Well, as always, business close over the Christmas new year holiday break. Luckily here in Marrickville fewer close than in other places. Still this morning all the cafe’s except for two were closed. Unfortunately the two that were open were ones I do not normally go to. The steam powered cafe does not have any food and Gloria Jeans is suffering from the fact that I have never particularly liked middle class Australian stuff. I took lots of photos of all the closed for the break signs on this side of Marrickville Railway Station. There were 44 in total. Here is a representative sample. I am not sure why they say thank you when they are making one’s life more difficult by being closed. I think that the best work was sorry.
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I wonder if any Vietnamese or Chinese business will close on Traditional Lunar New Year. In Thailand, of course, they don’t close on Christmas holiday but they close both Thai (fixed Gregorian calendar) and Chinese New Year.
I think we should be heading towards a time when we move away from religion based holidays. Is Chinese new year in Thai a new year holiday? In China it is really the Spring Festival. I’d think that many businesses choose to be open on any day as they can sell more. Particularly the ones that were open 7 days a week anyway.