Hey morning all my chums !
It's Bank Holiday in England today ..... A national holiday, well for some...

So, a change of direction today..
National poetry month is done......so now, a story.

This was written by myself in a request to produce a piece of flash fiction
within 50 words !

This is :-

FROST

  

He’d left the door open.

Frost crept in, tiny crystal fingers crawled across the flooring.

They stayed where they were in their cosseting chairs and watched it creep.

The frost consumed them and, they didn’t care.

Frozen in their empty lives, where they always were. They, just let it go.

So why's today called a "Bank Holiday" ?

In the United Kingdom and Ireland a bank holiday is a public holiday, when banks and many other businesses are closed for the day.

Bank holidays are often assumed to be so called because they are days upon which banks are shut, but days that banks are shut aren't always bank holidays. For example: Good Friday and Christmas Day are not bank holidays, they are common law' holidays. The dates for bank holidays are set out in statute or are proclaimed by royal decree. The term "bank holiday" was coined by Sir John Lubbock, who felt there was a need to differentiate the two types of holiday.

In England and Wales a bank holiday tends automatically to be a public holiday, so the day is generally observed as a holiday. A number of differences apply to Scotland. For example, Easter Monday is not a bank holiday, and, although they share the same name, the Summer Bank Holiday falls on the first Monday in August in Scotland as opposed to the last elsewhere in the UK.

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