Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad's caravan near Aberfoyle.
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
I don't believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
Bad presidents don't deserve holidays. They deserve scorn.
My holidays are generally impromptu, since a crazy work schedule is bound to eat into a long-planned trip.
In Asia, it is very hectic - there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It's pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
For me, Hyderabad was all about summer holidays, rasam rice, spicy pickles, and more.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.
I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays.
As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.
