Are we superstitious?
With another Friday 13th looming I am interested to find out how many of us are superstitious and why some of these ideas came into common use. The over-65s are the most superstitious group of all, wi ...
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Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday
Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on ...
The legend of St Valentine
Here we are at the beginning of February, but already I am fed up with the Valentine’s Day merchandising in the shops and restaurants pressurising us to enjoy a romantic meal. So I have done some rese ...
Do you remember your collective nouns from schooldays?
Collective nouns are words that often come up in quizzes and crossword puzzles. Most of us will remember from school having to learn the correct word to describe a group of something such as a Pride ...