Category: Just for fun

International Women’s Day 2024

Posted on: 8th March 2024, by Alison Kerevan

As Laura highlighted on last year’s IWD, since its launch in 1911, there have been many battles won and sacrifices made by women across the world, working for equality in all spheres.  Today I would like to cheer for something that I think has remained constant for all time.  I would like to celebrate women […]

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World Kindness Day – a reflection…

Posted on: 13th November 2023, by Magrathea

Our lovely Hayley shares her thoughts on what kindness means to Magrathea… November 13th is World Kindness Day, a day celebrated across the world to promote the importance of being kind, not only to ourselves but to each other. In a world where there is so much suffering, hardship and strife, a little kindness goes […]

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World Beekeeping Day 20th May 2023

Posted on: 18th May 2023, by Magrathea

World Beekeeping Day 20/05/2023 Bees are in rapid global decline as a result of habitat loss because of climate change and the impact humans are having on the planet – loss of these hugely important beasts will have huge implications on so many areas of our lives – not least food production. On World Beekeeping […]

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International Women’s Day 2023

Posted on: 8th March 2023, by Laura Moore

International Women’s Day 2023 International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day for celebrating women’s equality in all spheres, not just the workplace and as well as for celebration. It is also time to reflect on the battles won and the sacrifices made to get there. The day has been observed in various forms since the […]

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The invention of the first ever telephone

Posted on: 7th March 2023, by Hayley West

In a world where technology is constantly changing we had to mark the anniversary of where, for our sector, it all started. With the invention of the telephone and first phone call by the pioneering inventor Alexander Graham Bell, 147 years ago! A few years after his groundbreaking invention was patented, Bell was quoted with […]

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