His lordship has, regrettably (!) suffered another brainwave: A proper flagpole, with a gold-leaf finial, mounted at an angle with a suitably-sized Union Flag; to be flown on Flag Days; and official mourning periods at half-mast, at Home.
There used to be elegant triple, angled and wall-mounted flagpoles above the porch at Storbrooke House on Massey Avenue, Belfast, latterly the residence of the 5th Lord Dunleath.
Flag Days consist of about a dozen or more occasions per annum. And naturally I shall make one exception: Europe Day, on the 9th May.
I presume this is tongue in cheek?
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ReplyDeleteOh Lordy - a gold-topped flagpole in Belfast - fame at last, Tim, see you on CNN this Twelfth.
ReplyDeleteWhy not go all out and add two sentry boxes to your front door. I really think you're onto something here. Any ideas how I could achieve world domination as a novelist?
Personally as a lapsed RC (with mental scars from attending a Dublin Gael Scoil in my youth) I have no sense of patriotism whatever. I like the Queen for her neat coats and pretty brooches and lack of spitting but I daren't go out marching on the 12th!!!
Told you it was yet another "brainwave"!
ReplyDeleteI'd only fly it on a dozen days of the year, about once a month.
The Ernes fly the flag at Crom most of the time - perhaps hundreds of day a year! Not that I'd compare Belmont Hall (!) with stately Crom Castle.
Well, why not fly the flag? It's not illegal. I love vintage bunting - pink polkadots and floral off-cuts - I'm going make some to hang in my garden this summer!!!
ReplyDeleteHave you thought about a 21 gun salute on suitable occasions? Though I think you might get into trouble on that one !
ReplyDeleteWhat a splendid idea! Would the TA step up to the mark, do you think?
ReplyDeleteHow big is your garden?!
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could re-direct a parade, or two, through the demesne?
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Easy on the Tanqueray old boy.
ReplyDeleteI was sober when I wrote the article. ;-)
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