Happy Primrose Day

I'm not keen on Christmas, and similar outpourings of religious fervour.

So I would like to wish all the splendid and super-friendly Pennine Massivers I've met on ride-outs and events this year - and all those I've merely met or tussled with over the Web - a very happy Primrose Day. For next April.

Meanwhile, I hope your 2006 is fantastic and brings to you and your family/partners, health, a modicum of wealth, and a lot of happiness.

And I hope it pi55es down on the Costa del Sol for the next month and that Ducati goes on strike, leaving 749 owners without spares, shortly after Sete Gibernau falls off the MotoGP bike for the 16th time leaving the team with no alternative but to withdraw from racing and give Edgar Jessop his comeback opportunity on a Vincent Grey Flash spannered by an itinerant East Lancs wheeler-dealer based in Marbella, who is then forced to return to live in Oswaldtwistle and stand his long-overdue round on the next PennMass Ride-out which will probably be led by some southern shandy-drinking poof on a Honda foisted upon us by an unholy clique of Moderators from Soho who think that they are real cockneys because they drop their aitches and say things like "Wassup bruv" and "Leave it ahhrtt." Oh, and that Grantham is struck by a large meteor which later bounces on to Melton Mowbray destroying the source of the most disgusting pork pies in the land, leaving Stew an' 'Ard and a pint of Timothy Taylor's as our proper national meal instead of prawn ciabatta and a glass of warm chardonnay followed by a skimmed milk sloppy-cino.

And yes, I HAVE been shopping today and YES it has left me very grumpy. How could you tell?

eh,,,,primrose day!!!never heard of it (or are you taking the ****)

I found this

Upon the death of the beloved British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), on April nineteenth, 1881, Primrose Day was instituted in his honor, as the English primrose was his favorite flower. Queen Victoria sent bouquets of primroses to his funeral according to a contempory account; The coffin lies on its bier in an alcove leading out of the modest hall of Hughenden Manor. But of its material, one might almost say of its dimensions, nothing can be seen. It is literally one mass of floral beauty. Here are wreaths from every member of the Royal Family in England bouquets of primroses sent by the Queen, with an inscription attached to them, saying that they came from Osborne Hill, and that they are of the sort which Lord Beaconsfield loved. Two years later, a bronze statue of Lord Beaconsfield was erected at Parliament Square, and it became customary to decorate it with primroses every year on the anniversary of his death. Ofttimes at Easter the woodlands of England are seen carpeted with wild primroses.


dont know if this is what El Bocc is on about

Personally I prefer RED ROSES

cjb wrote:

dont know if this is what El Bocc is on about

Don't worry about it mate the fool often doesn't know what he is on about himself until someone reminds him! (Next he will be telling you about when he was the test rider on the first wooden framed motorcycle)

Originally Posted by Peter Henry

cjb wrote:

Don't worry about it mate the fool often doesn't know what he is on about himself until someone reminds him! (Next he will be telling you about when he was the test rider on the first wooden framed motorcycle)

[Richie]

Thank you very much for your warm and friendly wishes for Primrose day. A little premeture but thank you all the same.

Myself and the rest of my clan spent most of yesterday putting up the Christmas tree and I spent most of the day changing plugs from German to English , so the lights work... then spending another hour un twisting and taking knots out and changing bulbs , hanging lights in the windows and other such Christmasy things... Then spent 3 hours battleing through hords of very unfriendly Christmas shoppers ,with two kids in tow, trying to find cards and a prezzie for there mother. Hussel and Bussel and hargey bargey, Nearly lost little Jake twice in one shop, ( Why do shopkeeps put small toys out of the box on the lowest shelf!!!!! )

All was well upon our return as a Small bottle of wiskey with my name on suddenly apeared, and then through the rest of the night evaporated and mixed with my blood system... nice

anyway cheers and happy Christmas you ol' fool...

Originally Posted by cjb

Upon the death of the beloved British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli (Lord Beaconsfield), on April nineteenth, 1881, Primrose Day was instituted in his honor, as the English primrose was his favorite flower.

Sound research dear boy, sound research. And as it's the 125th anniversary next year of this great man's death, a man without whom the sv650 might never have happened, I feel it should be celebrated.

Originally Posted by A Spanish Mountebank

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Don't worry about it mate the ^ fool often doesn't know what he is on about himself until someone reminds him! (Next he will be telling you about when he was the test rider on the first wooden framed motorcycle)

Which reminds me: when Disraeli and I were road testing one of the first wooden framed motorcycles, me wearing a purple basque beneath my riding gear(refer Idle Banter), we were able to draw on the expertise of one, Pedro Henri, who had in fact already had one.......in Spain of course where they were cheaper/hotter/faster/ redder/ woodier/made by Ducati/ridden by Sete Gibbonfeatures etc etc....

El Boc..Nice of you to mention that but in my usual self effacing manner I wished for you to take the spotlight on this one!

However I do believe that your cousin(born within a few weeks of yourself) Isambard Kingdom Brunel is without doubt the engineering genius that really began to explore what machines could do for man and I take my hat off to him.

For those who do not know of him he was known to family and friends simply as Fred or smart a*se!

Those wooden framed bikes you speak of did they require special treatment? (dutch elm disease springs to mind)