Burns Night and Burns Suppers
Some hae meat and canna eat, This 25 January, as every year, people in Scotland, Britain and the worldwide Scottish … Continued
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Festivals & Traditions
Festive Traditions
Christmas is coming … Ah! British Christmas. So cosy, so nostalgic. What’s not to love about this time of year?
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The holly and the ivy: wonderful words for Christmas plants
Which plants I wonder, gentle reader, do you associate with Christmas? I strongly suspect several of this week’s Collins Word
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Yorkshire Day: celebrating Yorkshire words and Yorkshireness
The first of August is Yorkshire Day, established in 1975 and designed to encourage Yorkshire people to celebrate Yorkshire’s unique
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International Mother Language Day
What and when is International Mother Language Day? It’s a United Nations initiative first celebrated in 2000. It falls on
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St Nicholas and Santa Claus
We might not recognise it, but our modern Christmas celebration owes much to St Nicholas. Not to mention that his
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Advent and Advent Calendars
“The Lord Will Come and not be Slow”(John Milton) Ah, Advent! The season when children’s faces and some adults’ faces,
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Autumn traditions and their lexicon
For convenience, the weather people kickstart autumn by inaugurating it on 1 September. But the first astronomical day of autumn
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Fairies & folklore: some of literature’s most famous forests
Forests have captured our imaginations for as long as they’ve been standing. In Collins Dictionary, a forest is defined as
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