Cellar Scribblings

[Katie77]

Nope.  Catholic Schools are closed half day Thursday and all day Friday, but most business are not closed those days.

My dept. will let us leave early on Friday.

Oh, Im really surprised at that......I am not a catholic, but Good Friday has always been, to me, the holiest of the Easter Days.

Even shops that are usually open every day of the week, close on Good Friday here, and its only been the last few years that sporting events were played on Good Friday.

[Brokeback_Dev]

Hey there Sue and Chuck.  Ive been reading the last page about Holidays.  Well Im not Catholic.  Im Protestant and I think Easter is the holiest of all days.  If I dont go to church all year, I try to make it there on Easter Sunday.

[CellarDweller]

Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!

It's Friday!   Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[Katie77]

Morning Chucky.....have a good day, I hope it goes quick, then you can be on your way...

[ZK]

Hey Cover Boy
I'm with Katie, I can't believe you don't get more holidays at Easter, we get both Friday and Monday off. Alll shops are closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Our holidays are
New Years Day and the day after
Waitangi/NZ Day
Anzac Day
Easter as above
Queens Birthday (June)
Labour Day (October)
My Cities aniversary day
Christmas (all shops closed)
Boxing Day (Shops are open cause its SALE time)

[Kelda]

Hey Cover Boy
I'm with Katie, I can't believe you don't get more holidays at Easter, we get both Friday and Monday off. Alll shops are closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Our holidays are
New Years Day and the day after
Waitangi/NZ Day
Anzac Day
Easter as above
Queens Birthday (June)
Labour Day (October)
My Cities aniversary day
Christmas (all shops closed)
Boxing Day (Shops are open cause its SALE time)

We get easter Fri/Monday too!

So thats 2

then we get

Jan 1 & 2
Dec 25 & 26
Nov 1 (St Andrews Day)
3 May Days... (one the queen's official birthday)
1.5 days in September

[CellarDweller]

I like reading about all the different holidays everyone has.

very cool!

[Jeff Wrangler]

Anzac Day

Isn't that sort of like Veterans' Day or Memorial Day in the U.S.? Something to do with World War I?

[Katie77]

ANZAC Day.....25th April.....is the anniversary of the first landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipolli in 1915.

ANZAC.....means  Australian New Zealand Army Corp......

Anzac day is always celebrated on 25th April, regardless of what day of the week it falls on.  People gather at war memorials at dawn to attend services, and then later in the day Vets march in the streets of towns and cities all over Australia and New Zealand.

The significance of the dawn service, is that the Gallipolli invasion took place at dawn.

Its ironic that we celebrate that invasion because it was not a "win" for us, quite the opposite, it was a brutal ambush of our troops and loss of life was horrific.

Thousands of Austrlians make the pilgrimage to Gallipolli every year, to commemorate the dawn service, something very poignant and life changing.


I often attend the local  dawn service with my son, who wears the medals of his grandfater every year. One in particular I remember, standing at the memorial one cold April morning, very sombre and quiet, and a kookaburra (an Australian native bird) landed in a tree nearby, and started its distinct loud call, as if giving its own memorial to the fallen. I thought how uniquely Australian it was, and was bursting with pride.

[CellarDweller]

Hiya friends!

some new pics of Blaze for y'all.


A friend of my mother told her she thinks Blaze is part Angora, but the only part that is Angora is his tail.