Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

The ‘Just Another’ Holiday

It’s on a random date.

There’s nothing much to celebrate

It’s just a day off work.

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Except essential workers

They’ll have to work of course.

And thanks to all the rest of us

Experience extra stress.

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Half of us are in our cars

Congested, stuck in jams.

The other half are stuck at home

Complaining that they’re bored.

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Shops and restaurants crowded

Like everywhere you’d go.

The worst time to go anywhere

A public holiday!

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Perhaps we’ll leave the country

If we can find a flight

But holidays most always mean

The airport’s hit by strikes.

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There’ll engineering work

Affecting all the trains

And a restricted service

On almost every line.

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Then of course there’s relatives

Arguments to have.

Will they go to his or hers

Can they come to ours?

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Of course I’m up for holidays

And keeping special ones.

We’d all like extra holidays

But must we go at once?

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I’d love an extra holiday

But add it to my leave!

Don’t tell me when to take it

Just leave that up to me.

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What are your favourite websites?

Choose a favourite website?

Well that’s a difficult choice!

I kind of like to cruise around

And get to different points.

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I’d like to say it’s Jetpack

But Jetpack has its faults.

The thing that often fails it

Is rotten, awful prompts.

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Sometimes it’s contributors

Who just rely on bots

Or just repeat the question

And somehow still get likes!

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But still I’ll turn to Jetpack first

Then glance at various news

And then I’ll find the sports sites

Spend lots of time on those.

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I’m into fantasy football

So must keep up with those.

Love the hub and fantasy scout

And fpl’s own views.

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I’ll go to Duolingo

to exercise my brain.

Brushing up on languages skills

Though sometimes it’s a strain.

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I like to go on YouTube

A place to learn new skills.

Quite often it’s just household tasks

Right know it’s drawing skills.

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Now and then I’ll play a game

Designed to help my brain

Presently I play Mahjong

The favoured way to train.

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Right now that’s just a flavour

Of how I use the web.

Who would ask my favourite page

if I just read books?

Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?

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Give me back my teenage years

I missed them first time round

Totally lacking confidence

I missed out on that age.

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I didn’t go to parties

Too shy to talk to girls

Not much into music

My only interest sport.

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Even there a failure

Would never make the team

Excellent in the playground

But on the pitch too quiet.

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Tried hard with my schoolwork

But mostly keeping up

Gave up on difficult subjects

Never spoke up in class.

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I never wore my hair long

Or wore outrageous clothes.

As for controversial views

I kept them to myself.

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If this sounds pathetic

I must tell you that I was

And missing out those teenage years

Will have a consequence.

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Those years are for experiment

To make mistakes, grow up.

Miss out on that development

And it will catch you up.

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I tried to live life backwards

Get back those missing years

But later life’s an awful time

To find that you missed out.