God Bless God

Easter’s a bit of a strange religious festival. Not half as good as Christmas where people give you loads of stuff that you want, and some stuff that you don’t want, and everywhere you go people offer you cans of cider and bottles of wine. I suppose it was better when you were a kid when you got to eat all the chocolate that you could until you got sick all over your new yellow jumper.

It also features that most rotten of days – the ironically named Good Friday – when all the pubs are shut and people take to drinking crates of cheap Polish lager in their house while watching Ben Hur.

But this year, thanks to St. Patricks day, Easter has finally come good. Because of the very shakey foundations on which the Catholic Church’s calender is built, no one really knows when exactly Easter is going to be (except for your Ma, of course). I think it has something to do with the moon.

As you may have heard, we have a slight ’snafu’ with St. Patricks Day v Easter this year, with some utterly fantastic consequences.

Paddy’s day is usually the 17th of March (unless the farmers are up to their old shenanigans again and infecting the country with foot and mouth disease again) but this year it’s been moved to Saturday the 15th as it clashes with the beginning of Holy Week. That’ll keep the pubs happy, it’s a Saturday. But the Public Holiday will remain on the 17th – the Monday. Bearing in mind that the following Friday – the 21st – will be the aforementioned ‘Good’ Friday, and the following Monday  – the 24th – also being Easter Monday, OneForTheRoad has devised a plan.

Take the 18th, 19th and 20th off work. Annual leave, sick days, whatever.

Then you’ll be able to enjoy the 14th – 25th totally work free (26th if you’re a Civil Servant). That’s ELEVEN MOTHERFUCKING DAYS straight!  For the price of 3!

Loaves and fucking fishes, wha?

~ by oftroad on January 4, 2008.