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Originally Posted by AitchDee
I live in West Dorset, England (Thomas Hardy country). Today is a national holiday - called a 'Bank Holiday'. Like so much over here we do old fashioned things and use old terminology. There's also a custom over here for it normally to rain on holidays. The tradition was respected, of course.
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As a boy I lived with an aunt & uncle in Netherbury. So being from London I experienced first hand what it was like to live Far from the Madding Crowd.
These days I assume it's oft called a Banksters Holiday. The Bank Holiday term demonstrates the exalted (unreserved ??) regard in which bankers are held in the UK. Another country that has Bank Holidays (apart from Ireland) is Switzerland.
They're more prosaic down here, they give some of us a day off to go to the races.
BR