• Calendar dates 2013
    Lifestyle

    Five Unusual Dates for Your Diary in 2013

    Whether celebrating birthdays, anniversaries or Valentine’s Day, there are some events that are stuck in our minds and diaries (or should be, perhaps). But away from the more personal events of the year are a variety of more unusual dates celebrating all manner of weird, wonderful and peculiar things. Here are some of our favourites for the year ahead… National…

  • Lifestyle

    We’re Celebrating… National Dress Your Pet Up Day!

    Whether you’re crazy for cats or canines, you’ll be happy to know that 14th January is National Dress Your Pet Up Day. So we thought we’d brighten up a grey, snowy, January day and celebrate the occasion by sharing some more funny snaps of our furry friends in costumes. Thanks to Red Letter Days staff Dan Sorensen and Sara Perry for…

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    Adventure

    Got a Head for Heights? Try These Sky High Experiences…

    Ever since the Wright Brothers pioneered the first human flight in 1903, people have been taking to the skies in the name of travel, fun and a good old adrenaline rush. In fact, 78 years ago today on 11th January 1935, the US pioneer Amelia Earhart started her flight across the Pacific from Honolulu in Hawaii to California, and in doing so,…

  • Lifestyle

    Five New Hobbies to Try in January

    Each January, people get busy making New Year’s resolutions for the coming year (we’ll be letting you know some of ours on Wednesday). And every year we come up with the same old answers – lose weight, do more exercise, quit smoking or drink less alcohol. So instead of the usual ambitions this year, why not learn a new hobby…

  • News & Events

    Happy New Year!

    …And we’re back for 2013! We hope you all had a lovely break over Christmas and New Year, and that you ended up getting everything you wanted. If you’re struggling to get back into the swing of things after the break, take a look at the discounted gift experiences in our annual January Sale. You could use the offers to…