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Independent's Day - encouraging people across Britain to buy at local shops today

http://barkingside21.blogspot.com/2011/06/independents-day.html

Comments

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's nifty! Thanks for pointing it out. =:o}

[reddwarfer.livejournal.com]

That question is full of assumptions, isn't it?

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I thought it was "the day those damned colonials got uppity..."

Independents Day is a good idea for anybody. But the question isn't necessarily chauvinistic to the US -- Mexico has Cinco de Mayo, Canada has Canada Day (July 1, which makes for a staggered long weekend that's equally inconvenient for everyone visiting across the border) and I know Russia has something in... I think it's October, it's been a long time since World History in high school.)