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 May
- May Day …
- … which is also the pagan festival of Beltane
- May Day holiday, which in the UK naturally doesn’t fall on May Day but the first Monday
- Spring bank holiday which falls on the last Monday and replaces the old Ascension Day holiday
- Both my parents died in May: Father in 2006 and Mother in 2015
- State Opening of Parliament
- Helston Furry Dance (above)
- Dedicated to Roman goddess Maia
- Oak Apple Day
- Birthstone: Emerald