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 October
- Noreen’s birthday
- My late Mother’s birthday
- Birthstone: Opal
- Halloween
- End of summertime on last Sunday
- Eighth month of Roman year
- St Luke’s Day
- English Pudding Season starts
- Greenwich Mean Time introduced 1884
- Battle of Hastings 1066 (above)