About Boxing Day...

[fajrdrako]

I was just looking closely at the calendar I'm using for writing my appointments and such - it's pictures of Ireland but it was published in Korea. The company is Browntrout.

So, looking at Boxing Day, I see that it says the day is Zweiter Weihnachtstag in Germany, Kwanzaa in the US, St. Stephen's Day in Ireland and Luxembourg, and Bank Holiday in the UK.

Bank Holiday? I asked myself. It's Boxing Day! Funny they should call it by the generic name "Bank Holiday".

Then I see that the next day, Dec. 27, is designated Boxing Day and L'après-Noël in Canada.

No, no, really, Boxing Day is the day after Christmas. We get two days off work for Christmas and Boxing Day, and if they fall on a weekend, the next weekday becomes the day off work. But that doesn't make the 27th into Boxing Day, it's a day off work because Christmas fell on a Sunday. Don't go messing with my holidays!

Boxing Day is a favourite. Second best holiday ever.

I see also, from the same calendar, that Dec. 28 is Proclamation Day in South Africa and Australia. Cool. I never heard of that.

Calendars can be almost as much fun as atlases.