National days
By Anne18
@Anne18 (11029)
February 5, 2012 1:38pm CST
Next week is National apple Week, espically for Brambly (cooking) apples.
I was wondering how they make National days/weeks etc and where I could find a list of National Days /weeks for England.
I know some can be very funny and some weeks there are more than one as there are so many.
Have you a favoutie National Day?
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@celticeagle (169416)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Feb 12
Here is a link to a list of English Holidays:
http://holidaygirl.hubpages.com/hub/List-of-United-Kingdom-Holidays-and-Celebrations
There are some funny sounding ones.
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@Anne18 (11029)
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6 Feb 12
Wow, thanks, you always come up trumps for me..... I'm just too lazy to go and try and find out for myself!!!!!! LOL
You are right there are some very funny sounding ones, we are a strange bunch us English sometimes... or is it just me???
PC on very early today 6.30am, trying to keep track if the school is going ot be closed and the children can stay in bed...... at the mo the webpage is saying school is open which will not please the children, I'll have to go and make the pack ups soon and wake them up.
Also the BT (phone company) are coming between 8am and 3pm to upgrade the broadband , so it will go a lot faster. So pc on ready for that as well.
BUT..... I have put the tea in the slow cooker, Turkey legs in gravey, they will cook all day and the meat will fall off the bones when you take it out. Never roast turkey legs as the meat goes too tough and is very hard to get off the bones and you end up throwing most of it away. Two turkey legs cost me almost £4 and will feed the five of us for tea and we will have some left over.
Catch you later.... hope you have a very good day/night
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@celticeagle (169416)
• Boise, Idaho
8 Feb 12
Oh, I am sure it is all just you. Haha The turkey legs have a stickiness to them too when they are roasted. Ugh! Have a good day!
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@Humbug25 (12540)
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7 Feb 12
Hi Anne
We have apple day here in October and I would have thought that tied in with apple week or maybe it is just down here we are different hahaha. Around the 30th of October we have a special day and where we have our farmers market is all full of everything apples. Making apple cider, people making and selling apple juice, making stuff from apple tree branches etc. It's a lovely day. I would say that apple day is one of my favourite days, I am not a huge fan of raw apples but I do like apple juice, apple pie and apple crumble.
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@writersedge (22563)
• United States
6 Feb 12
I don't know how they do it there, but in the states, we have calendars tha t have those days on them. So maybe you can go online and find a calendar with them for England.
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@Anne18 (11029)
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6 Feb 12
Thanks, that is a very good idea, here in England we seem to have so many they don't always appear on the normal calendar... wouldn't be room to write anything on the calendar as it would be filled with all these special days. People have put some very good website addresses on here
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
9 Feb 12
I don't personally have a favorite national day, but I do think that some of them are quite interesting. For example, coming up at the beginning of March is Read Across America Day and I think that is neat because it does promote the importance of reading, which so many people tend to forget about.
Then there is also National Ice Cream Day (one that I really like because one of the local ice cream stores sells their really tasty ice cream for really cheap on this day.)
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@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
8 Feb 12
I used to not care so much about National days.
Up until Jimmy Kimmel introduced the National Unfriend Day, or NUD for short. If you haven't joined the bandwagon, it's the day we 'unfriend' annoying people on Facebook.
I think everyday should be NUD's!
I think everyday should be NUD's!
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
5 Feb 12
Anne 18:
For we Indians -- Independence Day on August 15 and Republic day on 26th January are national holidays. It is celebrated by having parades, awards giving etc.
India has a number of festivals --famous ones for different groups of people--minimum 20 in a year and they are synchronised with the season changes and festivals are celebrated on a grand scale in India.
Nowadays of course womens day Mach 8, Valentine day Feb 14 are quite popular.
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@telmesh (1793)
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6 Feb 12
Anne I don't know were you got this one from never mind how many others there are. I see celtic found a link for you so perhaps we can all have a list including womens day. Like the sound of turkey legs in gravy, but you can do that with most anything. I do it with left over chicken with mushrooms and onions, saves doing a stew. Yes you read right I said I do it, it's another of my talents, just a little cooking.
@Anne18 (11029)
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10 Feb 12
They were shop ones , had a pack of four in the freezer so that was one for hubby, one for big son and the two other children share one, one left, which means in about five weeks when I have brought more etc I shall four left in the freezer and it will be like a free meal for them. I think I had a baked potato either with fish or cheese on it.
Want to look good for you my friend!! wink wink, say no more!
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@Anne18 (11029)
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7 Feb 12
I read it somewhere, there are loads of natinal days. like national smile day, national be nice at work day etc. I sometimes wonder where they think up these ideas for natinal days.
Chicken pie for tea today... not home made.... well I didn't have chicken pie everyone else did
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@microengineer (587)
• Indonesia
5 Feb 12
I do not have particular favorite national day. But if I should choose, it will be independence day. Nothing special, but it is nice to have holiday that already fixed every years.
The apples looks like yummy. Have a nice day.
