Ah, you see Blind Owl has the misfortune to be where all the Holiday Days we take are counterbalanced by. When you get holiday from work, every day is a Saturday. But those work days have to go somewhere, they don't just vanish, so they are transported to the most hideous place on earth - Past the Desperate Desert, beyond the Sea of Tears, exists a place few are brave - or foolish - enough to venture....
...Mondaneia...
...A cursed land where all the workdays are dumped and forgotten about, cold, barren, mildly stressful for no apparent reason... Before the Industrial Revolution it was a lush, beautiful place where every day was a Saturday. The indigenous people called the land Saterdonia ... But then British explorers in the early 1700's discovered it's vast untapped resource of relaxing days.
Although discovered in the 1700's, the British didn't exploit its untapped potential until over a hundred years later 1871, as the until that point it was easier, and prefurred, to simply exploit the workers instead offering no holidays at all. The first experiment with shifting standard work days for Saterdonia days came with the
Bank Holidays Act of 1871. Bank Holidays are mostly on Mondays so the British Empire renamed Saterdonia to Mondainia and started exporting its wealth of free days back to the UK and sending all of the populations Mondays to be dumped in their place. The experiment also included non-mondays and Saterdonia days were found to be a perfect transplant for those too, so Easter and Boxing day (when they were not on Mondays) and some others become regular fixtures too.
The trade in Saterdonia days became so lucrative workers eventually were granted an allowance of them in their contracts to make a job position more attractive, and Mondainia was cemented as the most miserable place on planet earth.
Happy Christmas day - remember Mondainia exports are the reason why you can take today off.
