Listening to that dick on talk ****e yesterday Adrian Durham, who was suggesting we had a bank holiday for Bobby Moore??? Totally ridiculous in my opinion..... But if you were to introduce a bank holiday, when would it be and for what? (ill do mine later as i am revising it )
Mine would be for King Alfred the Great and would be the Friday and Monday around the last weekend of October as he died on "the 26th Oct, see below. Could do with another bank holiday between Aug & Xmas. Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet "the Great", the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself "King of the Anglo-Saxons". Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser. A devout Christian, Alfred had a reputation as a learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education and improved his kingdom's legal system, military structure and his people's quality of life.
They should just give us the Friday in August before the August bank holiday, that'd make the weekend even better. No doubt, we'll get two taken off us soon, the Easter ones, that'll be replaced with Mohammed Loves Children Day and Allans Snackbar Day.
Watch out. They have friends in high places. They love luxury holidays & the Maddie fund might be dipping a bit low.
Sometime betwwen August and Xmas. Thats the longest stretch you have to work without a break. Say around Halloween. Either a Monday or a Friday so workers can make a long weekend with it.
St Georges Day would be an option but it sits between Easter & May Day so its not ideally positioned. Possibly Guy Fawkes Night????
Oct 31st. So you can f*ck off out the way of the little screaming sh*t machines asking for money or sweets. If we offered to do that we'd be f*cking locked up.
I've always thought that if a major party put into their manifesto that they would incorporate an extra bank holiday into the working year then they would win the election by a landslide.
No sorry, crumble. I could never vote for Alfred who was not called 'the Great until centuries after he died. He did defeat the Vikings under Guthrum, but in order to get them to accept the truce, he gave East Anglia to Guthrum, Essex to Anwynd and Oskytel, and all the land north of the Humber and the Dee to Halfdan - all Vikings! He did raise educational standards, and many of the other standards you speak of, but as 'King of the Saxons, he was a fake. I have Asser's 'Life of Alfred' on my bookshelf, but Asser was a member of Alfred's court and was more than a tad biased. Let's agree on the time of year for our Bank Holiday mate, but leave the subject aside. As a northerner, I could never vote for Alfred.
Ha ! I have a mate who has a couple of lovely, affectionate pets. One night, some twerp knocked on his door and asked a quid for the guy. This bozo didn't have a guy, so my mate asked where it was, and got the usual bozo-speak back - effin **** and all the trimmings. So my mate relented and asked the said bozo to wait till he got something for him. My mate returned with an eight foot boa constricter and said " Here you are mate. Whoosh! Gone!
That's the only reason i picked him, its the first date i came across that landed perfectly between Aug. and Xmas
