Re: Easter Bank Holiday

"Peter Ashby" <pashby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Norman Wells <norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you want to separate the bank holiday weekend from when the Pope with
his
astrolabe decides Easter should be, vote for the change at:

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/easterdate/

Not only will moving it to the second weekend in April be a poke in the
eye
for Christian influence over the calendar, but it's a sensible move to
put
it in the middle of a school holiday without disrupting term lengths and
encouraging absenteeism for the remainder of the week. It might also be
a
bit warmer.

Go on, do it now. You know it makes sense.

And you'll be joining two professors of philosophy as well as Polly
Toynbee.

I'm not sure that would work North of the Border, we have different
school terms from you. So perhaps we will have to celebrate Easter at a
different time?

School holidays here in France aren't so closely linked to Easter - there
are regional differences in dates, the regions rotating each year, in fact
my daughter's hols don't start for another couple of weeks. Three cheers for
secularism ...

pga


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