Why do we have Bank Holidays? They are a hangover from a time when the working man (and occasionally woman) was given 3 hours holiday a year by his Capitalist scumdog millowner boss, and the more liberal of our rulers decided that just wasn't on.
So we now get 3 days off in the coldest & darkest time of the year, 2 days off when if you're lucky the sun might come out for an hour or two in between howling gales and driving rain, an utterly pointless day off at the beginning of May - although that one tends to have the best weather of the lot, 1 day off at the end of May - again not bad weather, but looking out the window it just looks dull and probably not very warm. Then a day off at the end of August - it nearly always rains.
I say grant every working person the right to take the 8 days whenever they want in addition to whatever they're given by their employer, unless they already get over 6 weeks, in which case the additional days can be reduced pro-rata. That way I wouldn't be sat here bored typing this, I would've taken the day in middle of July. So what if the everyone decided the same, shut the country for a week in the niddle of June/July!
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I've just been told that B's son's 40th birthday charabanc to Sandown races doesn't get back to the pub reception until 7pm. We'll be at the race course for 6 hours! Gawd help me. It also means I'm almost certain to miss at least the first half of Ingurland v USA. Damn, bugger, bastard, etc etc. B doesn't see what all the fuss is about so I'll have to grin and bear it!
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