Dead days
I have a lot of things to organise.
I have to make an appointment with the vet as Penny is slightly overdue for her monthly injection.
But the vet is closed.
I need to make an appointment with Doc as I have a wee problem, where I know the solution but only he can write the prescription.
But Doc is closed.
I could forge the script, I suppose.
But the chemist is closed.
I need an electrician as I have a problem with some recessed ceiling lights. I have made sure it’s not a dud bulb and I have a suspicion I know what’s wrong but for once I would prefer someone experienced had a look at it.
But all the electricians are closed.
Bank holidays are fucking annoying.
From UK: Is October 30th meant to commemorate anything?
https://publicholidays.ie/october-bank-holiday/
Good idea to break up the long stretch between August and Christmas.
We could do the same here – October 21st anyone?
It seems the Gubment thought it a good idea to break up the long stretch between August and Christmas. I wish the U.K. had a public holiday in Autumn…October 21at anyone?
I assume it’s just because it’s near Halloween.
An interesting factoid – apparently Halloween goes back to pagan times and originated in Ireland. It spread and was then hijacked by the Mercans and turned into that ghastly “Trick or Treat”.
Seems to have been the original Celtic festival of ‘Samhain’, probably practised throughout these Islands but discontinued due to the first Christian conversion of Britain in the Roman occupation. Ireland, I believe, which the Romans never reached, was then converted from Britain. Then the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes wiped out Christianity in Britain (and a good number of the original Brits en route) but never reached Ireland. The reconversion of Britain began after a couple of hundred years or so, this time from both the South East – from Europe – and from the West and North-West – from Ireland.
I believe there was some heated debate (perish the thought that they came to blows!) about the real date of Easter. But I really shouldn’t be arguing Irish history with an Irishman!