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ley hill solutions improves the way your organisation performs by developing solutions that are right for you, using
internationally recognised standards and frameworks, such as
ISO9001
and the
EFQM Excellence Model
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ley hill solutions and the World's Largest Cracker
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Guiness World Records states on their website that "The world's longest Christmas cracker measured 63.1 m (207 ft) long and 4 m (13 ft) in diameter and was made by the parents of children at Ley Hill School and Pre-School, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK on 20 December 2001.
The cracker contained balloons, toys, a hat (2.5 in diameter) and a joke. The cracker was pulled by children of the school and members of Saracens Rugby Club and went bang."
What it doesn't say is that ley hill solutions sponsored the event and helped build the cracker and we are very gratified to know that the record has not yet been broken!
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Newsletter
December 2017
Christmas Quiz
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Season's Greetings to you.
I hope like us, after a busy year, you will be able to wind down and take a well earned break as everything closes down for the festive season.
With that in mind, see if you can spare a couple of minutes to enjoy our quick Christmas Quiz. Questions and Answers are below. And if when you've read them you're wondering why we seem to have a keen interest in Christmas crackers - see our article below left.
All of us at ley hill solutions wish you all the very best for the coming Christmas holiday season, however you are spending it, and a happy and successful 2018.
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- How fast does Santa have to travel to make all his deliveries?
- What officially constitutes a White Christmas in the UK?
- Do you know what Santa Claus is called in European counties other than the UK? See if you can come up with more examples than we've got.
- Who invented the Christmas cracker?
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Christmas Quiz Answers
1. US have scientists calculated that Santa would have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all the world's presents on Christmas Eve, travelling at 650 miles a second.
 2. For a Christmas to be officially classified as "white" a single snow flake needs to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25th December on the rooftop of the Met Office HQ in London. During the 20th century there were only seven official white Christmases in the UK.
3. Examples throughout Europe of other names for Santa Claus are Kriss Kringle in Germany, Le Befana in Italy, Pere Noel in France and Deushka Moroz (Grandfather Frost) in Russia.
 4. The Christmas cracker was invented by a London sweet shop owner called Tom Smith. In 1847, after spotting French bonbons wrapped in paper with a twist at each end, he sold similar sweets, wrapped in bright colours with a "love motto" inside. These soon became very popular at Christmas time, especially when he started including little gifts such as jewellery and miniature dolls. However, it was not until 1858 that his log fire finally sparked the inspiration for what was to become the first Christmas cracker. The story has been told in many ways, but the general opinion seems to be that as Tom was half-dozing before his fire, a loud crackling and popping of one of the logs in the grate caused him to wake with the cry 'bangs for bonbons!' By 1900 his "Bangs of Expectation" were selling at the rate of 13 million a year and the Christmas cracker has been a popular tradition ever since.
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Sincerely,
Graham Hull
ley hill solutions limited
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