Happy Birthday QE2 – lets all have a day off!
It’s a holiday today. Yet another one. We get so many here in New Zealand – I think it is an often overlooked benefit of moving here. I always found it slightly strange that we don’t celebrate The Queens Birthday back in the UK with a holiday – but move half way round the world and you get a day off for it.
Not that it isn’t celebrated back home – but the Trooping Of The Colour – while a nice bit of pomp – isn’t exactly giving us plebs a holiday like we get here.
In fact it seems that several Commonwealth countries get a day off for this – so I feel even more that as Brits we get a bit let down on this front. Oddly though – everywhere celebrates it on a different day. Oh to be Queen – several birthdays every year.
Nonetheless – it’s a day off work for people here, and also marks the official start of the Ski Season. Not that I go skiing. Although as it was actually snowing here in the Wairarapa yesterday – almost unheard of- it’s a timely if unwelcome reminder that winter is here.
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