Happy Saint George's Day

Happy Saint George's Day to all our English readers wherever you may be.

St. George's Day - Cairo 1942

Here's some nice footage for Saint George's Day, from the ever reliable British Pathé, of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers celebrating the day in Cairo in 1942. They stick a rose in their cap and have a good old march to the local church in their tropical uniforms.

Paul Weller - English Rose

The Tudor Rose, the floral emblem of England, and a symbol of an England at peace. Paul Weller would use this symbol for his romantic folk ballad, English Rose, which finds him at his most poetic in a sort of companion piece to Wordsworth's I Travelled Among Unknown Men.