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[winterbadger]

In order to take one of my holidays as leave on other than one of the designated company holidays, I need to designate it as an alternate holiday:

"Alternate holidays must be based on a specific event or milestone, i.e. employee wedding anniversary, birthday of employee or immediate family (spouse, domestic partner, or child), or commonly observed holidays (regional, cultural or religious) such as those found on the diversity calendar."

Looking at the diversity calendar, I see that the first Monday of the first week in February next year will be Imbolc.

So, I'm asking HR for leave to go to visit friends in the UK for Imbolc. :-)

Comments

[wolfette]

some of us do celebrate it :-)

of course!

[winterbadger]

Many of my LJ friends celebrate it! And I plan to be celebrating too! :-)

I just find it amusing that (a) my company feels it has to dictate what are appropriate days for us to use our holiday leave and (b) my buttoned-down US megacorp has Imbolc as one of it's alternate holidays...

[schizokitty.livejournal.com]

Heh. I used to celebrate this, too.

I think it's appropriate you'll be in the UK for lambing (another word for Imbolc is Oimelc or "ewe milk"), as it is a particularly Celtic pagan holiday(see "Imbolc" on Wikipedia). ^_^ Have a bonfire with friends!

[silme.livejournal.com]

Lambing season has started already where I live in the UK. :) (There are some gorgeous babies here in the forest. At the organic farm where we buy various meats and produce, we took a picture yesterday of a lamb sleeping on its mother's back. It reminded both of us of how one of our cats likes to sleep on my back. :) But I think it starts earlier way down south where we are.

[silme.livejournal.com]

Imbolc is one of my favourite holidays. We may attend the usual open ritual in the middle of the New Forest this year. I'm sometimes still weirded out that we can celebrate it outside here as it's so much warmer in this country than it was in Colorado. :)

[wolfette]

then again, we're much more likely to get snow for Imbolc than at Midwinter, here in Scotland!

[silme.livejournal.com]

In Colorado, chances were good you'd have snow for both holidays. :) Of course, we held our outdoor rituals at a site in the foothills up past Jamestown, Colorado, a pretty little rural site by the St. Vrain Creek, at probably around 8400 feet, so I suppose it was our own fault. We tried going up there one year at Beltane and there was still too much snow.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I love Imbolc, usually by that time the sun's definitely returned, spring is starting (where I live) and my SAD has worn off, though I didn't get any this year. Yay diversity calendars :) Do you have to take a stuffed toy lamb back to prove you were celebrating a religious wotsit though? :)

[winterbadger]

No, I don't think I have to show, but my boss (who is, I had forgotten, pagan) will insist I take her along if I go over for Beltane! She's longed to see the BFS's big occasion! (As, indeed, have I, ever since I saw pictures of it.)

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about that but a friend was involved in the BFS winter solstice thing and the photos were amazing!

[winterbadger]

That's my impression (and my boss's) too--it would be very cool to see!