Boxing Day

December 26 is Boxing Day throughout the United Kingdom which usually gives our British cousins an extra holiday. The recent heavy snows did close Heathrow Airport but a bit of snow could not deter these hardy folks. I have always considered myself a closet anglophile ever since those twenty-year old R.A.F. pilots battled the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain in 1940 thereby, perhaps, preserving western civilization. And in the same year the heroic evacuation of the British army from the beaches of Dunkirk to fight another day. And these people endured rationing long after WWII. Today, I salute my English friends with a song Noel Coward wrote when asked to write something quintessentially English. He chose the subject of his pub called "The Rose and Crown." It goes like this:
"Saturday night at the Rose & Crown is quite the place to be - soldiers and sailors, tinkers and tailors, out on the town for a bit of a spree - if you're tired of life with your husband or wife, and the kids are getting you down - things will all come right on Saturday night - AT THE ROSE AND CROWN". Hail Britannia!
tjs
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