LuL, Sorry I wasn’t clear.
Yes, generally yeshivos in EY go back on 1st day and start learning 2nd day Rosh Chodesh. However, in the Mir, where I was zoche to spend two wonderful years, everything kicks off on 1st day Rosh Chodesh, whatever day of the week it is. I remember one year Rosh Chodesh was Friday Shabbos. In Gateshead the zman got going only on the Monday, after everyone travelled up on Sunday. I thought to myself. 10am Monday is 12pm in Mir. The daf (meaning the chabura that learns a daf a day which R’ Noson Zvi ztvk”l passionately promoted) are already deep into daf hey before Gateshead gets started. (I’m not having a go, I’m just saying how it is).
CTL, mazel tov on your impending simcha. That is very interesting to me. I grew up in Yeoville, and we davened in the Adath for a long time, before moving to Rav Sternbuch’s kehilla. The Kollel when you were there, would have been in Urania Street, in Observatory. I’m just too young to remember the founders of the Adath, but I remember and know the next generation of their children. They have largely left now some to EY, many in Manchester and other places. If you look online for the South African Jewish Life magazine archive, there is an article to mark the 80th anniversary of the Adath in the March 2017 issue.