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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
