Oh, those crazy Finns! In Finland, today is Sleepy Head Day, when the last person still in bed in a house is awoken with a shock of cold water - either a splash from a bucket, or an involuntary dip into one of the country's many lakes and rivers.
In the town of Naantali, one local celebrity will begin the day by being carried, still in nightclothes, to the sea and then dunked. And it's all because of religion. Bizarrely, Sleepy Head Day dates back to a group of Christian saints in Ephesus, who retired to a cave to escape Roman persecution and kipped there for a cool two centuries.
We can think of many more pleasant ways to start the day than a drenching in cold water, one being with a Breakfast Martini, an eminently palatable blend of marmalade, gin and orange.
It's also National Scotch Day
Such a spirituous celebration would normally take top billing on this page, but this celebratory day is surpassed by International Scotch Day (10th February) and World Whisky Day, which was started by Diageo and annoyingly changes date each year to land on a Saturday in mid-May.
However, you can't have too many excuses to appreciate and enjoy Scotch whisky, so we'll be celebrating with a Scotch Sour. And we've also 20 best Scotch whisky cocktails to celebrate with.
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