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Category: dates

  • dating

    Rather belatedly, “Happy New Year!” Why is it that we celebrated new years? After all it’s just another 360 degree rotation of the planet on our orbit of the sun, just like any other. The fact that we have decided to number and name dates does not make them any more special than any other.…

  • dubious dates

    No, not that sort of dates. And not romantic dates… or rather, yes, romantic dates but not that sort of date either. Let me explain. The curmudgeonly part of me occasionally got a bit cynical about some of the anniversaries that are celebrated nowadays. There seems to have been a slide towards esoteric and trivial…

  • important dates

    It seems that the latest trend is to allocate a whole month to raising awareness of issues. It began with ‘Movember’, which I believe started in Australia where men were encouraged to grow a moustache (a ‘mo’) to raise awareness of testicular cancer. We are now in ‘Stoptober’ where people are encouraged to stop smoking.…

  • blank looks

    I use an electronic diary. My life is synchronised between my phone and my computer, so that in theory both of them know what I should be doing. There are disadvantages to electronic diaries compared to paper. Paper does not crash (but it can burn). Paper pages can be easier to turn (but you can’t…

  • >remember, remember…

    >Why are we human beings obsessed with calendars? More specifically, why are we so keen on remembering dates? (Or trying to remember them if we are blokes) We celebrate our birthdays on the same day of the year each year. Married people celebrate the anniversary of the day they were married. In the UK we…