Today is Liberation Day in Guernsey and Jersey. It commemorates the liberation of the Channel Islands on 9 May 1945, which marked the end of the islands’ occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. On 9 May 1945, HMS Bulldog arrived in St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the German forces surrendered unconditionally aboard the vessel at dawn. British forces landed in St Peter Port shortly afterwards, greeted by crowds of joyous but malnourished islanders singing, amongst other patriotic songs, “Sarnia-Cherie”.
The same day, HMS Beagle arrived in Jersey to accept the surrender of the occupying forces there. Two naval officers, Surgeon Lieutenant Ronald McDonald and Sub Lieutenant R Milne, were met by the Harbor Master, who escorted them to his office where they together hoisted the Union Flag, before also raising it on the flagstaff of the Pomme d’Or Hotel.
Sark was liberated on 10 May 1945, and the German troops in Alderney surrendered on 16 May 1945.
BADA BING!!
Getting old is weird because you’re still that same enthusiastic kid trapped in an antique body.
Friend: Look, your husband is talking to another girl. Her: Let him. I want to see how long he can suck in his stomach.
I knew the psychic was a fraud when they accepted my check.
Why is there so much day left at the end of my patience?
I decided to paint all my clothes…Just finished my second coat.
Him: You always watch cooking shows but your cooking is abysmal. Her: You watch a lot of porn…
Grandma once said, “Sometimes you have to hug the people you don’t like so you know how big to dig the hole in your backyard.”
Eurovision song contest finals are on Saturday! Here are a couple more…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmLeV47Au4
and Norway: http://eurovision 2023 norway
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