What sort of Friday did you have?
I wonder if we are becoming obsessed with days of the week, especially ones we have chosen to designate as something particular. Feel good Friday is one of these. It refers to that historical thing the weekend which used to occur at the end of the working week. After working five days we’d get a weekend off, preceeded by, of course, Feel Good Friday.
But in these days of the gig economy and so many other euphemisms for dodgy work practices, many people don’t get a weekend off and there’s nothing feel good about Friday.
We’re now at the end of week 11 of our Spring term and this year we will break up for Easter holidays at the end of next week. So we’re in the market for that well known Spring argument, who decides when its Easter?
Not me. This year we miss out on being at school during Holy Week, so we have to do Holy Week early if we’re going to have it at all.
As a result, this week we’ve celebrated both Palm Wednesday and Palm Friday with two palm processions, one for Preschool and one for years 1 and 2.
During the Palm Friday procession, the ultimate piece of remembered Bible for the term, the last word in Feel Good Friday, came from our young cross carrier. Trying hard to keep the processional cross upright in the wind, he said: ‘This cross is making my arms hurt’. That really made today Good Enough Friday.