1.    Bank Holiday Monday. It’s weird.  It’s a second Sunday.  Shops and public transport operate on Sunday time on bank holiday Mondays, but Sunday is a pudding of a day:  So why not make the Sunday of the bank holiday weekend a second Saturday instead?  Then we’d have two Saturdays and only one Sunday (Monday), which is a much better Saturday: Sunday ratio.  Plus, people spend more on Saturdays, so it would help the economy. ...

1.  It’s a fresh start. It is to the week what New Years Day is to the year. Full of hope, expectation and Great Aunties singing Auld Lang Syne. 2.  Sunday was so quiet without the letterbox flicking open. Now it’s Monday and the post is arriving again. Who knows what will arrive. Unless you are in the UK. In which case everyone knows what will arrive. Sod all. 3.  It’s not a day for work. Monday is spent talking about the...