Leap Day
“Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that hath twenty-eight days clear, […]
“Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone, And that hath twenty-eight days clear, […]
Swithin, or Swithun, (c.800-863) became Bishop of Winchester in 852. He organised the building and restoration of churches and bridges, financed by […]
The Football Association of England and Wales (F.A.) was founded in 1863. With the advent of the railways making team travel easier, […]
After studying hard for a degree, a university student will have mixed feelings on graduation day. It is an achievement to fill […]
Weddings in the UK are now high on the list of life’s major expenses at an average of £30,000. Wedding fairs, websites, […]
The number 13 has long been considered unlucky but its combination with Friday in a double-whammy of doom is a relatively new […]
St. Dwynwen’s Day is on 25th January and commemorates the Welsh patron saint of lovers ~ a chance to exchange Welsh lovespoons! […]
Thinking Day, or, as it has been known since 2000, ‘World Thinking Day’, has been celebrated each year by Girl Guides and […]
A ‘stag do‘ is a get-together of a bridegroom and his male friends shortly before his wedding day. Tradition has it that […]
The celebration of Mothering Sunday was firstly Christianised, then Americanised and finally commercialised into its present form. It is one of the […]
May Day is on 1st May and it is an ancient pagan celebration of the seasonal warming of the weather, bringing on […]
Although some religions have shunned New Year’s Eve celebrations as heathen, it is a natural inclination to mark significant milestones in life. […]
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