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Cats owned: Leia: blue torbie
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Posts: 31,378
22-05-2009, 08:41 PM   #11

Re: Rainy Friday


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Originally Posted by MrsH
Some years ago there was a Bank Holiday for the Monday after Whit Sunday (Pentecost) Then some bright spark decided to secularise the holiday and gave it a fixed date of the last Monday in May.

It hasn't got a proper name now except for Spring Bank Holiday, pathetic isn't it?
Thanks! Typical bureaucrats. We do it here too: Washington's "Birthday" always falls on Monday now. Although I admit that while I was working I did enjoy a long weekend!



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