Monday, 29 December 2025
Post-Christmas Sales
I used to go into work on the weekdays between Christmas and New Year. The roads in were quiet and there wasn't much routine work, leaving plenty of time to catch up on outstanding odds and ends. I almost miss that now that we are retired, but not enough to dwell on the memory for more than a few seconds.
Today it's cold, grey and dull in our corner of Derbyshire, so we trundled off to a local shopping centre this morning. Busier than we expected, but we managed a coffee and a wander round the stores stuffed with post-Christmas 'bargains'.
By the time we left, the main car park was crammed and the large overflow area had more cars in it than we've ever seen before. This of course is one reason why the roads weren't busy when I went into work on days like this.
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When I worked at a laboratory in the 1970s half the staff were English and half were Scots. So half wanted Christmas and half wanted New Year as Bank Holidays. The Director had a poll and the staff voted for both Christmas and New Year and also to add Easter Bank Holiday so that the Lab could be closed for maintenance in the days betwen the two.
Since we were a Met Station someone had to go in to read the thermometers, etc each morning and evening. I always used to volunteer for this duty as I gave me days off in lieu later in the year in the better weather. I also had to keep an eye on long term experiments to see that nothing catastrophic happened.
As you said the roads were always more empty than usual.
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