Autumn Break

[wiseheart]

Drat, where's everybody? I finally got home from a week of slave labour, and the internet all around me is dead. :(

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[ooxc.livejournal.com]

I'm told that people are holding Hallows' Eve parties a night early, because it's Saturday, and combining with fireworks, because the 5th isn't Saturday. As ljuserRichenda once said, in the person of ljusersharedkitty, "I wish the Saturdays would go away".

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I like Saturdays, myself. It means I'll still have one more day before returning to work. Actually, I like Friday afternoons best. Then I can look forward to 2 free days, which is nice.

Fireworks, eh? What is on the 5th?

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

Guy Fawkes Day.
As you see, I'm around too - but I wasn't for most of this week, for reasons totally unrelated to Halloween.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, is it? I've learned about the event itself but never marked the day for myself.

Nice to have you back. My spontaneous disappearances rarely have anything to do with the holidays, either. Work just tends to eat one, doesn't it?

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

In the UK, it's a reprehensible annual tradition of burning the effigy of a man who died in a torture chamber; admittedly, he was caught with explosives on the premises where the monarch would be meeting the politicians of the day - so the effigy-burning was probably an effective way of reminding the populace that it's a bad idea to be caught near a monarch with explosives.
Our family tradition in the 1950s, because my birthday was during half-term, was to postpone the party until the 5th, when we had my birthday party with bonfire and fireworks, but without effigy

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It seems to have a general popularity, burning the effigies of unlikeable persons, doesn't it? Every country seems to have its bad guy to burn... and the subject changes with political changes.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

Oh they certainly have their use, do Saturdays - it's just that we both worked in environment that didn't give Saturdays off work - and the cat whose care we shared had been used to living in a remote area, where Saturdays didn't impinge