Adding a post on stress just now, I wrote:
Amongst whatever else it's the day for, 2nd November is National Stress Awareness Day. (It seems like every day of the year is a day for something these days. Why, it's enough to stress you out.)
So I took a quick look to see exactly what national days and weeks there are. As you might suspect there are a mind-boggling number. Here's the list of 50 odd for November:
Alcohol Awareness Week
Anti-Bullying Week
Ask Your Pharmacist Week
Buy Nothing Day
Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week
CASS Carers Cafe
Commute Smart Week
Computer Security Week
Dress Spotty Day
Dyspraxia Awareness Week
Enterprise Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week
Indoor Allergy Week
Interbational Day for Tolerance
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Mouth Cancer Action Month
Mouth Cancer Week
National Adoption Week
National Antiques Week
National Freelancers Week
National Kindness Day
National Maintenance Week
National Novel Writing Month
National Pathology Week
National Road Safety Week
National School Meals Week
National Stress Awareness Day
National Tree Week
National Youth Work Week
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Psoriasis Awareness Week
Road Safety Week
Self Care Week
Universal Children’s Day
White Ribbon Campaign UK
White Ribbon Day
World COPD Awareness Day
World Day opf Rememberance for Road Traffic Victims
World Diabetes Day
World Hello Day 1
World Radiography Day
World Television Day
World Toilet Day
World Town Planning Day
World Vegan Day
For more her are just a couple of the sites I found:
Tags for Forum Posts: national days, national weeks
Could it be that GK Chesterton had a point after all? "When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing - they believe in anything." Still, glad to see that Project Britain's National Days still include All Hallows and Armistice Day.
Time we had an October Bank Holiday for National Maintenance of Awareness of Remembrance Awareness Week.
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