Dear LPG, 

I was taking an early morning stroll through the internet the other day when I came across a couple of facts that I bet a lot of people don’t know.   Well, I didn’t know anyway…

I think that every Londoner knows that after all the revelry that we give to our festivities which comprise the tail-end of our Christmas celebration, the date of the Scottish version of New Year might vary by a day or two. Most will expect the Chinese New Year in late January or early February, and many years ago now I worked with a colleague who taught me a little about his new year, which happens between late October and early November and is called Diwali. 

This morning I found an article which states that there are at least 26 different dates which are referred to as New Year’s Day around the world.  It appears that the moon has a lot to do with many of them and there are also some historical, some traditional, some cultural and many religious reasons which pinpoint them too.

So, the fact that we draw our national line that splits one year from another at the end of each December, is no excuse when it comes to postponing the restart of your failed resolution attempt for the best part of 365 days.    You can schedule your next attempt to do that thing that went wrong not long after the last set of New Year fireworks went off if you choose one of the other New Year’s days, whatever time of the year you mess up.  There are quite a few others to choose from, in fact one article I read on the subject claims that they are as regular as buses, with another one due somewhere around the world roughly once every two months…

BH, Lewisham Park

BH offers some New Year facts…

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