Scottish schools go back in the middle of August, a fortnight or more before those in England and Wales, so the second half of August 2030 has one part of the country back at work and the rest still away. The grouse season opens on the 12th and the cereal harvest runs through the month wherever the weather allows.
Leave in August 2030 runs out at the end. The late summer bank holiday is the last public holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland until Christmas Day, a gap of nearly four months, which is why so much annual leave gets held back for the autumn once the summer is over.
The move from August into September brings the country back to work all at once. August 2030 hands over the last of the festivals, the harvest and the results days to a month that resets every timetable in the calendar within its first week.