Works and days

[shewhomust]

The Guardian has a new feature each Monday, running through some of the events of the coming week. Here's a clipping from last Monday's list:

I was baffled, at first, by the information that Wednesday was Labour Day. Labor Day we know - but that's at the other end of the year. April 29th is Labour Day? Since when?

Then I looked again, and realised that no, we weren't talking about April 29th, but about the other Wednesday, the one that falls between Thursday and Saturday - today, in fact, May 1st, la Fête du Travail.

Fair enough, then. Happy Labour Day, everybody!

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

A national Ed Balls Day?

Verily, the mind boggleth! :o)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was sufficiently intrigued to look it up. It's a Twitter thing, apparently (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/28/ed-balls-tweets-ed-balls). (Oddly, I can't now find the fuller and more recent Grauniad article I read this morning).

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

This makes me so glad I don't do Twitter!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

At least he was honest.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Hah. Makes one wonder, who wrote that Survey? Doesn't make one want to take part of either event, particularly, but always good to know when they are celebrated.