AIBU to be doing the front garden on Whitsunday?

[Jinsky]

I am gardening in the front garden today - it resembles a jungle and today is the only day I have time or the energy to tackle it.
DH is shocked that I am doing it today as it is Whitsunday and the neighbours might be offended and it is disrespectful.

He is confusing me with someone who cares about what the neighbours might think or if their religious sensibilities are offended.
He hasn't made a big thing of it but I think he is B and I am a bit gobsmacked by his views. He thinks I am BU.
What does anyone else think?

Naked Gardening Day was last weekend.

I think he is being exceedingly odd personally.

There's a Christie story that hinges on gardners not working on Sunday. So maybe if you live in St. Mary Mead in the 1950s your DH has a point.

Er never ever heard of not gardening on whit or any other Sunday!
I'm pretty sure your neighbours won't be offended

Times have changed. Both my Nana's thought that you could go to Hell for doing washing on a Sunday and to hang it outside would cause a scandal. Times have changed though

I am not in rural Bavaria but my DH comes from there and he can be exceedingly odd - not to mention extremely conservative.
He has many redeeming features, though, but his opinions are sometimes very challenging. Nobody's perfect!

I thought Whit Sunday was the Sunday before Whitsun school holiday which is at the end of May

Just googled and I am clearly wrong. When I was growing up the half term holiday in May was always known as Whitsun week. Am I the only one?

Just googled and I am clearly wrong. When I was growing up the half term holiday in May was always known as Whitsun week. Am I the only one?

Oh god I remember Sunday's growing up in Germany - all vaguely noisy toys were put away and we were barely allowed to breathe.

I like the idea of Sunday being a peaceful relaxing day - and what could be more relaxing than a spot of gardening? (Disclaimer: I don't have a garden)

I would agree that gardening is relaxing - I love the before and after effect.
Whitsun is always 40 days after Easter.
So, back to my front garden now.

When I was growing up no one would hang out laundry on a Sunday.

I thought Whitsun is when May half term is

I'd forgotten it was Whitsunday. I still think it's the bank holiday weekend.

It was a huge day when I as growing up in the Gower. Big Cymanfa Ganu (A sort of Singalong for which you had a new outfit) in the chapel and a communal walk around the village then a tea.

Sunnyoutside and mamma I'm glad you've said it because I always believed it was whitsun half term

But then I think I do remember a partially early Easter it was about 2 weeks before half term

Clash kid noise is allowed in our village, just not work noise :o Many kids football tournaments and village beer festivals happen on Sundays... Perhaps Bavaria has changed or perhaps it's just like that in some places... certainly no throwing glass bottles into the recycling or lawn mowing though. It took a few years to get used to but I like it now because I am incredibly lazy Ironically I work on a Sunday twice a month, which I never did in the UK, but it'snot a job you can just not do one day a week...

I still call it Whitsun half term My dc look at me like this

My mum used to get new clothes for whitsun and they would do the whit walks, which I believe was some kind of church parade. Clearly this happened in a parallel universe

Owl That has just reminded me, my mum used to get the summer clothes out of the loft and we would have a big trying on session. My older dsis would be excited that she would need new clothes and I would be beside myself because it meant that her cast offs would be passed to me

It's a what now?

Is that why there were guys in crowns doing some ridiculous ceremony on TV today?

I was at church today on Pentecost, or Whit Sunday.

Unless you were using an electric or petrol lawn mower at say 8am in the morning, I would not be offended.

I doubt if the neighbours would be either.

I imagine that anyone who might be offended would have been in church anyway.

I'm gardening in the front garden too, oblivious to the fact that it's Whitsunday 😳

The only Whitsunday I care about is the islands where I can put my feet up and drink cocktails with little umbrellas in them.

Talked about the whole "the neighbours might be offended" stuff over lunch. DH agreed that he was BU. And appreciates my work in the garden.
Next job is to drink a glass of wine

Perhaps you can rustle up a supper of steamed asparagus, boiled potatoes and a little hollandaise to go with a bit more He sounds a little homesick