Well I was there last Monday, but many won't be going back until Monday or even later.
I personally love Christmas with my family, and I make sure that I work hard enough through the year to always have the time to take a week off that includes it. But the whole fortnight thing to me is baffling, and seems to have emerged in the UK as something almost akin to a right. The whole country seems to stop a week of more before Christmas and takes until the middle of January to start up again.
I know that other parts of the world, including the rather more dynamic economies of the US just do not behave like this and I'm not sure either when it all started to creep in so much here. But it is now entrenched and it is sclerotic and pernicious.
I really do not have any difficulty with us in the UK having a bit longer than some to celebrate Christmas, but what is so special about January 2nd, or December 30th.? Or whatever the dates are which happen to fall on the |"second week", as it is now known.
Maybe soon, everyone will be asking for another week off, just to recover from the first two.
Friday, 2 January 2015
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Happy New Year!
At least I remember to come on here on New years Eve!
Happy New Year to anyone having a look. Good luck and God bless in 2015.
I come on here sometimes just to give a view on anything that is in the air, or maybe to ramble on about the continuing and ridiculously frustrating fortunes of SAFC, and of course those of the Durham and England cricket teams.
Well not even any of that tonight. Time is tight, although I am in with the whole crew tonight. So I thought I'd restrict myself to a few predictions, if only to test myself! And I'm returning to a few regular topics as well.
Politics. The awful state of affairs in the UK is set to continue with another hung parliament. No overall majority. The right vote is split, but despite the Tories and UKIP collecting 49% of the vote between them they have to sit and watch as the ridiculous Ed Milliband, taking only 35% with Labour takes the chair at No 10 , supported by Alex Salmond. So two people who hate England are now in charge of it. This will not end well.
Football. Sunderland scrape to safety again. By two points this time!
Chelsea win the Premier League. Man City, Man Utd and surprisingly Liverpool make up the rest of the top four. Derby, Ipswich and Boro are Promoted, Derby through the play offs.
Cricket. Durham do okay again, making it to fourth in the CCC. England draw with Australia in the Ashes series.
Surely the world wakes up to the evil of militant Islam?
We'll see. Happy New year!
Happy New Year to anyone having a look. Good luck and God bless in 2015.
I come on here sometimes just to give a view on anything that is in the air, or maybe to ramble on about the continuing and ridiculously frustrating fortunes of SAFC, and of course those of the Durham and England cricket teams.
Well not even any of that tonight. Time is tight, although I am in with the whole crew tonight. So I thought I'd restrict myself to a few predictions, if only to test myself! And I'm returning to a few regular topics as well.
Politics. The awful state of affairs in the UK is set to continue with another hung parliament. No overall majority. The right vote is split, but despite the Tories and UKIP collecting 49% of the vote between them they have to sit and watch as the ridiculous Ed Milliband, taking only 35% with Labour takes the chair at No 10 , supported by Alex Salmond. So two people who hate England are now in charge of it. This will not end well.
Football. Sunderland scrape to safety again. By two points this time!
Chelsea win the Premier League. Man City, Man Utd and surprisingly Liverpool make up the rest of the top four. Derby, Ipswich and Boro are Promoted, Derby through the play offs.
Cricket. Durham do okay again, making it to fourth in the CCC. England draw with Australia in the Ashes series.
Surely the world wakes up to the evil of militant Islam?
We'll see. Happy New year!
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