Earth Day 2020 - 50th anniversary!

This year, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. 

The connection that we have to nature, plants, and the land is integral to our health and all that we are. 

Earth Day reminds us to take care of our planet—whether it’s cleaning up litter, planting more trees, recycling and repurposing, or going on a walk in a green space amidst the wildflowers. Celebrate!

The “green things growing” whisper me
Of many an earth-old mystery.
–Eben Eugene Rexford

Listen to Michael Jackson's Earth Song and get inspired!

It's summer !

Tips about travelling to London

It's summer time!

Spring time !

First day of winter - 21st December

What exactly is the winter solstice?

The December solstice happens at the same instant for all of us, everywhere on Earth. This year the solstice occurs on Wednesday December 21st at 10:44 GMT (Universal time).

The winter solstice happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, when the North Pole is tilted farthest – 23.5 degrees – away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.

The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere during the December solstice and is closer to the horizon than at any other time in the year, meaning shorter days and longer nights.

SUNGLASSES DAY - 27th June

Elton John has over a thousand pairs, Canadian singer Corey Hart only wears his at night, and you can tell the good guys from the bad guys in The Matrix by the shape of theirs. What am I talking about? Sunglasses, of course! There’s nothing quite as stylish as a pair of shades, so get out your aviators or your wayfarers and start celebrating Sunglasses Day!

Although the origins of Sunglasses Day are unknown, the history of sunglasses stretches as far back as 14th century China, where judges used eyewear made of smoke-coloured quartz to mask their emotions. Fast-forward 600 years and modern sunglasses as we know them today were first marketed by entrepreneur Sam Foster on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

One other thing to remember is that sunglasses also help protect your eyes from harmful UV light, so channel your inner-cool and slip on those shades on Sunglasses Day!

Choose your favourite style:

A little bit of humour...

Find out how to find the PERFECT sunglasses for you:

Happy St. Patrick's Day

LEAP YEAR DAY - 29th February

Feel like things are getting on top of you, and you can’t keep up? Don’t worry –Leap Year Day is a free day that only comes around once every four years! Use it to catch up, slow down, and prepare yourself for another four years of hectic madness…

A Leap Day, February 29, is added to the calendar during leap years. This extra day makes the year 366 days long – not 365 days, like a common year.

Why Add a Leap Day?

Leap days are needed to keep our calendar in alignment with

the Earth's revolutions around the Sun.

It takes the Earth approximately 365.242189 days – or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds – to circle once around the Sun. This called a tropical year.

Without an extra – or intercalary – day on February 29 nearly every four years, we would lose almost six hours every year. After only 100 years, our calendar would be off by approximately 24 days in relation to fixed seasonal days days like the vernal equinox or winter solstice.

Autumn and its colors have arrived!

I did nothing today

Such a lovely poem...

Summer is coming...

Summer is coming... why not reading Shakespeare to start off? 

Click below:

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

It's a girl!

A NEW PRINCESS WAS BORN                 2nd May 2015

FACTS: 

The baby weighs 8lbs 3oz.

The princess is the first to be born into the British monarchy in 25 years. The last was Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie in 1990.

She made her first public appearance at 6.12pm, before leaving for home with her family.

30th April is... Honesty Day!

Honesty Day is all about telling the truth. Be brave and share opinions, thoughts and perspectives that might otherwise go unsaid in order to be polite – but take care not to upset or offend others.


A little bit of humour...

A song about it:

7th April 2015 is ...

The laundry will be just fine in the basket until tomorrow.

You’ve got enough plates to leave the washing up until the morning, just this once.

No Housework Day is the one day a year you can just relax, forget those daily chores and do absolutely anything else instead. It’s a chance to indulge yourself with no guilt, no stress and no dusting.

You could celebrate it a little differently; if you’re not the person who normally does the housework, why not take over just for today to give them a break? Or if you have a neighbour who’s not as young as they were, how about offering to help out with chores this No Housework Day?

However you choose to celebrate, don’t forget to sit back and raise a (presumably dirty) glass to the kind soul who invented it!

Watch this video and learn the vocabulary:

Sunday, 9th November is ... TONGUE TWISTER DAY !

Peter Piper picked a peck of… Peter Piper pecked a pick… Never mind; you get the point.Tongue Twister Day is about fumbling through those awkward phrases in an attempt to improve annunciation and impress your friends.

‘The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick,’ is recorded as the most difficult one by the Guinness Book of World Records.

Try these simple ones:

Allie’s alligator ate apples. 
Bobby’s brother bought beautiful bowls. 
Carter carried carrots carefully. 
Donna danced during dinner. 
Earlene eagerly eats eel. 
Fred fell feet first. 
George gladly goes golfing. 
Haddie has hot hamburgers. 
Ida itches in Idaho. 
Jackie joyfully jumps Jupiter. 
Karla kept kicking kangaroos.

Go on... next letter is L...


Or, would you like something more difficult?


Betty Botter had some butter,
“But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
it would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter –
that would make my batter better.”
So she bought a bit of butter,
better than her bitter butter,
and she baked it in her batter,
and the batter was not bitter.
So ‘twas better Betty Botter

bought a bit of better butter.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?



She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,

I’m sure she sells seashore shells.




Now, listen and repeat:

 

How many cans can a canner can, if a canner can can cans?
A canner can can as many cans as a canner can, if a canner can can cans.

August 16th is ... TELL A JOKE DAY!

Why did the chicken cross the road? To celebrate Tell A Joke Day, of course!

I'm pretty sure that you can do better than that; and even if you can’t, give it a go anyway! Make people laugh, that's what matters: 

A little bit of humour...

JULY is... ICE CREAM MONTH!

President Ronald Reagan of the United States proclaimed that July was forever to be ‘Ice Cream Month‘.

 You got it folks, this one’s official, so all the more reason to dig into your 
favourite flavours!












 Choose your flavour...

   

DO YOU WANT SOME FREE PRINTABLES FOR A SUMMER PARTY? CLICK BELOW: 

ICE CREAM PARTY

SMILE POWER DAY - 15th June

Smile Power Day is the perfect excuse to shine your pearly whites and show off those dimples. And no, a smiley face or an emoticon won’t do! Not today, at least. The smile is a symbol of happiness and vitality, a beacon of hope and an expression of emotion. So just for today, drop the ‘:)’ texts and flash them a real smile.

Nobody knows who came up with the idea of dedicating a whole 24 hours to the involuntary contraction of the zygomatic major muscle, but one thing is certain: we’re the only creatures on the planet that can do it.Whether fate smiled upon you or not, you can always find a good reason to smile. So grin from ear to ear, look on the bright side and smile your troubles away, just like the great Dr. Seuss suggested: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

Smile Power Day is meant to be shared with loved ones. You can take them all out to a stand-up show, put together an organised smile-off, eat smiley-glazed cupcakes, drink some Smile Cocktails, and paint smileys everywhere because everyone and his brother loves them. Most importantly, when you crack a smile today, remember that it’s not Smile Power Day unless you can put a smile one someone else’s face, too.

Thursday, 22nd May is ... GOTH DAY!

Wear black clothes, white make-up, and approach the world from a different angle. Unleash your inner goth for Goth Day!

Are you any of these?

Here's what you need to become one...