No... but I like your thinking.... actually I did my HNC at Luton... should have been an HND but some muppet crashed into my motorbike - he did a u-turn on a zebra xing. Nearly broke my neck and wrote the bike off. Missed my leg by an inch, he would have crushed my knee.
I think that the 1st of November was one of them (All Saints), the other 3 Christmas Day, Good Friday and the first of May. I don't think Boxing Day or New Years Day were, initially, public holidays, at least not officially.
Easter Monday, Whit Monday, Boxing Day and (initially) the first monday in August. I often have problems with the legal definition of public holidays as opposed to bank holidays (by statute). Also problems explaining the terms to foreigners who are puzzled by the term 'Bank Holiday' as if they were invented by the Nat. West.
Correct. The first Monday in August seems an odd one, but I guess it was put in to break the year up. Over to you.Time to go for the other 4
Cheers Frenchie. A swarm of what was seen flying over the channel on D Day ? Which was interpreted as an omen.Correct. The first Monday in August seems an odd one, but I guess it was put in to break the year up. Over to you.
Not aircraft Duggie. There may have been some aircraft around at the time but this was a living swarm of something which was seen as an omen of good luck. At that time of year they would have been flying in the opposite direction ie. from France.
Just about got that Duggie. The clue is that it was a swarm (as opposed to a flock).
Not midges Frenchie. My last clue about convergent evolution helps - this being where one species takes on some of the characteristics of a completely different species. My wife was very excited about seeing these for the first time this year, flitting between the lavender and the scarlet runner beans.
