Posted by Robert Hill on May 31, 2010 at 11:03:30 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: The time of year in posted by Adam Quinan on May 31, 2010 at 07:15:09:
There are a fair number of seeming chronological inconsistencies in the books, for example those concerning Bridget's age. I haven't read Tom Napier's Mixed Moss articles, but I think any attempt to get too precise about the chronology of the stories, for example by deducing what day of the week events happened on, is bound to find itself soon dealing with considerations which were never in the author's mind.
Offhand I can't remember any direct statements in the books about what day of the week it was at the time, or any scenes when they found a shop closed because of what day it was. And if you started examining weather records, or years when the lakes were high or low, you could probably disprove every possible theory. So such exercises should be approached in the knowledge that they're only a game, like the train timetable investigations that Tarboarders have done.
In the spirit of such games, I'll add that at my day school in the 1960s, the summer mid-term holiday was one week, coinciding with Whit week, which begins on Whit Sunday (Pentecost), seven weeks after Easter.