I found on line and I stitched it onto perforated paper then put a pin back on it.

Is Tynwald Day in early July? I remember mentioning it in the past and that it's near - but not on - July 4.

If St. Maughold's Day was an actual celebration day, what would people eat and drink? (Planning my all UK menu for next spring. :-)

Well, I'm laughing but that does sound kind of fun now I think about it. Bara brith, pasties a few days later, maybe colcannon several days after that, then beef and Yorkshire pudding on April 23?

[enigmaticblues]

My grandma was half-Welsh, and her mom and sisters all came over, and they all spoke Welsh, but refused to teach anybody the language so they could gossip in peace. I've been learning Welsh on Duolingo, though, and it's been fun!

[cbtreks]

Did you ever get to hear your grandma and great-aunts speak Welsh? My grandmother would be 122 if she were alive today and I imagine neither she nor her siblings spoke it. I don't suppose her dad did, either, since he grew up in Shropshire, England (which has a large Welsh community) and I think Welsh was out of favor even in Wales in the 19th century.

I've played around with Duolingo a bit but never realized they have Welsh. I'll check that out.

[cbtreks]

(Looks like I misread your first sentence and you did get to hear them speaking Welsh. Does that help with you learning it now?)

[enigmaticblues]

I didn't ever get to hear them speaking Welsh, but my grandma picked up a few phrases. I have no idea how accurate they are, since she didn't ever speak the language, but she passed the stories down. In one, my great-grandma ran into someone she knew from church that she absolutely hated. So she said something in Welsh that could be translated as "kiss my ass" in the sweetest tone possible. Now, I have no idea if that's what was actually said, but that seemed to fit nain to a t.