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  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    @Plantminded gosh, that sounds terrible - bonfires really stink! Don't hang your washing out, or it will smell too!
  • seacrowsseacrows Posts: 234
    pansyface said:
    When we first came to live here Wednesday was half day closing. Nothing like taking a trip into town only to remember too late that it’s Wednesday.😕
    Now, where I grew up Thursday was half day closing (and market day). It took me a good few months to figure out the shops closed on Wednesdays because they used the wrong day.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @KT53 All the major Christian feasts are based on pagan festivals!  So much easier to convert people if you give them a reason to keep their fun and traditions, just slightly redirected.

    Sympathy @Pianoplayer.  I hate the smell of tobacco smoke too.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I can smell tobacco smoke coming from cars driving past . 
    It's disgusting
    Devon.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    BenCotto, am feeling all of my 300 years this morning, after 3 hours of broken sleep. Good Friday and Easter Monday ARE Bank Holidays, Christmas and Easter Sunday are not, there is an official list, honest, I can screenshot it on my phone.When I wake up!!!!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I suppose because banks never open on a Sunday anyway, Easter Sunday couldn't be considered a bank holiday. 🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Here’s the official list of Bank Holidays https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays Good Friday only became a Bank Holiday in 1971 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland it has been a Bank Holiday since 1871.
    Rutland, England
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    You’re expecting logic from a religion??????! 🤯 😵‍💫 🤣 

    Of course not, but I would be interested to hear the logic they apply. :D
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2022
    The logic is that in biblical times everyone used the lunar calendar ... this was superseded by the Julian and then the Gregorian calendars ... 

    This explains the rest of it https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48067272

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Hostafan1 said:
    I can smell tobacco smoke coming from cars driving past . 
    It's disgusting
    Most of the smoke I smell coming from cars around here doesn't seem to be tobacco :# It certainly explains the quality of driving though.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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