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 April
- In most years Easter falls in April
- All Fool’s Day
- New financial year in UK
- St George’s Day
- The birth (allegedly) & death of William Shakespeare
- First cuckoos & swallows normally arrive in UK
- Start of asparagus season
- Buddhist Hanamatsuri (Buddha’s birthday)
- Start of cricket season
- Walpurgis Nacht on 30th