OK .. I know, most English people ‘don’t do’ Saint George’s Day.
However, this year I am flying the flag to celebrate that good old dragon slaying saint, who is believed to have been born in Turkey and served in the Roman Army in the third century ‘AD’ or ‘CE’ if you are ‘PC’.
Old Georgie must have got around quite a bit as he finished up being the patron saint of not only England, but also of Georgia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Kumanovo, Ljubljana, Pomorie, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow, the Maltese island of Gozo and Gawd knows where else.
I must admit that I am a bit puzzled as to how he became ‘English’ as there was no such place as England back then, but then, and unlike in Westeros, there weren’t any …
… bloody dragons either !
bigjohn 
