Tradition is not about keeping the ashes,Quite.
but to pass on the matches.
A phrase that can be seen in a different light, though, when f.e. remembering what happened today 21 years ago in Drumcree.
Photo taken in what Republicans prefer to call Derry,and Loyalists Londonderry.
Well, today's brave "traditionalists" will have been marching again along kerbs being painted in the colours of the Union Jack, thus celebrating what they think was their - ha ha ha - 'glorious victory' once upon a time, 319 years ago.
I'd not be surprised would there already exist a comitee preparing the 400th anniversary in 2090.
Oh well, meanwhile I shall peel an orange.
There was an old joke:
ReplyDelete"This is you Captain speaking. We are now begining our final descent into Belfast Airport. Please esnure that you set your watches to 300 year behind Greenwich Mean Time"
Yes, it's absurd, Sean.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it would have been in the best for all as the House of Orange Nassau still ruled the UK, Ireland, and Scotland..))!
ReplyDeleteKindest
hans
That is such an honest comment about what tradition is about.
ReplyDeleteVery sad.:(
Jams,
ReplyDeletethe joke is certainly not as old as the tradition.
Oh, and ... is it a joke?
Welshcakes,
it is, ... but they wouldn't know ...
Hans,
... coming to think of Ernst-August of Hanover ... ... I agree. :)
Ardent,
let's plant apple trees, and ... orchids. :)