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 Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope.
欢迎回来行闲话英伦, Hi 安澜。
Hi, Lulu, hi everyone.
Now as we are recording this, we're in October after the National (Day), so basically we've used up all of the public holidays of the year.
Yeah, that is true, (YEAH) but look on the bright side at least it's better than it would be in the UK.
What do you mean?
Well, the last public holiday in the UK was in August and our next public holiday is the end of December.
SO 4 months without any public holiday.
That's right.
Is that our topic today? Public holidays in the UK.
YEAH. I thought, you know we’ve talked about Christmas, we’ve talked about Halloween which instead is not a public holiday. So I thought would be a good idea just to talk about public holidays in general.
Yeah. I guess knowing that you guys have even fewer public holidays did make me feel better.
In the UK there's only eight public holidays.
只有8个公众假日? Do you mean public holiday days or eight different public... because you know some of our public holidays are...
8 public holiday days.
Throughout the year?
Well, in England. if you go to Scotland and you go to Wales, they actually have slightly more public holidays than we have in England.
You only have 8 days.
That's right.
Does that include Christmas?
YES.
If I remember correctly, Christmas is not just one day, it's a... Christmas eve?
Not Christmas eve. Christmas eve is a workday.You have Christmas day and you have Boxing day.
Christmas eve is not a holiday?
No.
So technically you still have to work.
You still have to work. But most companies they'll let you finish a little bit earlier.
安澜, did you hear that this year there's gonna be a change in China, I think. They just announced the New Year's Eve is not going to be a public holiday this year.
Really?