As the year draws to a close, your Pouring Beans Calendar 2025 is running out of pages. Luckily another one is on the way, and everybody should have their copy ready for the New Year.
This is going to be the sixth consecutive year I’ve had to find just over 310 things that we have said, done, drawn or written to fill the pages of a calendar, meaning I’ve had to find 1565 things already. In my quest for content I thought I would try something new. So in 2026, you can expect a lot of the pages to reference things that have happened on that specific day in the past.
The “on this day” thing proved to be a great way of coming up with things to fill a calendar, but to make it happen I needed to find out what has happened on each day of the year. Obviously I could find old photos and look at the day and time they were taken, which got me a few. But I needed something bigger. I needed nostalgia on an industrial scale. I needed an “on this day” machine.
So I made one, and now you can play with it as well if you like. It’s in a secret location on the Beans server here.
Give it a day of the year and it will find everything that has ever happened on the Beans that day. Every post, every comment, from both New Beans and Old. It will then list them all with the year they happened, from most recent at the top to most elderly at the bottom, and it will give you links to see them in their original homes.
It was just meant to be a means to fill a calendar, but I found it hugely enjoyable and thought you might like to play with it too, so there you are. Enjoy.
4 comments on “On this day”
My shocked eyes are so wide that I can barely fit them in the living room. How on earth did you make such a thing?
This is truely a thing of useless beauty. When the world’s artistic output is appraised at the end of time, this will be right up there with that clock inside a mountain that ticks every 100 years or that hill near Newcastle that’s shaped like a naked woman.
I made it using science and spare bits of internet which I stuck together with Pritt Stick.
I don’t know if it’ll hold everyone’s attention for long but it occurred to me the other day that we could make it a permanent feature of the site like the Bean Counter.
Wait, there’s a hill near Newcastle that’s shaped like a naked woman? Are there pictures of this? Er, for my geological research.