Picnic Day
Aug 1st 2005, 1:30 am
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Picnic Day
I see on my calender that today is a bank holiday in NSW and ACT, but interestingly, well for me anyway, it is a picnic day in NT. This may be a daft question but I was wondering if anybody in NT could explain what this means. It sounds fun.
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Aug 1st 2005, 2:19 am
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Re: Picnic Day
According to:
http://www.nt.gov.au/ntgovcgi/events...l?eventid=1120
PICNIC DAY is traditionally when the North Australian Railway closed and the staff travelled to Adelaide River for a Picnic Day.
HTH!
GG
http://www.nt.gov.au/ntgovcgi/events...l?eventid=1120
PICNIC DAY is traditionally when the North Australian Railway closed and the staff travelled to Adelaide River for a Picnic Day.
HTH!
GG
Originally Posted by KatieStar
I see on my calender that today is a bank holiday in NSW and ACT, but interestingly, well for me anyway, it is a picnic day in NT. This may be a daft question but I was wondering if anybody in NT could explain what this means. It sounds fun.
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Aug 1st 2005, 2:28 am
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Re: Picnic Day
When I was working in Sydney, in the late 80's, we had an official Picnic Day, and the majority of the company actually went out on a Picnic, everything supplied by the company 
Aug 1st 2005, 2:45 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by ABCDiamond
When I was working in Sydney, in the late 80's, we had an official Picnic Day, and the majority of the company actually went out on a Picnic, everything supplied by the company
Aug 1st 2005, 3:50 am
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The tea ladies in your last job were old fashioned?
Originally Posted by JulesandChris
We do still have picnic day where i work. Ours was only a few weeks back. These days there is no get together, people just enjoy a day off to do nothing. It is a bit old fashioned, like the tea ladies in my last job.
Aug 1st 2005, 4:35 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by Geordie George
The tea ladies in your last job were old fashioned?
Aug 1st 2005, 5:54 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by KatieStar
I see on my calender that today is a bank holiday in NSW and ACT, but interestingly, well for me anyway, it is a picnic day in NT. This may be a daft question but I was wondering if anybody in NT could explain what this means. It sounds fun.
Katie
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It is Darwin Cup day. Darwin Cup is run at 5.50pm EST so get yourselves down to the local TAB for a punt. If you are in a S-TAB area your minimum ticket cost also raises to $3 from today.
Aug 1st 2005, 6:12 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by NJJ
It is Darwin Cup day. Darwin Cup is run at 5.50pm EST so get yourselves down to the local TAB for a punt. If you are in a S-TAB area your minimum ticket cost also raises to $3 from today.
Aug 1st 2005, 2:01 pm
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Re: Picnic Day
Thanks for all your replies. The north australian railway sounds like it was a great employer I think a picnic day is a great idea, great craic all round and now it has become the day of the Darwin cup. I don't bet on the nags not since my runner in the grand national had to be shot. I felt partly responsible 
I think a picnic day is a great idea, great craic all round and now it has become the day of the Darwin cup. I don't bet on the nags not since my runner in the grand national had to be shot. I felt partly responsible
Aug 1st 2005, 2:07 pm
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Re: Picnic Day
We should have a British Ex Pats day to.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
Aug 1st 2005, 11:42 pm
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Originally Posted by Bordy
We should have a British Ex Pats day to.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
And maybe being British, we should do it on the same day as the Queens Birthday, oops, we already get that day off don't we
Aug 2nd 2005, 12:41 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by Bordy
We should have a British Ex Pats day to.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
Then we could all take the day off work & go for a BBQ.
I just had my picnic day yesterday, I work currently for a bank and we actually had the 1st of August as a full holiday. It was the weirdest thing going having coffee while the kids went to school and everyone else to work. The starbucks was opposite the ANZ (not the bank I work for) and it was a right laugh watching people turn up and tut and get cross about it being shut!
It would have been a whole lot better if I could have gone to the pub with a 'heap' of expats - what is the collective name for a group of British Expats!
Aug 2nd 2005, 2:41 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by Sandra
- what is the collective name for a group of British Expats!
Aug 2nd 2005, 3:23 am
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Re: Picnic Day
Originally Posted by DagBoy
A whinge
Wish I'd thought of it
