Posted in Nationality, Scotland at 07:00 on 30 November 2013
Today is your other other National Day. (If you’re Scottish that is.)
St Andrew’s Day.
It is of course now more honoured in the breach as it is not a public holiday nor even – unlike in my young day – a school holiday.
I suppose 30th November isn’t a good time for a day off anyway; the daylight is too short and it’s liable to be considerably parky.
Posted in Modern Life Is Rubbish at 12:00 on 21 November 2012
Yesterday on my way to work, queued up in traffic, I happened to glance in a window. There was a Christmas tree in it. It was 8.45 so no lights on but still…. it was a Christmas tree.
I know the shops do up their windows and displays but that’s to drum up business. Plus they mostly have the decency to wait till Hallowee’en and Guy Fawkes Night are over. But a domestic Christma tree?
It’s only November – not even past St Andrew’s Day. It’s enough to bring out the Scrooge in anybody.
