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I’m aware of all that Wit, but thanks all the same
I may be a secularist and agnostic but nonetheless out of respect for the theists in the TRF community anything more than a mild and jocular retort today, of all days, does not seem appropriate
Surely not more secular cart-before-the-horse guff – "we’ll have the holiday and the calendar, but not the reasons for them"
Didn’t I (and Paulostermeyer) make it rather clear above that the "holiday" and the "reason" mean zilch, and that they are no more than a mild annoyance. My personal ‘reasons for a holiday’ (Perth in April etc) were mentioned too
As for the calendar, well I celebrate (in a non-preachy, wishy-washy, quiet manner) the Winter Solstice – the return of the Sun – as New Year’s Eve, and would be mildly chuffed if there were to be a Gregorian-type revolution making December 22nd January 1st (we would still need Leap Years though
)Other than that, dates in a (any) calendar and days in a (any) week just add structure to one’s life and help one to function in a (any) society
May your God go with you
There was the manifestation of a Betty’s of Harrogate Easter Egg at my breakfast table this morning
There was the manifestation of a Betty’s of Harrogate Easter Egg at my breakfast table this morning
Now if there is such a place as heaven then Betty’s must be a prime candidate
There was the manifestation of a Betty’s of Harrogate Easter Egg at my breakfast table this morning
Now if there is such a place as heaven then Betty’s must be a prime candidate
The Betty’s in York is even better. It always makes our day if Alan, the long-serving manager of more than 20 years, is working.
He makes us smile as he scurries about in an eccentric sort of way before telling customers when he shows them to their table: "Today, we’re recommending the warm summer tart, very nice with clotted cream and Earl Grey tea."As it ‘appens Crusty our
(my!)
egg was bought in York Bettys, which I’d agree is the equal of Harrogate’s original. Have you been in Little Bettys, nearby in Stonegate?
All their Tearooms are a heavenly/nirvanic/asgardian experience. Six in all: the three mentioned, and at Northallerton, Ilkley and Harlow Carr Gardens (Harrogate)
Like all indulgences, best savoured sparingly
things may come, things may go, but the queues at Bettys go on forever
Certainly have been to Little Bettys, Drone. My girlfriend always insists on buying a cake to take home. Haven’t been for ages, sadly. Haven’t been to any of the other tearooms.
The only bad thing an insufferable pedant like me can say about Bettys is that I wish they would put an apostrophe in Bettys. I have just instinctively written Betty’s in the first line and then had to go back and remove it because I know that they spell it without the apostophe and so it must be right, er, right?
Same with Morrisons. I hate it. At least Sainsbury’s keep my pedantic rage at bay. I once wrote McDonald’s in a public document (which is how the fast food chain actually spells it) and some even more self-righteous so-and-so took great pleasure in removing the apostrophe. Yes, you’re right, life is too short and I should get a life. At least I admit it…. I’m an apostrophic pedant too. Infact I edited my last post as I wrote Betty’s three times, but really can’t bring myself to edit Betty’s of Harrogate in my first post. Perhaps as that is the generic name covering all six outlets it should be Bettys’ of Harrogate anyway 
On a slightly pedantic note Good Friday, like Christmas Day, is not a Bank Holiday, it is a public holiday. I really can’t see a reason for having racing on Good Friday. Why not let people have a day off so they can be with their families ? We already have less public holidays than all other major nations. We should keep public holidays and people should be paid a premium for working on them. A lot of employers are ripping people off by including them in their annual leave entitlement as their is statutory right for employees not working them. We are even getting some unsrupulous employers not giving employees an extra day off this year for the jubilee.
:) I’m an apostrophic pedant too.
Apostrophe’s? God, me too. Theirs no way English speaker’s should make such mistake’s. Your probably thinking Im being pedantic as well, but Im not. People should simply take they’re time to learn the appropriate positioning’s of all such punctuation.
Although sometime’s they’re’s many a slip twixt cup and lip.
Your’s,
Mike.
It’s compulsory, of course, if you’re a greengrocer or a market trader, to slip in extra apostrophes in apple’s, banana’s, potatoe’s etc.
Reminds me of dear old Keith Waterhouse’s columns in the Daily Mail, featuring the Asssociation for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe.
Not to mention ex-teacher John Richards, of Boston, Lincolnshire, and his similar campaign.
Don’t get me started on Big Buck’s…..or Bench Warrent instead of Warrant.<!– m –>http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse-ra … t7DaysNews<!– m –>
Progress? Heresy? Is nothing sacred any more? Or does racing have to move with the times?
Long overdue – my thoughts on the matter.
http://osterbeast.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/bad-friday.html
Someone said on ATR the other day if racing happens on Good Friday the traditional open days to the public couldn’t happen plus this day is day off for stable staff to be with their families.
You’ve got to think of the greater good rather than a tiny minority steveh31, do stable staff never have a day off apart from Good Friday?
Someone said on ATR the other day if racing happens on Good Friday the traditional open days to the public couldn’t happen plus this day is day off for stable staff to be with their families.
Stable staff still have to work Good Friday – racing or not – or do the horses feed and exercise themselves?
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I have just instinctively written Betty’s in the first line and then had to go back and remove it because I know that they spell it without the apostophe and so it must be right, er, right? 
Yes, you’re right, life is too short and I should get a life. At least I admit it…. 
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