On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:04:10 -0400, Ken Butler <ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>In message <8qud5317i53nhunhsdcudncv3bll3kt26f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan Brand
>><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>
>>>But I thought you ran a post office, not a bank ...
>>>
>>Oh that life were that simple. Scotland loves to be different, so a
>>Scottish Bank holiday, and the days that banks are not open, are not the
>>same thing. That would be far too easy. Why? Because, about ten years
>>ago, the Scottish banks decided that it was in their interests to take
>>the same holidays as the other British banks, so they do, but that does
>>not mean that the Scottish bank holidays are Scottish Bank holidays.
>>Glad you asked?
>
>Ecstatic. I mean, it's im****tant to know this kind of thing.
While I'm perfectly happy to cram more useless information into my
forgettery, I'm nowhere near as pleased as Ken is.
>So does that mean that Scottish post offices close on Scottish bank
>holidays, or on some other list of days of their own devising?
>
>Ken, who discovered that Reykjavik buses run on Icelandic bank holidays,
>just not early in the morning.
Good boys aren't wandering around strange towns in the early hours.
--
AlanB, off-day girl
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