The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is celebrated over eight days and nights, starting on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. This year, that falls on Sunday 22nd December. ‘Hanukkah’ is the Hebrew word for ‘dedication’. The festival was given this...
This year, between 23rd November and 1st December, Britain will be holding National Tree Week. This annual event aims to encourage the people of the UK to plant as many new trees as possible. First introduced in 1975, the initiative began as a response to the...
An unreliable narrator is an untrustworthy fictional character. This character, often the main protagonist, is either deliberately deceptive or unintentionally misguided; forcing the reader to question their credibility as a storyteller – and therefore the direction...
It can’t have escaped your attention that there is great concern over the decline of the honey bee. And so there should be. Bees, honey or otherwise, are a vital part of our ecosystem, and have been for thousands of years. Without bees, there would be a worldwide...
Born on 11th August, 1887 in London, Enid Blyton wrote close to 800 stories. She had sold 600 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1968. In fact, she continues to sell in large numbers to this day. As recently as 2008, a staggering 40 years after her...
