It is, perhaps, a small consolation in the daily grind that is life but going to work next week should be a wee bit less stressful than normal. Going to the office that is - once I get there it will be as manic as ever. But the daily commute through Edinburgh's ever increasing network of roadworks, diversions and general mayhem should be a wee bit easier for one particular reason - the school holidays have started.
Travelling, as I do, on public transport it will be a considerable relief not having to put up with snotty-nosed, screaming, hugely irritating kids whose meaning for existence appears to be to make as much noise and cause as much annoyance to the rest of us as possible. Friday was already much quieter, probably because as well as the brats - sorry, loveable children - starting their six weeks away from school it marked the beginning of the Edinburgh Trades Fortnight. This is a tradition, as with other Scottish cities, where trades people - and, indeed non-trades workers - take a fortnight off from work to enjoy the summer. So my journey to work next week should be quicker than it usually is as long as the normally reliable Lothian Buses keep to their timetables and not decide to leave five minutes early...
But we live in an age where no one appears to want to stand still and enjoy the moment. As I passed through the Cameron Toll Shopping Centre on the way to work last week, BHS clothes shop had a giant poster on its display window which screamed BACK TO SCHOOL!
Back to school? The blighters hadn't even began their holidays yet! Where did the summer go? On the first day of July, I received my copy of the excellent FourFourTwo football magazine - the August edition. What happened to July? Ah, I remember - I got that edition in June. A quick flick through the latest issue tells me the September edition will be on sale on 1 August.
September? Three months before Christmas...Where the hell did 2009 go???
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3 comments:
Just 6 more weeks before the preseason of REAL football begins!!!
You can say that again. Isnt football a year round activity now?
I hate the school holidays! The brats are everywhere, spoiling life for normal people. Late night screaming and shouting, gatherings of yobs, filling the shops to 'browse,' and generally not being kept in all day where they belong!
Can they not just send them all to Majorca for two months?
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