Happy St Matthew's Day!

[mvgrogan]

Hope you're all out blackberry picking, marching through London, having tea with the Lord Mayor and collecting your little mint coins!

[Vonny]

Or at work? Does that count?

[Great Plum]

My church celebrated St Matthew's day on Sunday - the vicar did a hilarious sermon that seemed to involve using the nave as a cricket wicket!

[Fjgrogan]

I am ashamed to say that in our church St Matthew did not get a mention in spite of the fact that it should be our patronal festival; so I made sure that everyone I spoke to today got the message. Quite fitting actually as this evening we had a confirmation service in which candidates from St Matthew's far outnumbered all the others!

[stpandp]

My church celebrated St Matthew's day on Sunday - the vicar did a hilarious sermon that seemed to involve using the nave as a cricket wicket!

I think I know who you mean, and this does not surprise me

[Great Plum]

Yes, I think you knew him from Midhurst?

[Momto2]

There was a fab photo and write-up on the CH band and the St Matthew's Day parade in yesterday's Evening Argus - cannot for the life of me find a link but will see if I can scan it on

[englishangel]

while Googling for the above I came across this, well said that man.

http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/869105

commenting on this

http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/866383

[Fjgrogan]

What a coincidence. Many years ago, when at least one of my daughters was at Hertford, and Long Saturday fell the day after St Matthew's Day, I horrified them by mentioning that I had fallen into conversation with an Old Blue whilst following the march, gone for a drink with him afterwards and not actually thought to exchange names until we were leaving the pub! His name was John Ollerhead, writer of the letter in the second link above. I was not in the habit of picking up strange men and drinking with them, but somehow it seemed OK simply because he was an Old Blue!

[englishangel]

[mvgrogan]

Mother!!

[Vonny]

Mother!!

[englishangel]

this may be on a thread somewhere entitled "the things they say" or some such, but when my son was 2 or so we were going round the family, "Auntie Sarah is Mummy's sister, Uncle Alan is Daddy's brother etc." We then got to "Grandpa is Mummy's Daddy and his name is 'Sid' says son, Grandma is Mummy's Mummy and her name is 'Oh Mother', " collpase of entire family.

[NEILL THE NOTORIOUS]

Yes--- my Elder Son (56) at the age of three ,couldn't get his little tricyclle round a doorpost -- he got off- kicked the tyres, and exclaimed --- BUDDY TING -BUDDY TING !
He had obviously obsrved Daddy with his 1938 Opel Kapitan Tourer !!!!
Bi- lingual in German at 3 -- now bi-lingual in French (Living in Switzerland) and REFUSES to speak German (In the Jura it is "Just not done " !)

[Fjgrogan]

On similar lines - when Maria was small and her paternal grandparents were visiting she was struggling to open a sliding door by pulling it. When it wouldn't budge she turned to me and said 'Oh fick it Mummy'. I got told off by my father-in-law (who used to swear like a trooper, himself!) for letting her use 'that kind of language'. He clearly didn't believe me when I explained that what she was asking me to do was FIX it. What he thought she was saying was a favourite word of his but not one she ever heard in our house!