This year our Ten Things series is focusing on each month in turn. The Ten Things may include facts about the month, momentous events that happened, personal things, and any other idiocy I feel like – just because I can. So here are …
Ten Things about January
- Surprise, surprise! … It’s New Year
- Then there’s Twelfth Night
- And my birthday
- And Epiphany
- The month was originally dedicated to Roman god Janus
- Birthstone: Garnet
- January corresponds to the Anglo-Saxon Wolf Month
- Burns’ Night, when the Scots celebrate their national poet by eating haggis and drinking whisky, is on 25th
- First recorded lottery was held in England in 1569
- 31st is allegedly sacred to the Valkyries and the Norns
