What Easter Monday means to me

‘Luke’s account tells us that it was the evening of the day of the Resurrection that Jesus appeared to his disciples. Since Jewish tradition counts a full day as being from sunset to sunset, that means it counted as Monday,’ says Jenny Sanders.

In the summer of 1979, Bob Geldof let us know how much he and The Boomtown Rats hated Mondays.  After two days of social buzz, a change of pace and taking advantage of the opportunity to kick back and relax over a weekend, Mondays can still loom ahead with all the welcome menace of a dentist’s drill.

Unless, of course, it’s a British Bank Holiday Monday; then we look forward to a lie in and make tentative plans for seaside trips and barbecues, accompanied by trusty umbrellas and raincoats.