Happy May Day

Happy May Day!

I was all excited about celebrating this morning until I really thought about how it would feel to get up early to have a few drinks, watch some "crazy kids" jump off the Magdalen Bridge (which seems to have become a tradition of sorts in Oxford with Oxford Uni students... ), and watch some morris dancers on Broad Street. I decided I'd rather sleep and read about it in the paper the next day. I must really be getting old.

Because the river that the students end up jumping into is only about 5 feet deep and because in the past many students end up in hospital, the city got smart and decided to have some construction work done around the bridge around this time and put up some signs saying that the bridge would be closed from 3 am - 9 am on May 1st. I wonder how that worked out. It's not like Oxford Uni students are stupid. I'm sure they managed to find a way around it.

Here's a link about May Day around the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day

Hope the weather is as nice wherever you are as it is here today.