No Association Whatsoever Thread

[Bryn]

Am I absolutely the only living human being in the entire UK and beyond who thought today was a Bank Holiday (first Monday in August)? If so, I shall accept the accolade but I rearranged my plans on the basis of this misconception

You are far from alone. No one in Scotland with be banking in person today.

[french frank]

You are for from alone. No one in Scotland with be banking in person today.

Oh, just in England, then. Wasn't the August Bank Holiday always on the first Monday, at least until 1952?

[Bryn]

Oh, just in England, then. Wasn't the August Bank Holiday always on the first Monday, at least until 1952?

England and Wales have their Summer Bank Holiday on the last Monday in August and have done as long as I can remember. However, I now see that it was the first Monday in August throughout the UK until 1965, when a trial change to the last Monday in August was introduced. The change became permanent in 1971, but Scotland retains the earlier date.

[Serial_Apologist]

Am I absolutely the only living human being in the entire UK and beyond who thought today was a Bank Holiday (first Monday in August)? If so, I shall accept the accolade but I rearranged my plans on the basis of this misconception

As already noted, it tends to the the last week in August - by which time autumn is already rearing its head; but I can understand that you might have thought it already had!

[eighthobstruction]

....stung by a wasp....sea front {near Dodgems}...Weston Super Mare ,,,,,Bank Holiday 1959....

[eighthobstruction]

They don't come to us kicking and singing....on a....never ending roller-coaster you can't get off....

[french frank]

As already noted, it tends to the the last week in August - by which time autumn is already rearing its head; but I can understand that you might have thought it already had!

Vendicata!

"Although the Late Summer Bank Holiday, also known as the August Bank Holiday, was originally celebrated on the first Monday in August, it was later moved to the last Monday in August in the 1970s as part of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act of 1971."

So only 50 years out of date

[johncorrigan]

You are far from alone. No one in Scotland with be banking in person today.

...and I couldn't buy a stamp in Kirriemuir today either.

[Serial_Apologist]

I cannot but help wondering if by making large-size Marigold (or other brands of non-permeable) gloves pretty well impossible to find in the shops, an assumption is being made that women make up a majority of those who use them.

[oddoneout]

I cannot but help wondering if by making large-size Marigold (or other brands of non-permeable) gloves pretty well impossible to find in the shops, an assumption is being made that women make up a majority of those who use them.

It's balanced out elsewhere by the apparent assumption that it's mostly men who garden, so most of the more useful gloves are large size only.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's balanced out elsewhere by the apparent assumption that it's mostly men who garden, so most of the more useful gloves are large size only.

That hadn't occurred to me, but it doesn't surprise me at all.

Something that does now occur to me is that having to wear medium-sized gloves on my not even particularly large hands when doing the washing tends to lead to them splitting more quickly than the large ones I used to be able to get with no difficulty, thereby increasing the turnover and hence profits from sales for said product.

[gradus]

That's odd, I've always thought the opposite, that garden gloves are almost always for a smaller hand. Mind you my large-ish (not quite Rachmaninov-sized) mits have become somewhat gnarled over the years and may be unrepresentative.

[eighthobstruction]

The amount of river water now dammed up as lakes by humans....has slowed the rotation of the earth....

[oddoneout]

That's odd, I've always thought the opposite, that garden gloves are almost always for a smaller hand. Mind you my large-ish (not quite Rachmaninov-sized) mits have become somewhat gnarled over the years and may be unrepresentative.

The situation has improved in recent years as retailers have caught on to the market for women gardeners, but that doesn't necessarily follow through to gloves for those who don't need large, but don't want the ditsy prints or pink that a smaller size too often comes in! It also doesn't address the need for something a bit more useful for serious work than floral cotton gloves for those who need a smaller size - to tackle the pruning for instance.
At work we have disposable gloves in a variety of sizes for mucky jobs and it's notable that there's not nearly as much of a straightforward gender split between who uses medium and who has large as might be expected, although admittedly the fact that they are (mostly) fairly stretchy blurs things somewhat. A tiresome feature of the ordering process(local government procurement - need I say more?) is that it has to be as a mixed box, as that's the way the permitted supplier provides them usually. In order to keep up with the demand for medium size that means ending up with ever increasing quantities of packs of small, which no-one can use, and very large which almost no-one needs. Ironically Covid related supply constraints meant that it was much easier to get single size boxes, as the rules about allowed suppliers went out the window.

[Serial_Apologist]

The amount of river water now dammed up as lakes by humans....has slowed the rotation of the earth....

Dam nation!