Traditional New Year's Food

[Elawin]

As a rider to the above, you'd only get your day off if it was a working day. If a holiday fell on a Sunday, that was tough luck. I worked Monday to Saturday, but luckily Christmas Day never fell on a Sunday when I was there. Unlike in the UK, you didn't get holidays carried over if they came on non-working days.

A solicitors I worked for in London used to give us Scottish and Norwegian holidays too if we wanted them (they had an office in the very north of England, and one of their partners who was in charge of that office was Norwegian). The people who worked in that office had them as paid leave, but us in London didn't unless they came in our normal annual holidays.