Did you start your day with a bowl of porridge? Whatever you had for breakfast, consider yourself lucky – many others start their day chronically hungry. World Porridge Day is an international event to raise funds for Mary's Meals, a charity that aids starving children in developing countries.
The charity provides nutritious mugs of maize porridge (likuni phala) as part of its daily school feeding programme to more than 1.1 million of the world's poorest children. We suggest you donate to Mary's Meals and celebrate your generosity and Scotland's national dish with an Atholl Brose.
London Bridge moved to Arizona
This day in 1971 today, the town of Lake Havasu City in Arizona debuted a new bridge - London Bridge.
When it became too weak to carry the required volume of London traffic, Arizonan entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the bridge for almost $2.5 million. He then shipped the individually numbered stones from the dismantled bridge to Arizona and rebuilt London Bridge over a local canal, a project that took four years to complete. Visitors can now enjoy a 90-minute tour of the bridge, taking in its World War II strafing scars, and it is second only to the Grand Canyon as a tourist attraction in Arizona.
Today we are toasting the American state that now hosts a British bridge, with an Arizona Breeze, or you may prefer a Bridgetown Daiquiri.
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