It’s Mothers Day today. Or is it? The answer is, it depends where in the world you are. The UK, and some other countries, celebrate what is commonly known as Mothers Day on Mothering Sunday, the Christian festival that falls on the fourth Sunday in Lent. As far back as the sixteenth century, people would…
I blogged yesterday on the apparently large number of incidents, often negative, that have happened on the 30th January over the years, and on Twitter afterwards, I surmised that perhaps there is not an unusual number of world events on this date, it is just that I am familiar with quite a few, and so…
It’s the 30th January. It is a date that always strikes me as one which attracts “events”. The history books seem to have more than their fair share of this date, and I have often wondered why. Perhaps it is just that certain events of which I am aware have occurred on this date, and…