VE Day

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn" <kcawte at n...> wrote:
> K
> 
> First off I get the impression you think I'm coming at this from a
> non-European perspective (forgive me if I'm reading that wrong) but 
as I'm
> British and live in Britain I think that's highly unlikely. 


Geoff:
My apologies. I did misinterpret your comments as coming from the 
other side of the pond. As a member of the group, I for a couple of 
years, I now tend to think that a majority of contributors are from 
that large country well to the west of us(!)

K:
> If you want to celebrate the anniversary of the end of the war
> then why don't we use a really radical idea and hold the 
celebrations on (or
> around, a weekday wouldn't be very practical) the actual 
anniversary than
> just picking an arbitrary date?

Geoff:
IIRC, that's what we did in 1995 on the 50th anniversary. Mark you, 
that was also the year 2 BNL (Before New Labour)
:-)