Happy New Year to you all, we hope you had a happy and peaceful Christmas and New Year!
So here we are, 2026…
The start of the year, when we wonder what the next 12 months have in store for us, what changes we can make to improve, enrich and generally make the most of the upcoming year.
January can be viewed as, either be a month of cold dark mornings and evenings, waiting for what seems as forever for payday, or for others, it can be a new start, resolutions, new habits or just improving on the previous. Whatever your motivation, January is a good time to make changes no matter how small.
5th – Twelfth Night
The twelfth day after Christmas and the official end of the Christmas season, 5th Jan is the day when you should have taken all your Christmas decorations down. Mine are still up, but that’s down to laziness more than anything!
14th – World Logic Day
UNESCO’s World Logic Day brings the intellectual history, conceptual significance and practical implications of logic to the attention of interdisciplinary science communities and the broader public.
16th – Global Word Search Day – Great for a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life and keeps the grey matter ticking over.
18th Winnie the Pooh Day – AA Milnes birthday, in the words of Winnie “Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.”
19th Martin Luther King Day – A day which honours the life and legacy of Mr King, a pivotal leader in the American civil rights movement.
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King.
21st Red Squirrel Appreciation Day
Red squirrels are native to the UK but are under threat from invasive grey squirrels. Across the UK as a whole red squirrel numbers are declining, and many conservation projects are monitoring and trying to reverse this decline. Get involved by supporting their conservation, provide food, shelter, manage woodland and report sightings.
21st National Hug Day – you could hug a red squirrel!
Created by Kevin Zaborney, the purpose of the day is to encourage everyone to hug family and friends more often. Always ask permission of course, before hugging someone LOL.
23rd – 25th Big Garden Birdwatch
Organised by the RSPB, just spend an hour watching the birds in your garden, from your balcony or in your local park, and tell them what you’ve seen.
24th International Day of Education
This UN day celebrates of the role of education in peace and development. The UN calls for free and compulsory elementary education, as well as stipulating that countries shall make higher education accessible to all.
25th Burns Night
A celebration of the birthday of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns, or Rabbie to his friends! Celebrated with a Burn’s Night Supper which includes many traditional Scottish dishes and reading of Burns’ poetry. Robert Burns even wrote a poem to the haggis!
Address to a Haggis (a short extract) – Robert Burns – 1786
“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my arm.”
25th St Dwynwen’s Day
St Dwynwen’s Day, or Dydd Santes Dwynwen is the Welsh St. Valentine’s Day, as the saint was the Welsh patron saint of lovers, and the day is a special day dedicated to love in Wales.
27th International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. It remembers not only the victims of the holocaust but of all genocide.
28th International LEGO Day
LEGO Day marks the date when Ole Kirk Christiansen, a Danish inventor, patented the original 2×4 LEGO brick. Celebrate by building a LEGO model – why not create something?
31st International Zebra Day
A day to raise awareness of the conservation issues of Zebras. Zebras are an endangered species which are at risk from habitat loss, hunting for their meat and competition with livestock.
31st – 8th Feb National Storytelling Week
A week for the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling, the very first way of communicating life experiences and the creative imagination.
Borrows a bit of February, but as it begins the last day of Jan…
So, here’s to 2026, the team at Myco Design look forward to working with you all throughout the year, and here’s to partnerships and collaborations