London 2012 Festival: Opens on June 21, 2012

The London 2012 Festival, taking place 21 June –9 September is the finale of the four-year Cultural Olympiad. Complementing the sporting events at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the festival will be the biggest party the UK has ever seen with over 1,000 events taking place all over the UK – many of them free.

Summer Solstice 2012 - When will be the First Day?

Enjoy the first day of Summer this June 20, 2012. 

Summer is the warmest season of the year when the sun shines directly on one half of the world. Summer in the Northern Hemisphere begins about June 21st - the date of the summer solstice. It ends about September 23, the date of the autumnal equinox. Usually, July and August are the hottest months of the summer season. Crops, trees, and other plants reach their full maturity in summer.

When the sun is the high over the Northern Hemisphere, it is low in the Southern Hemisphere. The warmest months in the United States are the coldest months in Australia, and in the southern part of the South America and Africa. The growing season of Australia and Argentina is during the months of December, January, and February. These months compare with June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere. (apples4theteacher.com)

Happy Father's Day - June 17, 2012 (USA, Canada, UK)

Fathers Day for 2012 will be on June 17, 2012. Share your love with your dad and give the very best hug and thanks as they are the one who guides with endless care and love.

Best Father's Day Poems and Quotes

A Dad is 

A Dad is respected because he gives his children leadership. 
A Dad is appreciated because he gives his children care. 
A Dad is valued because he gives his children time. 
A Dad is loved because he gives his children the one thing they treasure most - himself. 

A Place Just For Dad 
We many not shower him with praise 
Nor mention his name in song, 
And sometimes it seems that we forget 
The joy he spreads as he goes along, 
But it doesn't mean that we don't know 
The wonderful role that he has had. 
And away down deep in every heart 
There's a place that is just for Dad... 

Internation Womens Day - MARCH 8,2012

THEME: Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty

Each year around the world, International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8. Thousands of events occur not just on this day but throughout March to mark the economic, political and social achievements of women.

Organisations, governments, charities and women's groups around the world choose different themes each year that reflect global and local gender issues.

"Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures" is the 2012 theme of the internationalwomensday.com website and this has been widely used by hundreds of organisations including schools, universities, governments, women’s groups and the private sector. Each year the United Nations declares an overall International Women's Day theme. Their 2012 theme is “Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty”. Many organisations develop their own themes that are more relevant to their local contexts. For example, the European Parliament's 2012 theme is "Equal pay for work of equal value".

Special Someone

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.  ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We're all a little weird.  And life is a little weird.  And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.  ~Robert Fulghum,True Love

Be My Valentine

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!  ~Thomas Hood


When love is not madness, it is not love.  ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.  ~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

Worlds Best Grandparents

"Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Edward H. Dreschnack
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Jane Howard
"No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Author Unknown
"You don't choose your family.  They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Desmond Tutu
"A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do."
- Grandparents Day Quotes by Lois Wyse