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The first Monday in January which isn't New Day's Day or a Bank Holiday, just like Monday 6th January - you have enjoyed two weeks off for Christmas and New Year, and then the Christmas decorations and tree comes down and goes back into the cupboard under the stairs or the loft. And all of a sudden, Monday arrives and things get back to normal - many years before Blue Monday was discovered.
Eight o'clock in the morning on Monday and my late father tells me at least five times to get up for school - something which I didn't want to go to today or any other day. Yes, I was probably over tired from watching Spitting Image and That's Life! on the previous evening when I had almost decided to forget that school was in the morning. For some reason, I just couldn't get out of bed, probably because it was too cold or just too normal. Christmas had not quite been forgotten as in 1986 I did give a girl in my class a Christmas card on the Monday after we went back as I forgot to give it to her prior to breaking up for Christmas.
The weather is horrible, cold and wet, but not traditional snow of course, and one has to get back into the routine of getting ready for school each weekday until half-term in around seven weeks' time. A bit like 6th January is this year - what I would call "Back to Normal Monday" and would otherwise compliment "Mad (formerly Black) Friday" - the Friday before Christmas (obviously renamed from Black Friday because of its double meaning of American-inspired sales in November). All the biscuits and Christmas food have been eaten and in many ways, it's as if Christmas has never happened at all.
I am certain that a lot of illnesses have coincided with that time of year in the past, and it does feel like an extension of the Christmas holidays. I just remember watching the schools programmes on the TV (as mentioned in another thread), or Radio 2 on the radio while in bed - 1989-1990 seems to spring to mind, having a stuffy nose and having Karvol to help me breathe. I am almost certain that that bureaucrat, the Education Welfare Officer was involved one year, probably that year. The days when being ill had its positive aspects!
Did it feel really depressing to go back to school after two weeks of enjoying yourself, especially when one thinks of the weather at the start of January?
Eight o'clock in the morning on Monday and my late father tells me at least five times to get up for school - something which I didn't want to go to today or any other day. Yes, I was probably over tired from watching Spitting Image and That's Life! on the previous evening when I had almost decided to forget that school was in the morning. For some reason, I just couldn't get out of bed, probably because it was too cold or just too normal. Christmas had not quite been forgotten as in 1986 I did give a girl in my class a Christmas card on the Monday after we went back as I forgot to give it to her prior to breaking up for Christmas.
The weather is horrible, cold and wet, but not traditional snow of course, and one has to get back into the routine of getting ready for school each weekday until half-term in around seven weeks' time. A bit like 6th January is this year - what I would call "Back to Normal Monday" and would otherwise compliment "Mad (formerly Black) Friday" - the Friday before Christmas (obviously renamed from Black Friday because of its double meaning of American-inspired sales in November). All the biscuits and Christmas food have been eaten and in many ways, it's as if Christmas has never happened at all.
I am certain that a lot of illnesses have coincided with that time of year in the past, and it does feel like an extension of the Christmas holidays. I just remember watching the schools programmes on the TV (as mentioned in another thread), or Radio 2 on the radio while in bed - 1989-1990 seems to spring to mind, having a stuffy nose and having Karvol to help me breathe. I am almost certain that that bureaucrat, the Education Welfare Officer was involved one year, probably that year. The days when being ill had its positive aspects!
Did it feel really depressing to go back to school after two weeks of enjoying yourself, especially when one thinks of the weather at the start of January?
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