Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Happy St. Andrew's Day
From all of us here at the RBR World Headquarters - "Happy St. Andrew's Day and Happy Havering!"
It was a great party last night for St. Andrew's Eve here, though much more sedate than in the last few years. Most came in attire that turned back the clock a few years as wittnesed by the photo to the left. It must have ben the tightness of the costumes that cut down on some of the wildness from past years, though the age of the celebrants may have had something to do with it also. They were a little older this year.
Everyone is primed to start havering the haggis at noon Greenwich Mean Time today 7:00 A.M. BMT (Bird Mean Time).
The RBR will be posting the first haggis of the season the minute it occurs.
Here are a few facts about our favorite saint courtesy of "The Scotsman"
• St Andrew was a fisherman in Capernaum, Israel. He became an apostle of Christ and was crucified in 60AD.
• The cross on which he was bound (not nailed) was x-shaped - hence the x-shaped cross on Scotland's flag.
• Around the eighth century, the Church conceived of patron saints as a way of easing converts to the notion of a single god. Saintly relics held in Rome were dispersed.
• Tradition has it that in 733 a monk was warned in a dream to take St Andrew's bones to the ends of the earth. He landed in what would later be called St Andrews, Fife, with a tooth, an arm bone, a kneecap, and some fingers of the saint.
• St Andrew's Day is popular among Scots abroad. This year the Royal Gurkha Rifles will entertain Scots in Kuala Lumpur, whisky will be shared at the Renaissance Hotel in Moscow and there will be skiing plus haggis in Aspen, Colorado.
• St Andrew is also patron saint of Greece, Russia, Amalfi in Italy, fishermen, gout, singers, spinsters and sore throats.
• In Russia, St Andrew's Day was popular before the 1917 revolution and is mentioned in Dr Zhivago. It was banned as a religious holiday but parties with borsch and vodka are making a comeback.
You may read the entire article HERE.
It was a great party last night for St. Andrew's Eve here, though much more sedate than in the last few years. Most came in attire that turned back the clock a few years as wittnesed by the photo to the left. It must have ben the tightness of the costumes that cut down on some of the wildness from past years, though the age of the celebrants may have had something to do with it also. They were a little older this year.Everyone is primed to start havering the haggis at noon Greenwich Mean Time today 7:00 A.M. BMT (Bird Mean Time).
The RBR will be posting the first haggis of the season the minute it occurs.
Here are a few facts about our favorite saint courtesy of "The Scotsman"
• St Andrew was a fisherman in Capernaum, Israel. He became an apostle of Christ and was crucified in 60AD.
• The cross on which he was bound (not nailed) was x-shaped - hence the x-shaped cross on Scotland's flag.
• Around the eighth century, the Church conceived of patron saints as a way of easing converts to the notion of a single god. Saintly relics held in Rome were dispersed.
• Tradition has it that in 733 a monk was warned in a dream to take St Andrew's bones to the ends of the earth. He landed in what would later be called St Andrews, Fife, with a tooth, an arm bone, a kneecap, and some fingers of the saint.
• St Andrew's Day is popular among Scots abroad. This year the Royal Gurkha Rifles will entertain Scots in Kuala Lumpur, whisky will be shared at the Renaissance Hotel in Moscow and there will be skiing plus haggis in Aspen, Colorado.
• St Andrew is also patron saint of Greece, Russia, Amalfi in Italy, fishermen, gout, singers, spinsters and sore throats.
• In Russia, St Andrew's Day was popular before the 1917 revolution and is mentioned in Dr Zhivago. It was banned as a religious holiday but parties with borsch and vodka are making a comeback.
You may read the entire article HERE.
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