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Hazel
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 Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject: New Year |
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I hope everyone survived Hogamany and is ready for billions of blessings in 2006. It can only get better. Everybody together --  Hazel
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Abieuan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:41 am Post subject: |
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The partying hasn't stopped here yet Hazel,
A' the best for a guid New Year    |
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Hazel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: partying |
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| Abieuan wrote: | The partying hasn't stopped here yet Hazel,
A' the best for a guid New Year |
I know. Did you see my note about the calendar? You all get an extra holiday up there.
Have fun. Hazel |
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Abieuan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Did you see my note about the calendar? You all get an extra holiday up there. |
Yes, but what we gain today we will lose another time.
I don't think we get any more holidays than the rest of the UK, England and Wales will have a holiday that we don't get (in August i think).
Still, i'd rather have it this way, it is important to me to maintain the tradition of New Year being a major celebration in Scotland.
Sadly, however, i think it is in decline due to our television ect being controlled by and geared towards England, where Christmas is the main thing.
Before WWII Christmas was not a big occasion in Scotland, with many workers only getting a half-day off, whereas at New Year many businesses shut down for a week! |
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Hazel
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:55 am Post subject: holidays |
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| Abieuan wrote: | | Quote: | | Did you see my note about the calendar? You all get an extra holiday up there. |
Yes, but what we gain today we will lose another time.
I don't think we get any more holidays than the rest of the UK, England and Wales will have a holiday that we don't get (in August i think).
Still, i'd rather have it this way, it is important to me to maintain the tradition of New Year being a major celebration in Scotland.
Sadly, however, i think it is in decline due to our television ect being controlled by and geared towards England, where Christmas is the main thing.
Before WWII Christmas was not a big occasion in Scotland, with many workers only getting a half-day off, whereas at New Year many businesses shut down for a week! |
If I am not mistaken, I read in a BBC newsletter last year that the department stores were open on Christmas Day. There was a protest in Scotland to close these stores on Christmas Day but the owners said it was their biggest day of the year. I find that so hard to imagine. Everyone out shopping on Christmas Day?
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Abieuan
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| Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I read in a BBC newsletter last year that the department stores were open on Christmas Day. There was a protest in Scotland to close these stores on Christmas Day but the owners said it was their biggest day of the year. |
I had not heard of this, but it doesn't surprise me that some large stores were open, the taditional "January Sales" have started on Boxing Day for a few years now.
Everything is so commercial now it makes me puke, Christmas is for Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but everything now is just another "retail opportunity".
I guess the shops must have been open in the cities, everything was closed here in my wee toun. |
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azzuri
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I'm just thankful the chinese/indian takeaways stay open for most of the time since otherwise I wouldn't have eaten!
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