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International Day of Yoga and Sanskrit words

June 20, 2024

Get those yoga mats out! The twenty-first of June is, to say the least, a rather different ‘day’. It’s not … Continued

June 4, 2024

World Environment Day – 5 June – is a United Nations (UN)-designated day to raise awareness of the manifold environmental

May 2, 2024

Don’t get nettled! Have you ever been stung by a stinging nettle? I bet you have. I’m sure I was

April 9, 2024

Rain, rain, go away! Come again another day! British weather, eh! Who would have it? March this year, though rainy

March 22, 2024

National Puppy Day falls on 23 March, as it has ever since its inaugural year of 2006, but this year

March 19, 2024

Here’s a pub quiz question for you: What’s the only (real) country that is also a verb? Have you got

February 9, 2024

The ninth of February marks World Pizza Day. A day to celebrate that quintessentially Neapolitan dish which has become, er,

December 14, 2023

Which plants I wonder, gentle reader, do you associate with Christmas? I strongly suspect several of this week’s Collins Word

November 8, 2023

Well, that was a cliffhanger and a half, wasn’t it? South Africa has been buzzing with elation ever since the