Monthly Archives: January 2021

Today is Backward Day. The day when reactionaries the world over celebrate the defeat of progressive measures designed to improve life for the mass of people? I’m inclined to think this isn’t its meaning since it would seem to be … Continue reading →

Today is Inane Answering Message Day. The instigators of this unusually pointless Day suggest we get ‘creative, funny or silly’ with our messages. Do I need to point out that ‘inane’ is very different from ‘creative’, ‘funny’ or even ‘silly’ … Continue reading →

Today is Fun at Work Day, Puzzle Day, Curmudgeons Day and Freethinkers Day. What riches. Were these pulled out of a hat, chosen at random by a rogue algorithm, or scrupulously selected by a demented clown?January is also Hobby Month, … Continue reading →

It’s Global Community Engagement Day today. A chance to work with other members of one’s community to campaign on the climate crisis, for example. But not just today; action on the other 364 days would be good. Well, more than … Continue reading →

Today is National Geographic Day. Should that be Alexander von Humboldt Day? Probably best to have that on his birthday, September 14th.  He was born in 1769, one month after Napoleon and a few months after Wellington.I should also mention … Continue reading →

Today is Australia Day. And Spouse’s Day. A promising enough pairing, allowing for quite a few permutations. Take your spouse to Australia. Retrieve your spouse from Australia. Should you marry someone simply because they own Australia? And so on.

On this Day in 1817 Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola (Cinderella) premiered in Rome. On January 25th 1954, exactly 137 years later, Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood was broadcast on BBC radio, with Richard Burton as First Voice

Today is the International Day of Education. Statement by the UN:“The closure of schools, universities and other learning institutions [due to covid-19], as well as the interruption of many literacy and lifelong learning programmes, has affected the lives of 1.6 … Continue reading →

Today is Handwriting Day. Let’s support that by turning off all digital devices immediately. And throwing our typewriters out of the window. Irresponsible, you say? I never invited you to loiter beneath my window, did I? But I’m encouraged that … Continue reading →

Today is Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day. Really, I haven’t made that up. If I had I’d have called it Cat’s/Cats’ Questions Day, for those lucky folk who have a houseful. More pertinently, on this day in 1971 John Lennon … Continue reading →