On Your Marks, Get Set

I am worse than the Grinch, I am not a fan of Christmas, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Valentines Day and Easter. To me personally they are over commercialised, money grabbing entities. They hold no meaning to what they did 30 to 40 years ago. I always had endless arguments with the ex wife at Christmas, she was all sunshine, rainbows and unicorns and put us in debt at that time of year. To me it is all just another day of the week, I preferred being at work at Christmas than being at home. I am very much that things are black and white. It was the same with my Birthday, just the same muck different year, another day I wasn’t bothered about. I guess it is a good idea that I am on my own with no family or friends, I deserve to be alone and don’t deserve to be loved.

It's getting dark by 21:00 now, it would be better a couple of weeks earlier for outdoors play in the evening. It gets darrk even earlier down south, as I'm sure you know.

That's nearly 3 weeks later than schools in my area. They came off on the 03rd of July.

I remember, as a teenager, getting my dad to stand in front of the "turn left" sign which has the arrow at waist height

I thought I was being so original 😆 🙄

I am aware of this, as we still say the tattie holidays for the ones in the autumn. I was merely reflecting how the best of the summer is over by now, and I can't imagine kids these days could put their phone down long enough to harvest crops.

We appear to have Filipinos doing that here, last season it was Africans.

You're welcome to it, I prefer the normal mixed weather we get up here, but I know that those coming after me will eventually end up with your summer sauna weather.