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Hello Nym: I had planned to catch up with the garden today but it rained.
Nothing special; lunch with neighbours, daughter threatening to visit, but we shall see.
Typical Bank holiday.
Yes the rain threw me too!
I now have a working plan of what to plant where in the new border, but that’ll have to wait.
Took a lady friend to watch the Rali de Portugal stages in the northern Algarve. Very hot, very windy, VERY dusty and tremendous fun.
OZ
OK, explain the term “bank holiday”. Is that connected to some historical event? Monday is Memorial Day here, which refers to a memorial for those who died in the Civil War. Not that people think about that. Mostly it’s an opportunity to have a barbecue, sleep in or leave town.
Stay home and avoid the stampedes.
Jaime
As you are no doubt aware the word ‘holiday’ is derived from ‘holy day’ – religious festivals. According to Wiki prior to 1834 the Bank of England observed 34 saints days and other religious festivals as holidays. This was reduced to just four in 1834: 1st May, 1st November; Christmas Day and Good Friday. The number and dates have been amended over the years, but because they were originally ‘Bank Holidays’ the name has stuck in the UK.
What to do? Avoid planning anything – it’s well known that UK Bank Holiday = Rain + Cold + Traffic Jams…
Ideas for the bank Holiday weekend – Read a good book 🙂
Just to put things right It used to be Whitsun but because of the moveable date of Easter it was decided to fix the date to the last Monday of May.
So if they can fix this weekend why can’t they fix Easter to the second weekend in April, rather than a moveable feast that has its origins in pre Christian gods and the coming of the sun and spring.
IS I am reading a book by one of your country men at the moment. Maxx Barry, the book is called Syrup and it is brilliant. I read his Jennifer Government some years ago and was really impressed.
A good sense of humour and worth getting hold of.
So bank holidays were originally saint’s days. Though it looks like at least three of these were old pagan holy days.
Thanks, Boa, for the explanation.
Dating of Easter in the West: the Nicene Council, 325 AD, decreed Easter to be the first Sunday after the full moon following the Spring Equinox, March 21, unless that full moon falls on a Sunday – in which case Easter is the following Sunday. If the Church can make it complicated – it will!
If you happen to be in our area we have our annual Victorian Fayre on tomorrow-I won’t be going as it is now filed with emmets and has none of the spirit we had when I was a little girl.
I am planning on cleaning the house tomorrow, taking the winks out for a play at the park and watching Mary Poppins. That’ll do me.
xxx
Busy, with the focus of ‘garden’ including a visit to 5 gardens yesterday in the Yellow Book Scheme,a visit to a nursery this morning and planting and other gardening all afternoon – while waiting on edge for all four members of the household to be re-united under one roof. (Techie Adviser has been undertaking the Silver Duke of Ed on Exmoor since Friday!)
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Hello Nym: I had planned to catch up with the garden today but it rained.
Nothing special; lunch with neighbours, daughter threatening to visit, but we shall see.
Typical Bank holiday.
Yes the rain threw me too!
I now have a working plan of what to plant where in the new border, but that’ll have to wait.
Took a lady friend to watch the Rali de Portugal stages in the northern Algarve. Very hot, very windy, VERY dusty and tremendous fun.
OZ
OK, explain the term “bank holiday”. Is that connected to some historical event? Monday is Memorial Day here, which refers to a memorial for those who died in the Civil War. Not that people think about that. Mostly it’s an opportunity to have a barbecue, sleep in or leave town.
Stay home and avoid the stampedes.
Jaime
As you are no doubt aware the word ‘holiday’ is derived from ‘holy day’ – religious festivals. According to Wiki prior to 1834 the Bank of England observed 34 saints days and other religious festivals as holidays. This was reduced to just four in 1834: 1st May, 1st November; Christmas Day and Good Friday. The number and dates have been amended over the years, but because they were originally ‘Bank Holidays’ the name has stuck in the UK.
What to do? Avoid planning anything – it’s well known that UK Bank Holiday = Rain + Cold + Traffic Jams…
Ideas for the bank Holiday weekend – Read a good book 🙂
Just to put things right It used to be Whitsun but because of the moveable date of Easter it was decided to fix the date to the last Monday of May.
So if they can fix this weekend why can’t they fix Easter to the second weekend in April, rather than a moveable feast that has its origins in pre Christian gods and the coming of the sun and spring.
IS I am reading a book by one of your country men at the moment. Maxx Barry, the book is called Syrup and it is brilliant. I read his Jennifer Government some years ago and was really impressed.
A good sense of humour and worth getting hold of.
So bank holidays were originally saint’s days. Though it looks like at least three of these were old pagan holy days.
Thanks, Boa, for the explanation.
Dating of Easter in the West: the Nicene Council, 325 AD, decreed Easter to be the first Sunday after the full moon following the Spring Equinox, March 21, unless that full moon falls on a Sunday – in which case Easter is the following Sunday. If the Church can make it complicated – it will!
If you happen to be in our area we have our annual Victorian Fayre on tomorrow-I won’t be going as it is now filed with emmets and has none of the spirit we had when I was a little girl.
I am planning on cleaning the house tomorrow, taking the winks out for a play at the park and watching Mary Poppins. That’ll do me.
xxx
Busy, with the focus of ‘garden’ including a visit to 5 gardens yesterday in the Yellow Book Scheme,a visit to a nursery this morning and planting and other gardening all afternoon – while waiting on edge for all four members of the household to be re-united under one roof. (Techie Adviser has been undertaking the Silver Duke of Ed on Exmoor since Friday!)