high days and holidays

They were people who really let themselves go on high days and holidays, not likely to fuss about anything left over.

This 18th-century sweet preserve was traditionally made for high days and holidays.

My plan is to get them restored, and we'll use them for high days and holidays.

The high days and holidays in Cyprus are celebrated whenever possible with a colourful barbecue.

"not yet, but how come i always seem to draw duty on high days and holidays, freddy?"

Here is a car to be savoured at your leisure, on high days and holidays, but above all on sunny days.

At the moment the Forest is at its busiest on high days and holidays, but the feeling is it's reached nowhere near its full business potential.

Some mazes were on village greens and were much used for entertainment by children and youths, particularly on "high days and holidays".

While the turbodiesel has reasonable mid-range punch, neither engine feels match-fit for being laden to the gunwales on high days and holidays.

Lardy cakes are very rich and sweet and eaten traditionally for special occasions, high days and holidays and harvest festivals.

However the sail area could be extended by setting a large topsail on a yard making these boats remarkably fast in races on high days and holidays.

Families are complex structures, usually containing the odd mad aunt, questionable uncle and smelly cousin, who thankfully only require attention and tolerance on high days and holidays.

I wanted to include the obvious annual high days and holidays, but also those other occasions when I might feel like pushing the boat out: a long weekend, a lazy picnic, a crisp bonfire night.

Her formula is used throughout the house, which has a peaceful and informal country house ambience - particularly in the creamy yellow drawing room which is used only on high days and holidays.

The parish has a population of 402 according to the 2001 Census, whilst the linear village itself has a winter time population of about 36, which increases to as many as 70 on high days and holidays.

Then there were the opportunities afforded by local high days and holidays: weddings, the many days of celebration during the Christmas sea son, Shrovetide, Easter, May Day and Whitsun; the parish feasts and fairs.

It is just not possible to keep an accident investigation organisation at constant readiness every day and night, high days and holidays, and at the same time guarantee to be able to send investigating teams that are always personally experienced with the particular type of aircraft involved.

It was an ancient place, deep in the country, one of the many Hindu shrines where the country folk came on high days and holidays to do honour to their gods and to pray for a timely monsoon, for good crops and for the absence of warlords.

About this time, finding a few shillings over and no expense imminent, I laid down a cellar, in the shape of a four and a half gallon cask of beer, with a firm resolution that it should never be touched save on high days and holidays, or when guests had to be entertained.