Today Is...St Andrew's Day

When a countries national animal is the Unicorn then you do have to wonder about it but today is Scotland's national day so och aye the noo and all that.
Some folk do find the Great Britain or United Kingdom thing confusing, Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales and the UK is all the above along with Northern Ireland and i am sure there is some easy way to remember it but there is no mistaking the difference between England and the cold and wet bit at the top of the British Isles, aka Scotland.
Their Saint is Andrew who was apparently at all the big events when the long haired, bearded hippy called Jesus came along and is depicted in the famous Last Supper painting, that's him third from the end on the left with his hands up in surprise but not as surprised as when he found himself crucified not long afterwards on a X shaped cross rather than the T shaped one Jesus died on but no coming back alive for him, his dad wasn't important enough obviously, but it did get him to become part of the flag of Scotland.
The story goes that Óengus II led an army of Scots into battle against the Angles, led by Æthelstan, and he prayed for victory and two white clouds formed an X shape in the sky and they took it that Andrew was blessing them and they won the battle and was so grateful they made him their patron saint, set a white X against a blue background on their flag and named a golf course after him.
Since the Union of England and Scotland, the Scots have been trying to gain it's independence ever since and at the last referendum in 2015 the then leader, Alex Salmon, said we wouldn't be able to keep our nuclear weapons there anymore.
Being the kind and caring people that we are, England keeps all its most dangerous weapons in another country, that country being Scotland and if Scotland went it's own way, England will have to keep all our weapons of mass destruction elsewhere which wasn't so much of a problem, we would still have Northern Ireland and Wales just sitting there.
Turned out the Scottish couldn't tear themselves away from us oh so lovable English so enjoy your day Scotland, remember to drink responsibly which to a Scotsman means stopping the whisky and moving onto lager when you go blind.