So that was a bank holiday was it?

I can't say I noticed! Whatever happened to the British Bank Holiday?

Even in my lifetime, and no, it hasn't been that long, I recall these supposedly 'special days' being just that, special! A day when families and friends spent time together, fairs and fetes took place, we took to the roads for a day out or just relaxed, it was almost like another Sunday, a day when we felt we were 'allowed' to relax and have fun.

No longer it seems is any of that the case for a large number of people. I didn't have to work today but that was luck not judgment, many of my colleagues did, as did thousands of others working in retail and other service industries.

What has happened to the human ability to entertain itself? I know, I sound like an old git here but please, can't we find something to do just for one whole day that doesn't involve shopping?

Shopping is quoted as being the UK's most popular 'leisure activity'....... leisure activity my foot, there is damn all leisurely about it and it barely rates as an activity. What it is as a rule is a great deal of stress, aggravation and dissatisfaction on both sides of the fence and for numerous reasons, and it will never fail to amaze me that so many of those who actually manage to get the day off, can think of nothing better to do with it than shop!

There is barely anything to define a bank holiday as any different to any other day now and I'm probably as guilty as the next woman. PG was working, most of my friends were working and so, just like any other day I spent the majority of it here!

......but at least I wasn't hot and bothered and pushed and shoved in a faceless shopping mall somewhere, it could have been a lot worse! :o)