Apparently it was a popular date in the days before paid leave as one didn't have to miss work for a wedding. (I think it was the Church Times that has had some correspondence about mass Christmas weddings recently.)
Apparently it was a popular date in the days before paid leave as one didn't have to miss work for a wedding. (I think it was the Church Times that has had some correspondence about mass Christmas weddings recently.)
Happy anniversary
Yes, doing some ancestry research some years ago, I thought it was very romantic that quite a few of my agricultural labourer ancestors got married on Christmas Day. That is, until I read later that that was the only day guaranteed off with the boss’s permission and without loss of pay!
Christmas Day wasn't actually a public holiday in Scotland until the mid-1950s.
My parents (and my in-laws) got married near the end of March: I understand it was something to do with the tax year running from the 5th of April and how long you'd be taxed as a married man.
One of my local heroines got married on Christmas Day 1884. She was the headmistress of a public elementary school. She gave the school a discretionary Christmas Day holiday, wrote to her employers, the School Board, informing them of her forthcoming marriage on Christmas Eve, got married on Christmas Day, and was back at her desk on Boxing Day.
On 26th Dec she wrote in the school log book "“Work continuing as usual according to timetable. School closed yesterday on occasion of Headmistress’ marriage.”
Happy belated birthday, Firenze...and to the rest of the Birthday Quartet. Rossweisse is one of the quartet and I hope she had a happy, pain-free celebration in Heaven!
We used to have five birthdays in February, but now just two; we now have two "in memoriam" days, as my brother-in-law and my father both died within days of their birthdays - my b-i-l the day after his, and my father a week after his.
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the mag 6.3 quake that flattened 80% of the CBD here in Christchurch and killed 185 people. Thousands were injured. I intend getting up early so I can put a bunch of white roses in a road cone, which is one of the informal ways we mark the anniversaries. There will be a civic gathering at the earthquake memorial that will be livestreamed so family members of international students can take part. Many of those who died were in one building where there was an International Language School.
It's weird - in some ways it feels like it was a long time ago, in others it feels like it was only last year. I remember being surprised that the seasons and the phases of the moon continued on their usual way, when so much else had changed. Also the over 10,000 aftershocks and related earthquakes that continued that year made life challenging.
I also remember with gratitude the support I got from various Shipmates. Thank-you all.
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Happy anniversary
Yes, doing some ancestry research some years ago, I thought it was very romantic that quite a few of my agricultural labourer ancestors got married on Christmas Day. That is, until I read later that that was the only day guaranteed off with the boss’s permission and without loss of pay!
My parents (and my in-laws) got married near the end of March: I understand it was something to do with the tax year running from the 5th of April and how long you'd be taxed as a married man.
One of my local heroines got married on Christmas Day 1884. She was the headmistress of a public elementary school. She gave the school a discretionary Christmas Day holiday, wrote to her employers, the School Board, informing them of her forthcoming marriage on Christmas Eve, got married on Christmas Day, and was back at her desk on Boxing Day.
On 26th Dec she wrote in the school log book "“Work continuing as usual according to timetable. School closed yesterday on occasion of Headmistress’ marriage.”
Congrats on 54 years of marriage, @Graven Image
A bit late with greetings, young man, but happen to have just been reminded elsewhere that old engineers never die; they just lose their bearings...
Today 5 minutes of Polish plumber seems to have sorted the boiler (here's hoping it stays sorted).
On a lighter note, Happy Birthday to Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! - 58 today.
Another on the 6th? Clearly a good man - I took over where he left off!
RIP, R, who was probably the nicest man on the planet.
It's weird - in some ways it feels like it was a long time ago, in others it feels like it was only last year. I remember being surprised that the seasons and the phases of the moon continued on their usual way, when so much else had changed. Also the over 10,000 aftershocks and related earthquakes that continued that year made life challenging.
I also remember with gratitude the support I got from various Shipmates. Thank-you all.