lewist wrote:In Fife, when I was at school, the Council took no note of the religious thing at all. If Easter didn't fall in the school holidays, well then, you were at school on that Friday and Monday. It was only when I moved elsewhere as an adult that I became aware of the crazy way the spring holiday moved round, year by year.
It's the same up here Lewis, the Voar (spring holiday) And the Hairst (Autumn Holiday) Are set to meet the needs of the crofters.
Lambing time and harvest time respectively.
It's always amused me that 'Christians' don't question why the date of the 'crusi-fiction' and 'resurrection' are on different dates every year.
Tide comes in, tide goes out, we can't explain that!
Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers.