To HATE Easter Sunday!

[ElseaStars]

Sorry I know I'm probably being unreasonable but why is EVERYWHERE closed?! I really hate Easter. (To me it's a a day for kids and religious people)

Timetoask of course there is more to life than shopping but that's no reason to deprive everyone of the choice to shop or not. Nobody is suggesting rounding customers up and forcing them into the shops!

Yanbu. Rain with sunny spells they said. All I have seen is rain.

Where did it rain today?

rained till about 4pm in hove

It started to rain in London during the morning and carried on most of the day.

Nearly all day in London.

Here Bunbaker - round about East Midlands way
Anywhere else ?!

We've had the shittest day ever but it's more to do with the rain than it being Easter Sunday . But yh shit 1 here aswel

It came over a bit dull at one point,but no rain on East Yorkshire coast! All our (seaside) town's smaller shops were open,even Argos (Where my daughter works weekends), and the town was packed when I picked her up at 1:30. The rest of us just chilled out at home.

Perfect day. Forgot Mass. Didn't notice closed shops.

Gym, easter egg hunt, restaurant, champagne, Nigella's Easter cake, snooze, bath, wine.

Rained all day but it didn't spoil it.

Rained here too, but not in church!

I hate Easter Sunday too generally. I didn't even realise about this everything shutting nonsense until I moved down here aged 27. And it took me ages not to get caught out by the supermarkets shutting at 4 on Sundays too (which still irritates me, years later).

In any case, the PILs are visiting so we went out for the day to a local attraction and then had take away for dinner. MIL asked me to drive by the local Catholic Church so she can lie to the priest about having been to mass up here over Easter (she volunteers in the office and he asks questions about the church; she doesn't want to disappoint him by saying she didn't bother).

My gym didn't even open :-(

Huge thunderstorm in Berkshire this morning and the it rained solidly all day. Proper heavy wet cold rain.

Because the shops are open so much these days, them actually being closed for a whole day does seem a bit strange.

I don't really mind either way though. I have two lovely dses who hate shopping so I really can't bear to take them any day, never mind Easter Sunday, life is too short to deal with the grumbling.

We don't do a big family thing and I would normally be working tonight but I got the night off and we've had a nice roast and an Easter egg hunt. I did a long run this morning in the shitty weather while the dses and DH ate chocolate. So not much different from any other Sunday except more food!

I do remember when the shops were closed every Sunday and it was bloody boring, I hated Sundays when I was a child! Never anything decent on the 3 then 4 channels available and everything closed.

Lazypepper there are plenty of things I can do today but I want to go shopping. I don't like the shops being closed because of a Christian holiday I don't enjoy or celebrate.

And for many Orthodox Christians it's not even a holy day. It is in fact a holiday for some but not all Christians.

It made a wet day on a camping holiday extra grim. Can't afford tourist indoor activities so just stayed in with ds playing duties in a space smaller than a single bed.

I think the trick is to plan ahead a bit, so you have the food and drinks and books and games and gardening stuff ready and can make the most of a day off.
It we decide we are no longer going to observe Christian festivals, we may find that other religious groups will seek to establish their special days as holidays instead...

Ahhhhh deep breath, the sun is shining and Thor rescued me from dark strangers in my dreams last night. Another lazy day. Back in early 80's when I worked for Southwark council, we'd get triple time for bank holidays. D'you reckon that still exists? Hope major retailers are closed again!

Wow, triple time sourdrawers - I doubt if anywhere does that these days!
I used to get time and a third on Saturdays and time and two thirds on Sundays as a student nurse in the late 80's. I used to like lates on a Sunday
It's all stick and no carrot these days that's the trouble

"Lazypepper there are plenty of things I can do today but I want to go shopping. I don't like the shops being closed because of a Christian holiday I don't enjoy or celebrate."

Tough!

In retail the idea of double time is long gone.
The only people I knew who got it were people who had been on the same contract since before 1994 when the law changed.

I think that there are two discussions going on in this thread.

One is calling for the complete separation of church and state and to stop anything like bank holidays being dictated by the Christian calendar. I broadly agree, we are no longer a majority Christian country. However to change all our bank holidays would be a heck of a task and it will be a brave person who does it.

The other is the way retail staff are treated. If we remove the government legislation over opening hours then the big shops will screw over retail employees even more than they do already.

I agree Pipbin. I also think that as a society we have got very selfish and are too used to doing what we want when we want without regard to how it affects others.

We had unusually lovely weather yesterday. I wasn't looking forward to it as I don't like Easter Sunday, but thanks to the lovely weather we had a brilliant day at the park and then the beach, with a BBQ/picnic. It was the best Sunday we have had in ages. We usually go swimming on a Sunday but the pool was closed yday.