Archive for November, 2008
St. Andrew’s Day: Scotland
30th. of November: St Andrew’s day
St. Andrew’s Societies, Scottish heritage groups, celebrate this day all over the world. Evenings, pipers will march escorting a cook carrying a haggis on a silver platter, in their midst to present Scotland’s most famous dish to a President or Chief of the Banquet. The haggis will be split open [...]
Armistice Day, in memory of veterans of all wars
Had he been alive, this past weekend my father, Frank Knight, would have been joining his fellow veterans at the Cenotaph on Whitehall, London in the annual parade. He left his squadron as Flight Lieutenant, when it was disbanded - I’ve always suspected that he would have preferred to continue in the RAF [...]
