Celebrate! It’s 24th May! Empire Day!

Sons and daughters of the British Empire, wherever you are today….

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…that the world has ever known.

And gird up your loins for the fight – to root out the woko-weasels, the cultural marxist vermin who have infiltrated the media, and, worse, the education system…

How Did Anti-Brit Far-Left Capture The National Trust?

– and the National Trust!

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….in order to denigrate the British heritage.

Happy Empire Day! 24th May!

I usually, on this date, write something a little nostalgic for the happy days as a kid in Ontario…

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…when we celebrated Empire Day.

This year, however, it’s different.

Ungrateful aliens, aided and abetted by scum of British stock, have decided to bully Brits into disowning the magnificent imperial heritage.

The British are told not to honour their forebears’ achievements, to forget how hardy pioneers took and tamed and settled vast wilderness territories…

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….and by sheer toil and grit transformed them into the vibrant, dynamic dominions we see today…

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Moreover, Britain bestowed the blessings of parliamentary democracy on a united India, created out of hundreds of separate principalities.

It may not have always been a gentle process, in any of the continents where the Union Jack flew proudly, but nor was it ignoble.

So there is NO WAY any Brit should be shamed of our ancestors…

…who built the greatest empire the world has ever seen.

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Last month there was a very good article….

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/26/honour-britains-imperial-troops-heroes-empire/

… which I recommend to anyone who needs to refresh memories of a glorious heritage. 

Happy Empire Day – 24th May!

Just a moment’s nostalgia for a happier Canada, when freedom reigned hand-in-hand with Her Majesty, in a Dominion where the Red Ensign flew proudly…

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….and our fire-crackers went off as we sang around the Empire Day bonfires in Perth County, Ontario…

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…as our forefathers sang when they created Canada.

Happy Empire Day! It’s 24th May Again!

A glorious day, too long not celebrated.

Those were the words I had prepared for the 24th May, but after the Mother Country was attacked this week, and grievously wounded by an evil Islamist, I suppose it’s inappropriate to sound too cheerful. Nevertheless…

No matter the British Empire is no more – the French still celebrate Bastille Day, after all, though the Bastille no longer stands!

They do so for the ideas and ideals it represents.

So too with the imperial legacy!

For without the British Empire, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and many other proud countries would not exist.

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Nor indeed would Kenya and Nigeria, which, like many African states today, are recognisable entities only because the tribes that once warred within their modern boundaries were brought together under the Union Jack.

I’ve no need to repeat the things I’ve said on previous Empire Days.

No holiday here, though tomorrow is an Indonesian holiday so at least if you raise a glass tonight to the imperial achievement…

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…at least you won’t have to go to work the morning after!

24th May, Empire Day, 23rd June, Independence Day!

Yes, the 24th May has rolled around again, so what a splendid excuse –  not right now, it’s 8am! –  for a glass of Jim Beam!

Although the British Empire did not, as Churchill famously hoped, last for a thousand years, its achievements still echo around the world..,

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…and those of us whose forebears were part of the great diaspora that established ‘dominion over palm and pine,’ toiling so hard and travelling so far, should take pride in  their glorious achievements. It’s a great shame that children in many of our schools don’t learn to share that pride.

The Empire is gone, but Britain, despite the many travails it has suffered through the folly of almost all post-Churchill governments, remains.

How ironic, then, that ‘Remain’ is currently the watch-word of those who would keep Britannia enchained to the supranational enemy in Brussels.

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Wherever you are, if British you are, please redouble your efforts in the cause of deliverance from durance vile. 

Independence Day falls in just under one month from today.

 

 

The Great Season of Melodrama, Jakarta, 24th May

Education Expo, Jakarta, 24th May

Australian Education Expo, Jakarta, 24th May

http://www.idp.com/indonesia/studyabroad/lp/education-exhibition-austraila

Another Event On That Glorious Day, Raisa, in Jakarta, 24th May!

Fifties Ontario Out Of Reach, What To Do On Empire Day?

I was so tired when I got home last night, quite out of character.

The key cause, methinks, was that Busway journey from Juanda Station to Grogol, packed into the bus, all seats taken, of course..

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 I DO love Jakarta, really!

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• … and ENDLESS delays, for reasons not entirely due to the traffic, which, at rush hour, was bad and probably worse than usual due to many people heading out of town for the holiday today, which they’ll extend to include tomorrow and the weekend.

A lot of them head for Puncak, incomprehensibly to me, because there is nothing to see or do there, except hills and tea plantations, which, once seen, are best consigned to the photo album.

BTW, it’s now bucketing rain outside, so good luck to them!

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• And of course my travel-stress was exacerbated a thousand-fold by the fact that a free-flow beer event was my destination. A dashed fine bar was marking its anniversary and since I use it from time to time, ’twas only fair I be part of that rejoicing.

By the time I reached it, nearly one of the three hours free-flow had elapsed, and the God’s Honest Truth was that I was so exhausted, I could only manage five pints before the call of home began to sound within my weary head.

A tempora, a mores.

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 alittle bit before even my time!

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While en route to West Jakarta, there was plenty of time to contemplate joyful celebrations from boyhood on, and for some reason – probably because it’s coming up soon – Empire Day in Ontario popped into my head, bonfires and red, white and blue bunting all around, our glorious Red Ensign flag fluttering uniquitously, as indeed it did all year round.

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 my last such day was in 1956, Dief the Chief was there…

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All my friends, neighbours and kinfolk, old and young alike, delighting in our shared heritage of loyalty.

I thought- how shall I spend Empire Day this year?

So today I’ve been scanning for accessible events. .

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If you too are wondering what to do to celebrate Empire Day in style this year,  there seem to be few events on Jakarta on 24th May – but then I spotted this, in West Java, just across the city limits – an energetic way to work up a thirst!

Alas, the conditions of entry forbid non-citizens from participation.

I also suspect there are few if any people in Bekasi who have even heard of Empire Day, nor would they have any interest whatsoever in celebrating it if they had!

But I’m sure we can watch, and observing people run ten kliks in this heavenly hot climate engenders thirst almost as much as running the darned thing!

PS, if readers do know of alternative options for a day or night out, please advise!