General Chat

Tacky? I don't want to think about that...

But you bet I'll lift a glass (of Curmudgeon Ale, it seems only appropriate) to the old girl... and to you all. And I just put up my new maple leaf flag, too.

MJH

Oh Cynthia, that's ... tacky. ;)

And do you have the provenance then?

Lifted by a chambermaid ancestor of yours?

They're probably thinking 'Vicky' is a friend of yours JC :D


I inherited from my dad, who collected antiques, a pair of Vick's knicks (as we called them). The genuine article with her monogram sewn inside. Apparently they could fetch quite a bit at auction but I have passed them on to a member of the family.

Well, a fine bunch of republicans there are around here!

I think we should all share our fond memories of old Vic ... ;)

She was nice to Canada ... not so much to India, South Africa ...

Sadly, we don't even celebrate the birth of Queen Elizabeth II ne'er mind dear old Queen Victoria - wot a woman!


Yes........Happy Birthday to you Queen Victoria. Cheers indeed :-)




Cx.

Happy Birthday Vicky ! It looks like we might even get a day of sunshine at last !! Okay it almost stayed dry yesterday all day.......I need to get my garden in !!!!!.....and the grass cut =0)

No, that may have been on here briefly ... my mistake, too, BBC Canada took EE away from us a year ago and it came back months later on the multicultural religious channel Vision. Which shows it at 9 pm nightly, smack in the middle of prime time, an atrocity. If we didn't have time-shifting so we could watch one prime-time network drama at 9 pm and whatever other one is on at the same time at midnight on a west coast station, I would have had to abandon EE. Vision shows that other thing after it, a rural sort of soap opera that people are addicted to hereabouts, but I can't remember the name of it ...

Weeeellll, I must admit that to me *that* family are just another bunch of google-able reference points.

EE is grim - have you tried Hollyoaks??

;-)

Oh, I neglected to mention, she was born 24 May 1819, so that calls for 192 cheers, I think.

Well at least somebody is in the proper spirit of forelock-tugging then.

I've never noticed them celebrating the occasion on East Enders. (The Queen Vic ...)

Since it's something like October 2008 in Albert Square on BBC Canada ... and I am a good three weeks behind on my taped episodes watching and will likely just have to give up and start over now, I couldn't say ... but I've never noticed it. Tsk.

Just been given a biog of the pinkcheeked one by Christopher Hibbert; not read it yet as I prefer social history.

But yup, cheers to Vicky!

Oh well, those ?s bracketing my chorus looked like musical notes when I posted them ...

This weekend, Canadians from sea to sea (well, except in Quebec) join in toasting the birth of the old Queen.

Yes, we colonials like our monarchs, dead or alive.

The ... what is it, 3rd? 4th? ... Monday in May is a national civic holiday in honour of Alexindrina Victoria, otherwise Her Majesty Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India.

She was the monarch who presided over the confederation of the various bits of North America that became Canada, in 1867, whereby we acquired responsible government.

(The Governor General involved may have been my grx2 grandfather's brother, but that's another story. ;) )

Oh well! I'd always understood this was her "official" birthday, not her real birthday at all -- but it transpires that May 24th was indeed her real birthday, hence "May 24th weekend" as it is commonly called, although Monday falls on the 23rd this year, for instance. I guess we make it the last Monday before the 24th.

Also otherwise known, it seems, as 2-4 weekend, although I've never heard it called that by anyone I know. A 2-4 is the case of two dozen beer (never "beers" in Canada) that people buy to toast with.

So join us, all you Commonwealthers, and even you revolting types on the southern part of this continent, and hoist a bottle or a can.

? Happy Birthday dear Alexandrina Victoria,
Happy Birthday to you! ?