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 August
- Pagan festival of Lammas (Lughnasadh)
- Summer bank holiday on last Monday (for most of the UK)
- UK School holidays and family holiday time
- Grouse shooting opens on the Glorious Twelfth
- The month was renamed in honour of Roman Emperor Augustus
- Edinburgh Festival
- Royal National Eisteddfod
- Notting Hill Carnival
- 27th is the official date when Julius Caesar invaded Britain
- Feast of the Assumption