Whilst the sun shone down on Brindleyplace on 23rd April lunchtime passersby were witness to Birmingham’s very own St George slay the Broad Street Dragon* as part of the street’s celebrations for St George’s Day.

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As you may know, we have a Bostin St George tee, and with St George’s Day fast approaching on April 23rd, we thought we would combine this all with a World Cup competition.

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When I opened up the idea of naming the Black Country flag, one of the types of flag names I mentioned were those named after saints. It’ll be these types of names that I’ll look at in a bit more depth today. Read the rest of this entry »

Over several entries I’ve explained what is right about wanting a ‘county flag’ – i.e. the civic pride and the marketing factors that such a device so powerfully facilitates. However it is just as important to explain why it isn’t ‘wrong’ to have a county flag. Read the rest of this entry »

So we know April 23^rd is St. Georges day – the patron saint of England (and Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Genoa and Venice), famed for slaying a dragon (yep, a believable story that one) and was killed for refusing to fight against the invading Christians during the Holy war and consequently was made a saint.

Work that one out: He was Turkish (yep George was not his given name), he had never stepped foot on our great land we call Brittan, was killing dragons but not fellow Christians and was canonised by the pope, head of a religion that was not recognised by Henry VIII when he wanted to move along the conveyor belt of wives and yet George remained!

So England has St. George, Scotland St. Andrew (the golfer), Wales St David (the original herbalist) and Ireland has St. Guinness or was it Patrick the snake charmer (another believable story)?

Maybe we should look for a new Patron saint, St. Michael perhaps? I do like his underwear range, or just make it St. George Cadbury – Imagine hundreds of women marching through your local high street with their flags in one hand and bar of dairy milk in the other.

The 23^rd is also William Shakespeare’s birthday or Billy Waggledagger to the locals. He would have been 445, which would have put him in the Guinness book of records were he still alive……….

I’ve never found his work very easy to get along with, yes, he was a talented man, but so was Vincent Van Gogh and……..hold on…..I see a connection: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears“. Where was I? Oh yes, – talented -but does that mean you have to like it?

I remember many a boring lesson in school discussing meaning, hidden meaning and the literal flow of Mr S’s work:

Teacher: “The love of Desdemona for Othello appears at first such a violation of all probabilities that her father at once imputes it to magic, what impact does this have on the relationship between the three………You boy?”

Me boy: “(mmmm Alison’s hair is so shiny today, I wonder if she’s up for a snog behind the bike sheds?) me sir?….Errr, does he hire those three witches that caused Macbeth to talk to skulls to turn Othello in to a kids game sir?

Teacher: “GET OUT!”

And I never did get that snog!

As you may know, St George is the patron saint of England and St George’s day is 23rd April. We’ve had our special edition Bostin St George shirt for a number of years now and is very popular amongst our varied range of Bostin tees.

So when we got a picture of one of the Bostin fans wearing the shirt, we had to share it with you.

Chris Haden looks like he’s having a bostin time at Sharm el Sheik on the Red Sea.

Chris Haden at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt

Many thanks for sending us the picture Chris and we hope you have many more happy holidays in your Bostin tee!

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