The Tattie Holiday

For the past two weeks, the children of Aberdeen (and, I think, the rest of the UK) have been off from school. They are celebrating what they call the "Tattie Holiday", short for Potato Holiday of course. As you can probably guess, back in the "olden days" this was the two week period in October when the children were let out of school to help harvest the potato crop.

Nothing like continuing a holiday that originally centered around child labor...(wink, wink).