General Chat

We always had a new dress for Whit Sylvia

Maybe Quebec follows French Bank Holidays

I remember always having new clothes for Whit Sunday :-)


I have a photograph from 1960 in the Whit Sunday Walk at my brother's church in a Manchester suburb ................. Mum, my sis-i-law and me. I think my father must have taken the photo.

My brother was walking elsewhere in the Walk, and the 3 girls were in the Sunday School section.


My mother died in March 1961 ................ which is how I know the date of that photo.


I know Whit Walks are still held in some areas in Lancashire

our name for Bank Holidays ..................

but we have Federal Stat Holidays, which usually (but not always) apply in every Province. Quebec is usually the province that doesn't fit in with these holidays :-)

and Provincial Stat holidays which apply only in a certain province


it's hard, and confusing, officially being a federation :-)

oh, thank you Sylvia.

Whitsun seems to have disappeared here. It was always celebrated six weeks after Easter.
I wonder if Monday's Bank Holiday has replaced it, but nobody calls it Whitsun anymore.
Maybe they do in religious circles.

Well - life is full of ups and downs, even for fish :-)

statutory holiday, like a bank holiday

What is a Stat Holiday Sylvia?

I don't want to make you feel worse Tec, but it is a myth that fish have short memories, they can remember for months

Linda ....... she is :-)


But celebrating May 24th is so entrenched in the Canadian psyche!


for many years, successive sovereigns' birthday was celebrated on May 24th, regardless of when it really was


The main reason now, of course, is it is our May weekend ................ the start of summer, the start of camping season, and the true start of gardening and farming season in most of Canada.

I didn't know it is Queen Victoria's birthday - she must be quite old now :-)

It is also Empire Day, no longer celebrated here, which is just as well since the Empire struck back :-D

I believe in certain parts of the Commonwealth they celebrate the day as something else.

don't worry ...........


fish have short memories :-)

yes, it took me some time to believe that ground nuts grew in the ground :-)

Odd, I thought Queen Victoria was dead :-S

I have traumatised the Clown Loach Sylvia - but there is no need to make me feel worse :-)

I could never understand why ground nuts were so called - until someone explained to me that they did actually grow in the ground. I really did think they grew in trees :-D

Did you know today was Queen Victoria's birthday? :-)


we had our Stat holiday last Monday to celebrate the event :-D

Hello Tec, and Linda!


My f-i-l once persuaded his sister-in-law that loofahs grew on trees ................. true!

So it was not hard to then convince her that spaghetti grew on trees :-D



poor little Clown Loach.

You've traumatised him :-)





edited to change sister to sis-i-l :-)

He will have to sleep rough till then among the plants.

When are you going away?

Poor fish will be so tired by then

I am hoping to get to a tropical fish shop next week, so they may have one.