ALL FOOL'S DAY is an annual celebration commemorated by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

Although disputed, you may find some early reference of an association between the month of April and foolishness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. However, and despite some prior references in the Continent, the earliest believable citation we find on British soil is 1698, when according to John Aubrey several people were tricked into going to the Tower of London to see 'the Lions washed'.

Practical jokes do not seem to have evolved that much since then. Newspapers and social media still try to trick us all with jokes and pranks. If we believe everything we read or hear then we will be searching for Wally and his signature red-and-white stripes in real locations around the world as Goggle intended us to this morning, checking whether prince Harry has engaged in pre-dawn Celtic chanting, opening a bottle of Coca-Cola to taste the new avocado, sourdough and coal flavours or greeting the new recruit fighting crime for the West Yorkshire Police: a pretty long-eared bunny dressed in kevlar among others.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/april-fools-day-2018-news-live-roundup-updating-fake-pranks-headlines-jokes-easter-a8283586.html

I only hope that on reading this latest instalment you do not run and play a prank on your neighbour, though, as all joking should have ceased at midday. Those playing a joke after that time are the 'April fool' themselves.

But whatever you may do and for the rest of today

HAPPY