Happy Suffolk Day!

[Buenchico]

For obvious reasons we've not had a lot of special events going on today but I can't let our county's special day go unmarked, so here's our very own song, "A Million Acres". (Er, shouldn't that be 400,000 hectares these days though?)

[Buenchico]

Thanks, Haras2.

Over 1000 people took part in the making of that video.

You'll have to start a campaign to have 'Pembrokeshire Day' celebrated ;-)

[haras2]

I think we should
The standard of singing and playing was well up to Pembrokeshire's best
What about an Eisteddfod?

[Gromit]

I’m pretending this is Suffolk (it might be), because I love this song and video...

[Buenchico]

>>> What about an Eisteddfod?

Yes, you can have an Eisteddfod but you need more than that. In 'normal' times, Suffolk Day includes food festivals, river trips, art shows, jazz events and MUCH more!


>>> I’m pretending this is Suffolk (it might be)

That's sneaky, Gromit! Showing us pictures of Buckinghamshire (Turville, to be precise) and a morris team from Oxfordshire (Abingdon) and pretending it's Suffolk, just so that you can get your choice of music included here!

Nice song though ;-)

[marval]

Happy Suffolk day Buenchico and all other Suffolk folk.

Suffolk does have its dark side.

https://www.visitsuffolk.com/blog/the-darker-side-of-suffolk.aspx

[tiggerblue10]

Happy Suffolk Day Chris :o)

[Gromit]

Here in Lancashire we cannot compete your county’s beauty, sophistication and flatness.

So having posted a good video not of Suffolk, here is a bad video about Lancashire. His videos only redeeming feature is that it manages to rhyme ‘Picked Gherkins’ with ‘Dorothy Perkins’.

[Buenchico]

Thanks for the posts, folks.

I know all about the darker side of Suffolk, Marval, having been the weekend bar manager in a hotel that featured in a TV programme about all its ghosts. Our local rag also carries regular articles about some of the odd things that go on in the county:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/topic/Tag/Weird%20Suffolk

I have to admit, Gromit, that until I googled it, I'd always assumed that Ewan MacColl's 'Dirty Old Town' (upon which the song in your video is based) referred to somewhere in the north-east, rather than in Lancashire. However I now see that it actually referred to his home town of Salford.

Are you old enough to remember The Fivepenny Piece?

[Gromit]

Buenchico
// Are you old enough to remember The Fivepenny Piece? //

Worse than that. They are from my home town
The cover picture is of Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne, a meeting of the Peak Forest Canal, the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and the Manchester & Openshaw Canal.
At College I was taught by one of the group members, and got my school shoes from another group member’s shop.
I hated them with a vengeance locally we dismissively called them ‘Not a full shilling’.
And to top it all, one of ‘em even became a Tory Councillor.

[Gromit]

They were regulars on Ester Rantzen’s ‘That’s Life!’ on the BBC.

[Buenchico]

Hmmm.

On the same thread I've managed to provide a link that mentions Roopower's father by name and then find a Youtube video from a band whose members (or, at least, some of them) were personally known to Gromit.

I wonder if I'm psychic?

;-)

[lankeela]

Happy Suffolk Day to all you tractor boys from canary land.

[Buenchico]

Thanks for your post, Lankeela.

Let's hope that the lockdown has been lifted enough by 27 July in order for some Norfolk Day celebrations to still go ahead.

[roopower]

https://youtu.be/gLHDpNFz5Bs

Have you come across The Kipper Family? Great favourites of my dad, though strictly Norfolk!

[Buenchico]

I loved the Kipper Family, Roopower, but please don't let thay be too widely known as they were that strange county of Norfolk, which we Suffolk folk try to avoid any mention of.

I understand that the armed border guards, up there in Diss, aren't being quite so fussy about visa requirements these days though as they used to be but I still doubt that the wall between our two counties will fall any day soon ;-)

[roopower]

It has to be said "they" have been trying to move the border for years. Up until now we've successfully fended them off! I remember wearing a 'Keep Lowestoft Suffolk' badge in my youth.