Black Yak

1st June 2018 by Noor

Father's Day

Did you know Father’s Day has been celebrated on March 19^th (St Joseph’s Day) since the middle ages in Catholic Europe? It then spread across to Latin America by the Spanish and Portuguese, and is often still celebrated on this date.

Although it is generally celebrated on the third Sunday of June in most countries across Europe and America now, Father’s Day still has many different dates of celebration across the world.

Nepal Earthquakes Anniversary

24th April 2018 by Black Yak

Third Anniversary of Earthquakes in Nepal

The 25th April and the 12th May marks three years since the twin earthquakes in Nepal, which killed approximately 9,000 people, injured around 22,000 people and demolished around 600,000 structures in 2015.

Striking near Kathmandu in central Nepal, the earthquakes are also known as the Ghorka earthquakes (named after the district which was the epicentre of the earthquakes).

Third Anniversary of Earthquakes in Nepal

Lifestyle

27th July 2015 by Rupert

Earthquakes in Nepal 2015

The majority of our friends, family and colleagues in Nepal were very fortunate but a few were not and lives were lost.

The scale of the disaster is almost beyond comprehension. You will all have seen the awful and very harrowing pictures on the news from Kathmandu and now, at last, some of the villages outside of the Kathmandu valley. The human suffering just seems to go on and on.