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Spike
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Originally posted by Ye Olde Motherboarde:
1 MAY DAY!
Feast Day of St. Joseph (1st Century), revered as the patron saint of all workers.
According to my calendar, the feast day of St Joseph is March 19th
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14 Feast of St. Matthew the Apostle
St Matthew is actually celebrated on September 21st. May 14th is, however, the Feast of the Ascension.
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Uncle Pete
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March 19 is the feast of St Joseph, spouse of the BVM, or summat like that. May 1st is indeed the Feast of St Joseph the Worker (in another avatar of a working man/carpenter)
Same Joe though.
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Spike
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
March 19 is the feast of St Joseph, spouse of the BVM, or summat like that. May 1st is indeed the Feast of St Joseph the Worker (in another avatar of a working man/carpenter)
Same Joe though.
Ah OK. So he gets two feast days, just like Piglet gets two birthdays!
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I must remember to tell D. about that - more presents ... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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May 8 is also the birthday of Blessed Erin.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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June is brought to you by Spike, the Saints Coordination Committee, and the Birthday Lady.
June is National Dairy, Adopt a shelter Cat, Audio Book, Black Music, Camping, Cancer from the Sun, Celibacy Awareness, Child Vision Awareness, Dairy Alternative, Declare WAR on Alcoholism!,Effective Communication, Fireworks Safety, Fragile-X Awareness, Fruit and Veggies, GLBT Pride, Great Outdoors, Childhood Cancer, Lane Courtesy, Lemon and Mango, Perennial Garden, Turkey Lovers, Bathroom Reading, Iced Tea, Rivers, Rose, Safety, Scoliosis, Smile, Soul Food, Potty Training Awareness, Rebuild Your Life, Student safety, Turkey Lovers, Vision Research, World Naked Bike Ride, Women's Infertility, Zoo and Aquarium Month.
Well-Dressing, Derbyshire
1 DOUBLE BIRTHDAY!
***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CATRINE *****
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PEARL B-4 SWINE *****
Feast of St. Justin, martyr
Atlantic Hurricane Season begins in the US!
Stand for Children Day
Heimlich Maneuver Day
Say Something Nice Day
2 Western Australia Day
Feast of St. Erasmus
Bubba Day
National Running Day
Yell "Fudge" at Cobras Day
3 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACK THE LASS *****
National Running Day
3-14 Sydney Film Festival (NSW)
5 Feast of St. Boniface, Archbishop of Canterbury
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Cancer Survivor’s Day
Headache Awareness Week
Scandanavian Evangelical Lutheran Augsburg Synod in North America founded
World Environment Day
5-7 America’s Cup Yacht Race (first event)
6 D-DAY, Normandy!
Apodosis of the Feast of the Holy Ascension (Orthodox)
Queen’s Birthday (AUS)
Belmont Stakes Horse Race, US
St. Norbert
National Day (Sweden)
Cake Day
7 Feast of Corpus Christi
Charles Spurgeon preached his last sermon in 1891
Cancer Survivor's Day
Cairns Airport IRONMAN Contest (QLND)
7-13 Jim Thorpe Native American Games
Headache Awareness Week
8 Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Best Friends Day
World Ocean's Day
9 TRIPLE BIRTHDAY!
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PANTS*****
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BASSO*****
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNY ANN*****
Feast of St. Columba, missionary to Scotland and Northern England, founder of Iona
10 United Church of Canada formed in 1925
Presbyterian Church formed in US, 1893
National Iced Tea Day
11 Feast of Barnabas the Apostle
National Cotton Candy Day
12 Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Superman Day http://www.newsarama.com/17874-june-12-is-man-of-steel-day-free-superman-comics.html
![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) LOVING DAY www.lovingday.org
12-22 Dark Mofo (TAS) www.darkmofo.net.au
13 Feast of St. Antony of Padua, Patron of Portugal, the harvest, poor, spinsters invoked against infertility and those looking for lost objects
Abused Women and Children Awareness Day
Trooping of the Color, Queen’s Birthday http://www.trooping-the-colour.co.uk
World GIN DAY! (for shipmates who love it)
World BIKE NAKED! Day ???
World against Child Labor Day
13-21 Worldwide Knit and Crochet in Public Week
14 TRIPLE BIRTHDAY!
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMAZING GRACE*****
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SCROEDINGER'S CAT *****
*****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARISTON *****
Flag Day (US)
US Army's Birthday
World Blood Donor Day
Family History Day
15 Magna Carta Day
WORLDWIDE DAY OF GIVING www.yearofgiving.org
National Day of prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
15-21 US Open Golf Championship
16 Feast of Richard of Chichester, bishop
17 Birth of John Wesley in 1703
TAMMUZ - The 17th Day of Tammuz, Jewish feast of mourning for the destruction of Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
EAT YOUR VEGETABLES Day!
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
18 International Sushi Day
19 Council of Nicea closes in 325
Work @ Home Father’s Day
World Sauntering Day
‘Juneteenth’ (US) (Liberation of slaves day)
19-21 V8 Supercars (NT) Darwin,
20 National Flip Flop Day
21 THE SUMMER SOLSTICE Welcome, Summer! at 6:51 AM
Father’s Day (US and UK)
Dia del Padre (Mexico)
National Daylight Appreciation Day
World Music Day
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron of Youth
22 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TREE BEE *****
Feast of St. Alban, first British martyr in 209
Feast of John Fisher, bishop
Feast of Thomas More, martyr
Feast of San Acacio, invoked against headaches
"It's a Stupid Guy Thing" Day
23 Feast of Etheldreda, abbess
Feast of San Juan Bautista, patron of auto routes, candlemakers, farriers, health spas, workers in leather and wool.
First Methodist conference begins, 1744
United Church of Christ formed in 1865
Commemoration of the Augsburg Confession 479 years ago
International Widow’s Day
Pink Flamingos Day (as lawn ornaments) day
24 St. Jean-Baptiste Day (CA and Quebec)
International Fairy Day or Faerie Day http://www.faemagazine.com/international-faerie-day/
25 Global Beatles Day http://globalbeatlesday.com/globalbeatlesday/Global_Beatles_Day.html
Take your PET to work day
26 UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Take your dog to work Day
27 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TALIESIN *****
National HIV Testing Day
Birthday of Helen Keller
Great American Camp Out Day
28 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NANNY OGG *****
Lutheran Church in US is formed, 1962
Feast of St. Ireaneus, bishop
Great American Backyard Campout Day
Take your CHILD to work day
Paul Bunyan Day
29 Feast of San Pedro, patron of boat builders, clockmakers, fisherman, invoked against fever, foot trouble and wolves. Gatekeeper of heaven
Feast of St. Peter and Paul
Please take MY children to work day!
Library Advocacy Day
30 Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day
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Uncle Pete
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Regiments troop the Colour; Trooping of the Colour is a refusal to consider that troop is also a verb.
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Spike
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There's no such thing as Trooping of the Colour. The correct name is Trooping the Colour. There's no "of" in the name. I'm sure I've pointed this out before.
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Pigwidgeon
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Today's the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day...
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basso
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Happy birthday to my fellow celebrants today. Hope you both had a beautiful one.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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JULY is brought to you by the Birthday Lady, Spike, the Saints Coordinating Committee and Brownielocks.com
JULY is Air Conditioning Appreciation, Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness, Blueberries, Cell Phone Courtesy, Cord Blood Awareness, Dog Days, Freedom from Fear of Speaking, Family Reunion, Garlic, Hotdog, Herbal and Prescription Awareness, Juvenile Arthritis, Women with Alopecia, Child-Centered Divorce, Grilling, ICE CREAM!!!, Horseradish, Hot Dog, Mango and Melon, Make a Difference to Children, National Park and Recreation, Social Wellness, Share a Sunset with your Lover, Tour de France, Worldwide bereaved parents, Women’s Motorcycle Month.
Well-Dressing Continues in Britain until September
July Weather Lore
“If the first of July it be rainy weather
“Twill rain more or less for four weeks together”
1 Canada Day
Feast of John and Henry Venn, priests
Second Half of the Year Day
Feast of Oliver Plunkett, bishop and martyr
Princess Diana's birthday
Postal Worker Day
999 Emergency service introduced in Britain in 1937
Registration of births, marriages and deaths begin in Britain 1837
2 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CURIOUS *****
Robe of the Theotokos, (Orthodox)
World UFO Day
I forgot Day
International Chicken Wing Day
3 Feast of Thomas the Apostle, Patron of Architects, builders, construction workers, carpenters, geometricians, masons. Invoked against blindness and doubt.
Stay out of the sun day!
3-5 UFO Festival, Roswell, New Mexico http://www.ufofestivalroswell.com
4 Independence Day, Fourth of July (US)
Collect for Independence Day and Prayer for the Nation
Lord God Almighty, in whose Name the founders of this country won liberty for themselves and for us, and lit the torch of freedom for nations then unborn: Grant that we and all the people of this land may have grace to maintain our liberties in righteousness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Lord God Almighty, you have made all the peoples of the earth for your glory, to serve you in freedom and in peace: Give to the people of our country a zeal for justice and the strength of forbearance, that we may use our liberty in accordance with your gracious will; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. AMEN
Independence day from MEAT day?
Feast of Our Lady of Refuge
National Barbeque Day
5 First Day of NAIDOC Week (Australia)
6 INTERNATIONAL KISSING DAY !
Earth at Aphelion at 8 PM
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar
Feast of John Fisher, bishop, martyr
Tynwald Day, Isle of Man
Take your Webmaster to lunch day
7 Global Forgiveness Day http://www.ceca.cc/global_forgiveness_day/
Chocolate Day
Father-Daughter take a walk together day
Tell the Truth Day!
8 International Town Criers Day
10 Pina Colada Day
Don't step on a bee day
Teddy Bear’s Picnic Day
10-12 TAOS Pueblo Pow-Wow and Dances, Taos, New Mexico
11 Feast of St. Benedict of Mercia, Abbot and patron of Europe, Architects, the dying, farm workers, monks and servants.Invoked against gallstones, poison and witchcraft.
Swimming Pool Day
Cheer up the Lonely Day
“Slurpee” Day/7-11’s Birthday http://freebies.about.com/od/freefood/p/free-slurpee-day.htm
12 Feast of Saint Veronica, patroness of launderesses
Battle of the Boyne, Northern Ireland
13 Embrace your GEEKINESS Day!
Orange Men’s Day, Northern Ireland
National French Fries Day
Gruntled Workers Day (as opposed to DIS-gruntled?)
First Live Aid Concert, 1985
14 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VIOLA*****
Feast of Camio de Lelis. Patron of hospitals, nurses and the sick, invoked against gambling.
Fête de la Bastille (France)
Feast of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, first Native American saint
Chick-fil-A’s Cow Appreciation Day ( dress like a cow and get a free sandwich)
14-18 Swan-Upping, Thames River
15 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHIVE*****
Feast of St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
"St. Swithun’s Day, if thou dost rain, for 40 days it will remain,
St. Swithun’s Day, is thou be fair, for 40 days ‘twill rain nae mair”
National ICE CREAM! day
Don't be a Dork Day
Global Hug your Kid Day
16 Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, patroness of the souls in Purgatory
Feast of St. Osmund, bishop
17 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALUTE TO ANCIENT MARINER***** ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
18 Feast of Elizabeth, First Deaconess of the Church of England, founder of the Community of St. Andrew, 1883
International Nelson Mandela Day
National Hot Dog Day
19 Sunday of the Holy Fathers (Orthodox)
Feast of St, Gregory of Nyssa, bishop
Feast of St. Macrina, deaconess
19-20 Celebration of the Horse Day
20 Margaret of Antioch, Martyr, 4 Century
Feast of Batholome de las Casas, missionary
Moon Day
21 THE FEAST OF THE BELOVED ST. SIMEON! the Patron Saint of the Ship of Fools
Feast of St. Librada, Patroness of liberated women, invoked against men. Crucified by her father for not marrying his choice of suitors
Euston Railway Station opened in 1837
22 Feast of Mary Magdalene, Patroness of contemplatives, fallen women, glovers, hairdressers and perfumers. Much maligned women, but defended by Christ and witnessed to his resurrection
Casual PI Day (22/7)
Spooners or Spoonerism Day
Gorgeous Grandmothers Day (like me, of course!)
Hot enough for you ? Day
23 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALAN CRESSWELL ******
Feast of St. Bridget, Patroness of Europe
Batman Day http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2014/04/29/dc-entertainment-declares-july-23-batman-day
24 Cousins Day
25 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ST. GWLADYS *****
Feast of St. Christopher’s, Patron Saint of Travelers
Feast of James the Apostle. St. James’ Day/Grotto Day
”Please remember the Grotto - it’s only once a year
Father’s gone to sea, Mother’s gone to bring him back, so please remember me”
Feast of San Cristobal, Patron of bachelors, bus drivers, ferry pilots, horsemen, police officers, truck drivers and especially travelers. Invoked against nightmares, water perils, plague, sudden death and tempests.
Feast of Santiago de Compostela. Patron of Guatemala, Spain, Nicaragua, veterinarians, horsemen laborers, furriers, soldiers. Invoked against arthritis, rheumatism
Whitstable Oyster Festival, Whitstable, Kent
China Inland Missionary (OMF) founded by J. Hudson Taylor in 1865
26 PARENT’S DAY!
Tish B’Av A day commemorating the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people.
Feast of Anne and Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Combined with this feast is the Feast of Santa Ana, Patroness of housewives, grandmothers and cabinetmakers, Grandmother of Jesus
National Day of the Cowboy http://nationaldayofthecowboy.com/wordpress/
27 Korean War Veterans Armistice Day
Take your houseplants for a walk day
28 Aunties Day
World Hepatitis Day
29 Feast of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, companions of the Lord
Lasagna Day
National Chicken Wing Day
30 *****HAPPY "FOREVER 21" BIRTHDAY, SEASICK*****
Feast of William Wilberforce, social reformer, 1833
International Friendship Day
FATHER-IN-LAW DAY
Cheesecake Day
31 Forefeast of the Holy Cross (Orthodox)
Feast of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, society of Jesus, Patron of the military and of religious retreats. Invoked against being overly conscientious.
Feast of San Juan Diego, an Aztec native who saw 4 apparitions of Mary on Tepeyac Hill, Mexico
National Chili Dog Day
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I see it is Debbie Harry's 70th birthday. That's just wrong (and I suppose we should really call her Deborah now) and while she has aged, she has done so very well.
If people are fortunate and look after themselves, seventy must be the new fifty. My s-i-l is similar, which must bring some joy to my brother who has Parkinson's.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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I so agree with you, Sioni Sans.
70 is the new fifty!
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Eid mubarak!
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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AUGUST is brought to you by brought to you by Spike, the Saints Coordination Committee and the Birthday Lady.
August is American Adventures, American Indian Heritage, Cataract Awareness, Catfish, Children’s Eye Health, Goat Cheese, Golf, Get Ready for Kindergarden, Immunization Awareness, Panini, Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness, Panini, Read a Romance Novel, Truancy Prevention, National truancy, Water Quality, Orange, Papaya, What will be your legacy Month, Win with Civility Month
August - Reading Festival
August-Glenn Miller Festival
August and September-Edinburgh International Festival
1 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROWEN*****
Feast of St. Alphonsus
Commemoration of Mary de Liquori
Feast of St Oswald, King of Northumbria, martyr, 64
Lammas Day / Loaf Mass
Yorkshire Day
Lughnasadh/Lughnasa, beginning of Harvest Season, one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals; along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane
Creation Festival-US, Agape Farm, Mt. Union, PA, Tri-Cities, WA (USA)
India Pale Ale Beer Day www.craftbeer.com
Air Force Day
In 1774, Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen
1-2 “Testy Festival” Montana Testicle Festival, Clinton, Montana
1-7 Creation Fest UK, Royal Cornwall Showground in Wadebridge, Cornwall
1-8 EISTEDDFOD! Denbighshire and District, Wales
Simplify your life week
2 Feast of St Eusebius of Vermicelli
Sister’s Day
Friendship Day http://www.friendship.com.au/friendday.html
3 New South Wales Bank Holiday (NSW, AUS)
Northern Territory Picnic Day (AUS)
Heritage Day in Alberta, Canada (CAN)
Civic/Provincial Day (MB, NT, ON, SK, CAN)
New Brunswick Day (New Brunswick, CAN)
British Columbia Day (British Columbia, CAN)
Natal Day (Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, CAN)
Clown Day
3-9 Sturgis, ND Motorcycle Rally
4 Feast of St. John Vianney
The First World War began-1914-1918
National Night out
Single Working Woman’s Day
National Chocolate Chip Day
Coast Guard Day
Social Security Day
Feast of St. Oswald, martyr
5 The Royal St. John’s Regatta (Newfoundland,Labrador, CAN)
Friendship Day
5-8 Gallup, NM. International Tribal Pow-Wow
6 Feast of the Transfiguration (Orthodox)
Hiroshima Day
Pamper Yourself Day
7 Feast of St Sixtus, Pope
Feast of St Cajetan, Patron of gamblers
Commemoration of John Mason Neale, hymn writer
INTERNATIONAL BEER DAY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Beer_Day
7-9 Twins Day twinsday.org in Twinsburg, Ohio
7-31 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
8 Feast of St Dominic, priest and friar, founder of the order of preachers, Patron of astronomers.
Feast of St Denys
Feast of Teresa Benedict of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin, martyr, patron of Europe
Death of Thomas a Kempis, Dutch mystic and author, 1471
DALEK DAY - (Terry Nation’s birthday, who invented the Daleks) On Dalek Day, we will talk like Daleks, quote Daleks and reference them whenever we get the chance our of respect for Terry Nation, who created the Daleks and died today.
www.sliceofscifi.com/2013/07/09Dalek-day-2013
Feast of Mary Sumner, founder of the Mother's Union, 1921
Happiness Happens Day :smiley:
National CAT DAY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cat_Day
International Hangover Day (always follows International Beer Day)
8-16 Kettlewell Scarecrow Festival info@kettlewellscarecrowfestival.co.uk
9 International Day of the World’s Indigineous People
10 Feast of St Laurence (Lorenzo), Patron of Cooks. librarians and the poor. Martyred because he disobeyed an order to collect treasures for church, then instead gave it to the poor, saying “these are the church’s treasures”.
S’Mores Day www.candyusa.com
Skyscraper Appreciation Day
Smithsonian Day, Smithsonian Museums, Washington, DC
National DURANDURAN Appreciation Day (just for you, PataLeBon)
International Day of World’s Indigenous People
11 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAURATG****
Feast of St Clare, virgin, friend of St Francis of Assisi, Patroness of television, embroiderers and media employees, invoked against sore eyes.
Commemoration of John Henry Newman, priest, 1890
10-16 ELVIS WEEK! Memphis, Tennessee www.elvis.com
12 DOUBLE BIRTHDAY!
***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUGASAW *****
***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PataLeBon *****
Commemoration of Florence Nightingale, nurse and social reformer, 1910
Royal National Agricultural Show Day, Queensland (AUS)
Thank You Day
Formation of the first Moravian community, 1727
IBM PC Day
13 International Left Handers Day www.left-handersday.com
14 Feast of Maxmilian Kolbe, Patron of drug addicts, invoked against drug addiction
National Navajo Code Talkers Day, US
15 ASSUMPTION THE VIRGIN MARY
VJ Day - World War II ends in 1945
Feast of St Stephen of Hungary
Best Friends Day
16 Feast of the Holy Mandylion of Christ Not Made by Hand (Orthodox) Feast of St Ethelred
National Rollercoaster Day
17 Feast of San Roque, Patron of cattle, doctors, dog lovers and prisoners, invoked against cholera, contagious diseases, skin disease and the plague
Formation of the Christian Association of Washington (Pennsylvania), which later became the Disciples of Christ, the Christian Churches and the Churches of Christ
Discovery Day, (Yukon, CAN)
18 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DJ_ORDINAIRE *****
Feast of St. Helen, patroness of archeologists
John Bunyan, Puritan preacher, 69, preached his first sermon in 1688
Bad Poetry Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
19 Feast of St Eudes
Feast of Bernard of Clairvaux
Feast of St Bernard, abbot and doctor
Formation of the Christian Union, which later became the Church of God, 1886
Aviation Day
Cupcake Day
20 *****HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOTHLORIEN*****
21 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NUNC DIMITTIS *****
SENIOR CITIZEN’S DAY http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/081988b.htm
Poets Day
Gold Cup Parade (Prince Edward Island, CAN)
22 Red Cross founded in Geneva
Battle of Bosworth, Henry VII defeated Richard III
Take your cat to the vet today!
National Punctuation Day
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Be an Angel Day
22-24 Reading Festival, Richfield Avenue
23 Feast of St Rose Of Lima,Patroness of Central and South America, florists, gardeners.
Feast of St Bartholemew, apostle
Feast of St Ebba
Feast of St Louis, King
Feast of St Joseph of Calasanz
Protestantism was formally adopted a the First General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1560
General Council of Nicea ended, 325
Formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa, which became the American Lutheran Church, 1854
International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade and its Abolition
Children's Day
24 St Bartholemew’s Bun Race (UK)
Bog Snorkelling Festival, Waen Rhydd Peat Bog, Wales
Wayzgoose Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayzgoose
Vesuvius Day (It erupted today)
Waffle Day
Pluto was Demoted as a Planet Day
25 ***** HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHASTMASTR *****
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DAY (US) Go to a Park and Enjoy our Parks!
25-26 Notting Hill Carnival, London
26 Late Summer Bank Holiday
National Toilet Paper Day http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110826005103/en/Charmin-Breaks-GUINNESS-WORLD-RECORD®-National-Toilet#.VbkRbXjBFFJ
Woman's Equality Day
National Dog Day http://www.nationaldogday.com
27 Feast of St Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387
The Gipsy Moth IV with Frances Chichester leaves Plymouth in 1966
28 Feast of St Augustine of Hippo, Patron of brewers and printers.
National Race your Mouse across the Icon's Day
29 Eat more herbs, USE LESS SALT day!
Commemoration of John Bunyan, teacher, 1688
29-31 England’s Medieval Festival at Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex
29-30 International Bat Night
30 Beheading of St John the Baptist (Orthodox)
Forefeast of the Holy Cross (Orthodox)
Feast of Margaret Clitherow, Anne Link and Margaret Ward, virgins and martyrs
Bog Snorkelling Championships, Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales
International Whale Shark Day http://cancun.travel/en/2010/08/23/cancun-celebrates-international-whale-shark-day-for-the-third-consecutive-year/
30-31 Faversham International Hop Festival, Faversham, Kent http://www.favershamhopfestival.org
NATIONAL GRIEF AWARENESS DAY
31 The untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales in France, 1997 (18 years!!!) ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
Feast of San Ramon Nonato, Patron of Catalonia, childbirth, children, midwives, obstetricians and pregnant women invoked against false accusations.
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Lothlorien
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Motherboarde, the 3rd August has not been bank holiday in NSW for many years, nor any other date. We do not have official bank holiday here. Your source is out of date.
Many years ago, the Labor Premier of the state abolished bank holiday. There was a huge outcry from public servants who were about the only non bank employees to benefit from the holiday. Other employees in shops etc and other businesses did not get it. It was then surreptitiously added to the raft of public holidays around Christmas. They can still claim the day, but it is not bank holiday.
With advent of cards and ATMs, who needs to visit the bank? Very few cheques are written, cashed or deposited down here in comparison with card and machine use.
Your source is very much out of date.
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Rowen is having a lovely day!
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The Reading Festival takes place during the August Bank Holiday weekend, so this year is 28th - 30th. You seem to have last year's dates here.
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Well, I work for a bank in NSW and we have Monday off.
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It also says at the top, "AUGUST is brought to you by brought to you by..."
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Who is LauraTG? Suspect she had a name change eons ago.
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Ariel
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Actually the International Whale Shark Day link seems to refer to 2010. Sorry.
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Spike
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
Who is LauraTG? Suspect she had a name change eons ago.
Yes, and I've pointed this out several times. Not only that, but she hasn't posted in eons.
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Ditto to Notting Hill Carnival which is August 30th and 31st 2015 - the Bank Holiday weekend
No Greenbelt either.
And August Bank Holiday this year is 31st, not 26th
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Kittyville:
Well, I work for a bank in NSW and we have Monday off.
Kittyville, it used to be a big holiday here, not just bank employees. Civil service, many legal people and anyone else who could wangle it. That is what changed.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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I check Time and Date, Project Britain, and 4 other places for dates and times for every continent and country and I still get it wrong! DAMN, DAMN, DAMN.
Anyone want to volunteer for Australia and New Zealand dates, because obviously, I got it all wrong.
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The times are a'changing and we all have to move on.
This will be the last few days for this thread, but as I said, new things are coming, so watch All Saints for a new thread.
and hugs, Motherboard
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Thanks, Sweetie,
and hugs,
Motherboarde
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I'll second what Loth said - you've put in a heck of a lot of work over the years, MB! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I agree wholeheartedly - thanks YOMB, you're a star!
[edited because I seem to have problems recently with three letter words!]
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Thank you for all the work you've put in, Motherboarde.
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Amen to all that.
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Yes, indeed! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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To dear Mamacita and JediJudy, ,Lamb Chopped, Welease and Piglet.
Thank you for all your kind words, I am so touched.
and hugs, MB
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