Holidays again

The country was well suited for agriculture and grazing, but the population — a very queer mixture of races — was indolent, and more given to keeping holidays and festivals than to honest labour. Most of them were unintelligent; those who were intelligent made their living out of those who weren’t, a method of subsistence satisfactory to the individual, but adding little to the aggregate of national wealth.

Anthony Hope - A Man of Mark (1890)

We've whizzed off the the south coast for a couple of weeks, although the whizzing was decidedly intermittent on the M5. Current plan is to do quite a lot of loafing about so we'll see how it goes. Blogging could be patchy, which means more patchy than usual.