I missed all the Eurovision talk…. 😞

Morning

morning

Morning, happy father’s day!

we can still keep having it

@synthomat where is it Father's Day?

aaah I see, I thought it was international – it is to some degree but on totally different dates 😅

in germany it’s today, holiday

but it’s also ascension day, which seems to be a holiday in more countries

morning

Ascension = Hemelvart in Vlanderen - locals also take tomorrow off to make a long weekend. Usually a sweet deal but has less sugar this year.

of course in the UK we have more poetry in our souls. We have time off on Monday and we call it....

Late May Bank Holiday

aka Whitsun

er sorry, Whit Monday

I think you'll find it is "Spring bank holiday"

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Renaming Labour Day "Early May bank holiday" is political wrongness gone mad

ah well

it used to be just 'May Day' holiday when I was growing up

over here it's still called Dag van de Arbeid (Labour Day) and we need more of that now, am i rite

@ben.hammond I thought May Day was the first May bank holiday

and we don't celebrate Early May Bank Holiday on 1 May, it is just on the first Monday in May

and this year it was made into Victory in Europe Day (and only a few people thought of it as Victory over Europe Day)

yeah but (my part of Englandshire) referred to it as the May Day Holiday even though it mostly wasn't actually on the first

I'd assumed that was normal

deffo agree that MayDay and Whitsun are completely different holidays

calling it Whitsun just means you're posh 😉

ah the old scones - scons dilemma

indeed

I avoid most of this as people can't really tell if I'm posh or not, I just sound North American

In Liverpool and Yorkshire they thought I was American (and were confused), in London they didn't care, in Scotland they assume I'm Candian

and are confused