November 30, 2006

Happy St Andrew's Day

Today is our National Day, the day of our Patron Saint, St Andrew. I think traditionally St Andrew's Day has been celebrated more fiercely by the Scottish diaspora (in fact I'm cheating with this photo as it's the London office of Visit Scotland), but the Scottish Executive has pushed for greater celebrations of Scotland and Scottishness on St Andrew's Day. If there hadn't been 80mph winds in Edinburgh today, then I'm sure tonight's One Scotland Street Ceilidh would have been a big success, but I'm going to stay home instead. Have a wee whisky, tuck into some fine smoked salmon and think of the amazing contribution that such a wee country has made to the world.

5 comments:

Cheltenhamdailyphoto said...

Happy St. Andrews then! (for yesterday)

Jing said...

oh, too late to say happy st. andrews???
:))
recently i read the books about Celt.very interesting...:))

and before that, i like many tales from the british isles.

jing
shanghai daily photo

An Honest Man said...

Do the contributions include deep-fried mars bars? Irn Bru? Mince Pies? Haggis? .......

Sally said...

Och, aye!

Jean said...

Great photo even if it is not in Scotland.