It's time for another #NerdOut !

Following my Toot about the #QuarterDays & the long-standing custom of rent payments, today is one of the 4 #CrossQuarterDays.

These fall between the Quarter Days and tend to indicate the start of seasons.

Today is #Imbolc (ewe milk) for lambing & the start of (Northern hemisphere) Spring. Yesterday was Brigid/St Brides Day in Ireland, and today in the US is #GroundhogDay :)
ETA: Today is also the Christian festival of Candlemas.

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Just checked & no mention of #QuarterDays, so time for a #nerdout

Back in the early 2000s I was proof-reading commercial leases: office space & small businesses including many fish & chip shops.

I had to make my own fun to maintain focus (fish & chip shop names aside). I soon learned that almost all these modern business leases stated that rent was to be paid quarterly - fair enough, I thought. But:

'on the standard Quarter Days'

FYI these are 25 March, 24 June, 29 September, 25 December.