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On Celebrating Chinese New Year: the year of the dog

On Celebrating Chinese New Year: the year of the dog

by Maria Tumolo | Feb 21, 2018 | Carnival, Chinese New Year, Diversity, Family Meals, Family Recreation, Festivals, Lifestyle, London

Chinese New Year fell on the week of school half-term this year. I seized to opportunity for us to mark the occasion with family days out, as well as arts and crafts. In a previous post, I talked about the challenge of celebrating our cultural heritage in February....
Culture Clash

Culture Clash

by Maria Tumolo | Feb 5, 2018 | Chinese New Year, Expat, Family Traditions, Festivals, Lifestyle, London, Mixed Heritage, Multicultural

February is a tricky month for our family, that’s when our cultures clash. It’s the month of Chinese New Year, Shrove Tuesday and Carnival in Trinbago. It’s a challenge to celebrate it all with the children sometimes. England is their country of birth. Pancakes...
A Chinese New Year menu preview at the Chinese Cricket Club Restaurant

A Chinese New Year menu preview at the Chinese Cricket Club Restaurant

by Maria Tumolo | Jan 19, 2017 | Chinese New Year, Festivals, Fine Dining

There’s a culinary gem in London’s historic Square Mile, nestled inside the Crown Plaza London Hotel. It’s the Chinese Cricket Club Restaurant on New Bridge Street. The hotel was built on the foundations of King Henry VIII’s former Bridewell Palace and the...
#R2BC: Reasons to be Cheerful

#R2BC: Reasons to be Cheerful

by Maria Tumolo | Feb 13, 2014 | Blog hop, Child Development, Chinese New Year, Social Media

It was wonderful to see blue skies today, although it will do little to help the families suffering from flooding up and down the country.  More bad weather is set to come, in the face of such gloom I hope the families get the help they need soon. Things have been...
The Year of the Horse: a celebration of Chinese New Year 2014 in craft

The Year of the Horse: a celebration of Chinese New Year 2014 in craft

by Maria Tumolo | Feb 9, 2014 | Chinese New Year, Festivals, Multicultural, Music, Toddler Play, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

Since becoming a parent, this Chinese New Year, Year of the Horse, was the first that did not coincide with Trinidad Carnival. Usually Angelo and I would watch a few clips of Trinidad Carnival. We’d do some Chinese New Year inspired craft, while listening  to...
Chinese New Year 2013: When Tiger and Snake became friends

Chinese New Year 2013: When Tiger and Snake became friends

by Maria Tumolo | Apr 4, 2013 | Blasian, Build A Bear Workshop, Chinese New Year, Festivals, Multicultural, Snakes

If you go by the Chinese calendar, 2013 is the Year of the Snake.  The year runs from 10 February 2013 – 30 January 2014. This year’s element is water. As the story goes many moons ago in China there was no means of telling one year from the next. The Jade Emperor...
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