Jeg velger meg April

I LOVE APRIL!!!!! 

so here's my ode to this lovely month... all of it "stolen" material... well except for the pictures... lolz

Drip, drip, drop
Little April shower
Beating a tune
As you fall all around

Drip, drip, drop
Little April shower
What can compare
To your beautiful sound

Drip, drip, drop
When the sky is cloudy
Your pretty music
Can brighten the day

Drip, drip, drop
When the sun says howdy
You say goodbye right away

Drip, drip drop
Little April shower
Beating a tune
Ev'rywhere that you fall

Drip, drip drop
Little April shower
I'm getting wet
And I don't care at all

Drip, drop, drip, drop
I'll never be afraid
Of a good little
Gay little
April serenade

Jeg velger meg april
I den det gamle faller,
i den det ny får feste;
det volder litt rabalder,-
dog fred er ei det beste,
men at man noe vil.

Jeg velger meg april,
fordi den stormer, feier,
fordi den smiler, smelter,
fordi den evner eier,
fordi den krefter velter,- i den blir somren til!
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


April er den første måneden i sommerhalvåret! 14. april er selveste sommerdagen. Fra denne dagen starter sommerhalvåret. April er ikke en sommermåned, men markerer starten på sommerhalvåret. Derimot er april synonymt med vår og vårmåneden fremfor noen. Den er lys og full av liv over alt. På Svalbard er det midnattssol fra 20. april. Ikke rent få mennesker synes våren er den beste av alle årstider.

April was the second month in an early Roman calendar, but became the fourth when the ancient Romans started using January as the first month. The Romans called the month Aprilis. It may come from a word meanting 'to open', or it may come from Aphrodite, the Greek name for the goddess of love.

Small animals that hibernate are usually coming out of their burrows in April. The birds fly back northward or they settle down to have their families. The bees and butterflies begin to gather nectar from the first flowers of the season.

In some parts of the world, it's planting time. In other parts, it's the harvest season. Professional baseball begins in April. Then the amateur athletes begin to go outside in the warm weather. Spring cleaning starts and people start mowing their yards again.

Special days celebrated in April begin with the first day of April, when children and grown-ups play jokes on one another. 

Arbor Day is a day for planting trees, and it is observed on various April days. The Jewish festival of Pescah (Passover) is celebrated early in April. Easter is almost always in April, and, with it comes other Christian celebrations such as Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday,and Good Friday. 

April Fools' Day, or All Fools' Day, is the first day of April. No one knows where the custom began, but some historians believe it started in France. They had a New Year's festival that was celebrated from March 25 to April 1, and they would then exchange gifts. But, later, King James IV changed the holiday to January 1 for New Years. The people that still celebrated it April 1 were called 'April fish' and sent mock presents.

April Fools' Day may also be related to the ancient Roman spring festival Hilaria, which celebrates the resurrection of the god Attis. AND my favorite literary characters, well, almost, the Weasley Twins have their birthday on this day (at least according to JK Rowling!)



The Anglo-Saxons called April Oster-monath or Eostur-monath. The Venerable Bede says that this month is the root of the word Easter. He further speculates that the month was named after a goddess Eostre whose feast was in that month. St George's day is the twenty-third of the month; and St Mark's Eve, with its superstition that the ghosts of those who are doomed to die within the year will be seen to pass into the church, falls on the twenty-fourth. In China the symbolic ploughing of the earth by the emperor and princes of the blood takes place in their third month, which frequently corresponds to our April. The Finns called (and still call) this month Huhtikuu, or 'Burnwood Month', when the wood for beat and burn clearing of farmland was felled.
The "days of April" (journées d'avril) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the procès d'avril.

The birthstone of April is the diamond, and the birth flower is typically listed as either the Daisy or the Sweet Pea.

April starts on the same day of the week as July in all years, and January in leap years.


And finally there's about a million holidays and events in April: 22nd - EARTH DAY!!!!!8th   - Buddha's birthday23rd - Saint George's Day23rd - World Book Day,one of the UN days30th - KoninginneDag in the Netherlands15th - Tax day (in the US)16de - Magnusmesse – Dagen for Norges eneste offisielle helgen
Magnus Erlendsson (ca. 1076-1115) ble født på Orknøyene nord for Skottland og var av norsk ætt. Han er den eneste av de gamle norske helgenen som har blitt kanonisert av paven.30th - Valborgsaften – heksenatt og vårfest i Sverige
Valborgsaften er dagen før Valborgsmesse og en kveld for feiring av våren med bål og mye bråk for Valborgsaften er også den kvelden heksene flyr til heksesabbat på Blocksberg i Tyskland.