# So, what did you do for St. David's Day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 2, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025 "2009-03-02T16:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/1 "2009-03-02T16:49:32Z")
One of the congregants was selling Welsh cakes before the service at church yesterday, and I hoisted my [Welsh flag](http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd107/woodhillmk/welsh_flag.jpg) on the church flagpole in honour of [Dewi Sant](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_David). Any leeks eaten in his honour yesterday? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/2 "2009-03-02T17:10:14Z")
I spent a long time driving down the A1 wondering why Radio 3 had given so much airtime for Aled Jones to chunter on about _Elijah_ in the Welsh choral tradition. Go me, showing off the Welsh part of my heritage :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/3 "2009-03-02T17:15:06Z")
okay, that’s one remedial raw leek for you to eat today! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/4 "2009-03-02T17:20:13Z")
I knocked a leek about a pate! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/5 "2009-03-02T17:22:01Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Any leeks eaten in his honour yesterday? Yes, we had a leek and cheese galette for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/6 "2009-03-02T20:33:43Z")
that sounds good - care to share the recipe? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/7 "2009-03-02T21:11:31Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > that sounds good - care to share the recipe? Mr. Neville’s the one who made it, but [I believe this is the recipe he used](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Goat-Cheese-and-Leek-Galette-101658). We vary the cheeses we use, in order to use up what we think needs to be used up in the cheese drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/8 "2009-03-02T21:27:35Z")
We sang Cwm Rhondda as the recessional hymn at mass last Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/9 "2009-03-03T02:20:58Z")
Nothing for that particularly, but I did have a party to celebrate my 10,000th day of life (since I missed my birthday party this year due to an inconveniently timed election). ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/10 "2009-03-03T02:50:23Z")
I bought two lovely bunches of daffodils. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/11 "2009-03-03T03:11:03Z")
Saint who’s Day? Never heard of it before, but that’s a badass flag linked to in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/12 "2009-03-03T04:38:09Z")
Saint David is the patron saint of Wales - known as Dewi Sant in Welsh. That’s the Welsh flag in the link. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/13 "2009-03-03T05:59:37Z")
BTW, my dad’s name was David, and his birthday was March 1, but it was a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-did-you-do-for-st-davids-day/488025/14 "2009-03-03T12:57:56Z")
I watched a couple of episodes of _Bobinogs_ and _Sam Tan_\* with my half-Taff little daughter, and then listen while my fully-Taff wife sang welsh songs to her. \*Fireman Sam