You may have noticed that the blog has been quieter than usual in the past number of days. Ck and Simon, the two regular posters on the blog, have upped anchors and headed off on various adventures across the globe, leaving little ol’ me to mind the fort. As my posting is, at best, occassional, the conveyor belt of posts has ground to a halt at Dossing TImes Towers.

But I digress.

What i really want to talk to you about is Wednesday. No, not the fictitious daughter of the equally fictitious Gomez and Morticia Addams, but the day Wednesday. It is my humble opinion that Wednesday is a wholly unappreciated day. For example, my colleagues at work have taken to calling Wednesday “Hump Day” which is a truly ghastly moniker for the equinox of the working week.

Many years ago some bright spark decided that we regular Joes should work 5 days a week and have 2 days off, thus giving birth to the “weekend”, a concept around which our lives revolve (well those of us with a job anyway). Friday, with its proximity to these free days, was thrust into super-stardom as a result and, in time, awarded its own dedicated chocolate bar, the Crunchie.

Meanwhile Wednesday gets squat!

However, having the weekend on Saturday and Sunday means that our lives revolve around work and, apart from being an utterly depressing thought, that is simple not true. For what is a week but a 7 day cycle of days. I contend that our cycle of days revolves around our free time and not work. It revolves around Saturday and Sunday.In reality, Saturday and Sunday, the weekend, are not the weekend at all. They are in fact, the centre of the week and Wednesday is the first day of the new week.

Think about it.

We spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday talking about and planning for Saturday and Sunday. We then spend Monday and Tuesday talking about, recovering from and mourning the loss of Saturday and Sunday. Wednesday is the pivitol day when we move on to the next cycle. Hope is reborn and the next “weekend” appears just on the horizon.

Hump day, me eye!

Wednesday is Hope day, and if Friday gets a chocolate bar then so should Wednesday.

I say, let that bar be a Moro bar because they are really yummy.