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British Festivals and important Celebrations in the UK February 2012
Facts and Sayings February | Interactive Calendars 2012 when is .... what date is .... what happens on ..... the date of ... whats on 2010 in the UK Dates Candlemas Day (Christian festival) 2 Feb 2 Feb 2 Feb St Valentine's Day (Christian) A time to tell someone that you love him/her. Both men and women can send cards. Traditionally names are not written on the cards. 14 Feb 14 Feb 14 Feb Brits Awards, UK Awards ceremony for British and international pop.   21 Feb   Jorvik Viking Festival York   11 - 19 Feb   Collop Monday Named after the traditional dish of the day: collops of bacon served with eggs. 7 March 20 Feb 11 Feb Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day (Christian) Christian carnival day on the eve of Ash Wednesday, which begins Lent, a time of fasting and devotions. Pancakes are often served. The day concludes the season of Epiphany. 8 March 21 Feb 12 Feb The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race The races start at 12:30pm at Dray Walk, the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London E1 6QL (nearest Tube: Aldgate East or Shoreditch) 8 March 21 Feb 12 Feb Ash Wednesday (The start of lent, Christian festival) Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the 40-day period known as Lent (the 40 days - excluding Sundays - before Easter Sunday). In Christian churches there are services in which ashes are used to mark a cross on people's foreheads. Some Christians stop eating some type of food during Lent, and use the period for religious thought. 9 March 22 Feb 13 Feb Kissing Friday (the Friday after Ash Wednesday) English schoolboys were once entitled to kiss girls without fear of punishment or rejection, a custom that lasted until at least the 1940s. In Sileby, Leicestershire, Kissing Friday was called Nippy Hug Day. There men could demand a kiss from the woman of their choice, but if their petition was denied, they had the right to 'louse', or pinch, the woman's posterior - perhaps mimicking the pinching of lice? 11 March 24 Feb 15 Feb Leap Day   29 Feb   January <March January February March April May June July August September October November December

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