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November 30, 2005
St Andrew's Day
According to the informal poll in the Scotsman this morning, 97 percent of people think St Andrew’s Day should be a national holiday - and why not? Why are the politicians so timid when it comes to raising the status of Scotland’s national day?
I am more inclined to celebrate Robert Burns than an obscure Christian saint with no connection to Scotland - but there is plenty of room for all in the national pantheon.
We have only eight statutory bank holidays in Scotland. This is a relatively small number. Wikipedia has a list of national holidays by country, which can be difficult to interpret, however if I am right the French and the Irish have 10, the Italians 11 etc.
Wikipedia did not list national holidays in Scotland - i have remedied this.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/01/bankholidays
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Publicholidaysby_country
heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=656
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2325712005
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November 28, 2005
Holledge's 4th Law
If there is a hiatus, following a hiatus, that hiatus will be greater than the hiatus that preceded it.
Time to catch up. I have a huge amount of material to post. I will try to get at least some of it up.
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