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Bugger Bank Holidays! Oh, the queues, the barbecues, the B&Qs! D J Taylor, with apologies to Bognor and George V, says ...

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050529
Author:D J Taylor

Seventy years ago this month, solitary amid a London seething with King George V's Silver Jubilee celebrations, George Orwell set about planning a Bank Holiday jaunt. Having borrowed some money from a wealthy friend on the Saturday night, he took a Sunday morning train down to Brighton 'for the first time in my life' and spent a self- absorbed day and a half picking bluebells and hunting out birds' nests in the fields beyond the shoreline. Then, on the Monday afternoon, came the problem of negotiating a passage home. 'The crowds in Brighton weren't so bad,' he reported to a friend, 'but of ...

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