It always mystifies me that the US, such a lover of public holidays, ignores Boxing Day (I think I write this lament annually). Because it's in the strange hinterland between Christmas and New Year, some people are very much still Not At Work (and thank you, everyone, who didn't email me today - much appreciated) - but yet, the Stock Exchange is back at work; the banks are open, and so on. No Boxing Day - no tradition of a Boxing Day walk, to try and get rid of some of the effects of all that holiday eating. But that doesn't stop us appropriating it: we walked round the Silver Lake reservoir - many fewer people than usual - and marveled, as ever, at having this ten minutes drive away from our house.
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