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 September
- Her and my wedding anniversary
- Also my late parents wedding anniversary a few days before
- Pagan festival of Mabon celebrates the Autumn Equinox
- Michaelmas, or the Feast of St Michael & All Angels
- My late mother-in-law’s birthday
- Meteorological Autumn starts on 1st
- Nothing happened in the UK between 3 and 13 September 1752 ‘cos that’s when the UK changed from the old Julian calendar to our current Gregorian calendar
- Mop (or Hiring) Fairs occurred during September
- Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance (above) takes place on the Monday after 4 September
- Great Fire of London 1666