{"id":9052,"date":"2014-05-05T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alfiedog.me.uk\/?p=9052"},"modified":"2014-05-05T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T05:00:18","slug":"monday-5th-may-2014-of-course-it-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/05\/monday-5th-may-2014-of-course-it-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday 5th May 2014 – Of course it rains"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do English Bank Holidays have in common, apart from being Bank Holidays? Rain! To be honest calling them \u2018Bank\u2019 holiday seems a bit out dated. Banks are open on Saturdays in some places and near us some of them only open for half a day during the week. It\u2019s funny how one industry can give its name to something like a day off. In some countries they are more accurately known as Public Holiday although ironically many of the public still work, so maybe bank is nearer. It\u2019s even crazy here in England to call it \u2018The May Day Holiday\u2019 as May Day is the 1st<\/sup> of the month which was last Thursday, which was not a holiday. It reminds me of living in Belgium and my Master getting confused on which days were holidays and going to work and wondering why there were so few people around.<\/p>\n

My Mistress is aching from the swimming she has been doing. Now she knows how I was feeling the other week. I\u2019ve had a bit of a reprieve as Ari has needed it more the last couple of weeks, but I just know that I will ache again the next time I do go. It uses different muscles to walking, as my Mistress is finding out! I shall just say to her what she says to us \u2018It will do you good!\u2019 And that is as much sympathy as she is getting. She needs to do some weeding of the herb garden and says she is not looking forward to all the bending down. I\u2019d offer to help, but I have a nap to take just then. On the gardening front, whilst the parsnips seemed to take forever to come through, the carrots are through already and it only seems five minutes since we planted them. Hopefully they won\u2019t suffer the fate of last year\u2019s cauliflowers and broccoli!<\/p>\n

Alfie\u2019s Diary \u2013 the Book is available at Amazon UK –https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00583ZGSA<\/a><\/p>\n

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