It never occurred to ask, “why?” Christmas and Easter holidays in Primary School days would be two weeks and two days. Any holiday was, of course, welcome, boys have much more interesting things to do than sit in the classroom learning about ancient civilisations and learning cursive handwriting. Yet the consistency with which the time off was two weeks and two days never prompted curiosity, that was the way it was and why would we wish to question it?

Years later, the answer is obvious, the two extra days arose …