1. What is the date of St Valentine’s Day?
2. How many millions of pounds are spent on flowers for St Valentine’s Day in the UK each year?
3. Which English Monarch declared St Valentine’s Day to be a holiday?
4. Which Roman Emporer had the original St Valentine put to death for defying the rule forbidding young soldiers from marrying?
5. What is a Valentine Rant?
(questions 1-4 from “Perfect Pub Quiz” by David Pickering.)
Answers …
1. February 14th
2. £22m
3. King Henry VIII
4. Cladius II
5. Find out this evening at the Royal British Legion but possibly along the lines of “… And as for all those stupid “Roses are red, violets are blue” poems… Violets are purple you idiots!….”
14 February is also the Feast of St Cyril and St Methodius, the monks who took Christianity to Russia and invented the Cyrillic and Glagolithic alphabets.
Nobody spent much yesterday celebrating them!
Seeing this brought memories as my Father was a British Legion man as was his brother.
Seeing this sign reminded me of my Father Harry and his Brother Alf, both British Legion men.