Re: Food Checkout Week

In article <A5kuj.9449$XI.6715@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Jette) wrote:

> Christmas Day didn't become a Bank or Public holiday in Scotland 
> until the 1960s - I remember my Dad having to go to work in the 
> ****pyards on Xmas day when I was little.
> 
> Boxing Day only became a Bank Holiday very recently.

New Year's day is a fairly recent addition in England, I recall.

My father used to tell a story about when we moved up north, between
Christmas 1957 and New Year 1958.  We moved on the weekend and he was
so knackered getting the new house in order that it was several days
before he got into work, but he was expected to work New Year's day.