Anzac Day
April 26th 2007 06:07
Yesterday was Anzac Day
in New Zealand, which meant we had a day off work. I can remember when I was a child that everything closed up on Anzac Day and one of my family complaining that we all had to sit home doing nothing while the old soldiers went to the RSA rooms and drank themselves silly all day.
Well, things have changed. The old soldiers still go and drink themselves silly – along with their wives – but the rest of us are only ‘confined’ for the morning. In the afternoon everything is back to normal. And if poor old Anzac Day has gone that way, no doubt Good Friday will be next on the agenda – in fact it already is on some people’s agenda.
What is it about people these days? In the past we had whole weekends off, with shops shut completely. Now people seem to get in a panic if the shop is shut for a morning. One of my colleagues at work told me today that they went to the supermarket yesterday afternoon, and it was chocker. It’s the same on the Saturday of Easter weekend. You’d think the shops were closing for a month the way people spend up large.
We didn’t go out at all. We spent the day shifting the computer from the small room where we’re going to store most of our stuff while the house is rented out, into the bigger lounge. Then we moved the treadmill from the smaller lounge into the small room. (The computer will go back in there just before we leave.) Then we washed down the bathroom, from ceiling to floor, which was tiring enough – and then washed down the kitchen from ceiling to floor, which was even more tiring. Ended the day exhausted, but we achieved a great deal.
And so back to work today feeling a little weary.
Well, things have changed. The old soldiers still go and drink themselves silly – along with their wives – but the rest of us are only ‘confined’ for the morning. In the afternoon everything is back to normal. And if poor old Anzac Day has gone that way, no doubt Good Friday will be next on the agenda – in fact it already is on some people’s agenda.
What is it about people these days? In the past we had whole weekends off, with shops shut completely. Now people seem to get in a panic if the shop is shut for a morning. One of my colleagues at work told me today that they went to the supermarket yesterday afternoon, and it was chocker. It’s the same on the Saturday of Easter weekend. You’d think the shops were closing for a month the way people spend up large.
We didn’t go out at all. We spent the day shifting the computer from the small room where we’re going to store most of our stuff while the house is rented out, into the bigger lounge. Then we moved the treadmill from the smaller lounge into the small room. (The computer will go back in there just before we leave.) Then we washed down the bathroom, from ceiling to floor, which was tiring enough – and then washed down the kitchen from ceiling to floor, which was even more tiring. Ended the day exhausted, but we achieved a great deal.
And so back to work today feeling a little weary.
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