Re: afba website

On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:45:07 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>In message <8qud5317i53nhunhsdcudncv3bll3kt26f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Alan Brand 
><alan.brandATsymp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>On Fri, 25 May 2007 08:07:15 +0100, Geep <Geep@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>wrote:
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>>>Tuesday?  AND Monday, I suppose?  Oh well, I don't care if the weather
>>>goes haywire this weekend, as it is not a bank/public holiday in the
>>>land of the heathen.
>>
>>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?


Not as strange as why Brits celebrate the Queen's birthday in June???
Not sunny enough in April?

KS