I just found out what day work gives us off at Christmas. Every year our company has something called a Statutory Day, which is a day off at Christmas time decided on by the Partners. This year they've chosen the 24th (Christmas Eve), which isn't normally a public or bank holiday in this country so we'd usually have to come in, but this year we get the 24th off work.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day (the 26th, which IS a bank holiday) fall over the weekend so we get the 27th and 28th off work too! 5 full days off in a row... bonus!! Then we only have to work the 29th and 30th, and get the 1st off work too as that's a bank holiday also.

Weeee!! Christmas is great for getting time off work, Easter is too... it's always a 4 day weekend!

Our next bank holiday is the 30th of August, then we don't get another till Christmas rolls around, which is a long time to wait for one day off work.