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shewhomust) wrote2020-07-11 08:17 pm
shewhomust) wrote2020-07-11 08:17 pm
The Second Saturday in July
It is the second Saturday in July. This is also the name the Durham Miners' Association is using for the not-the-Gala virtual event they are holding today, since the Gala itself is another of the events that will not be happening this year. New readers start here ...
Two doors down, there are students sitting on the patio. Student landlords charge rent for something like 50 weeks of the year, so they have every right to be in residence, but mostly they choose not to do that: they stay around for the post-exam partying in early June, then vanish. Those who are graduating return in early July for the ceremony, but most of our neighbours seem to be second years (and therefore not graduatuing). Either way, you don't tend to see students in town on Gala Day.
Yet another way in which this year is exceptional: the university went online, and sent the students home in March, and most of them (those who could do home) did. Once lockdown began to ease, they started to return, and every night has been party night ever since.durham_rambler suggests that they have looked at the complications of travel and decided that, if they must staycation, they might as well staycation in a house for which they are already paying rent. Which is reasonable enough.
Two doors down, there are students sitting on the patio. Student landlords charge rent for something like 50 weeks of the year, so they have every right to be in residence, but mostly they choose not to do that: they stay around for the post-exam partying in early June, then vanish. Those who are graduating return in early July for the ceremony, but most of our neighbours seem to be second years (and therefore not graduatuing). Either way, you don't tend to see students in town on Gala Day.
Yet another way in which this year is exceptional: the university went online, and sent the students home in March, and most of them (those who could do home) did. Once lockdown began to ease, they started to return, and every night has been party night ever since.
durham_rambler suggests that they have looked at the complications of travel and decided that, if they must staycation, they might as well staycation in a house for which they are already paying rent. Which is reasonable enough.
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Not that I'm convinced dispersing them was the right thing to do in the first place ...