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 June
- June marks the start of meteorological Summer
- Dedicated to Juno, Roman goddess of marriage
- Magna Carta signed on 15 June 1215
- Summer Solstice …
- … which is the longest day
- Midsummer’s Day is on the Feast of St John Baptist, and not at the Solstice
- Well dressing, which is still practised in Derbyshire
- Trooping the Colour (above) is part of the Queen’s Official Birthday celebrations
- Ratcatchers Day, Hamelin, Germany
- Birthstone: Pearl