Here is the entry from the blog of six years ago: 'The residents of Foula, the most remote island in the Shetland group, have since 1752 traditionally adhered to the Julian Calendar when it comes to Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Foula also adhered to the older calendar by keeping 1800 as a leap year, but did not observe a leap year in 1900. As a result, the island is now one day ahead of the Julian calendar and twelve days behind the Gregorian, observing Christmas Day on 6 January Gregorian and New Year on 13 January Gregorian. At one time the Foula Post Office made a token opening for business on Christmas Day morning. A similar resistance to the date change brought in 260 years ago is shown by the 200 or so residents of the Gwaun Valley in West Wales.'
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That is really profoundly interesting actually.
ReplyDeleteBtw thanks for giving poemblog7.blogspot.com a run out but I thought poemblogtwelve.blogspot.co.uk would have been more appropriate for the cause, ie 'islands'.
and when I get a hit from Tristan da Cunha I will do a scantilly dressed dance diwn the High Street of Lincoln!!!
sincere regards, Mark.