恭喜發財!!! Happy New Year!

恭喜發財!!! Happy New Year! 祝您龍馬精神,心想事成,身體健康! Wishing you great strength and spirit, that your heart's wishes come true and good health!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :D

Wishing everyone a very Happy and Prosperous 2014!

Happy ThanksGiving!

Wishing all my American readers a very Happy ThanksGiving holiday!  Here is a small gift from our very own Stephen Fry:

Miley Cyrus as a Thanksgiving twerky: you have been warned pic.twitter.com/9vVYPGR4Eb
— Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) November 27, 2013

Heheheh! Have a wonderful holiday! :-)

Happy Halloween!

Hope you are having a great one whereever you are, and despite of the weather!

We spruced up our pumpkin and made pumpkin chiffon cake using the pumpkin flesh and seeds:

Still have lots of seeds left!

And we made ghosty cupcakes using icing sugar and marzipan - these have already been taken by the trick'o'treaters!

Happy Halloween!

China's National Day (国庆节)

The Parterre especially created to celebrate China's 2013 National Day

On the 1st of October of this year, China celebrated National Day and the 64th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.  Special ceremonies include the raising of the flag and the nation's leaders paying tribute at the Monument of the People's Heroes.  

China's National Day marks the start of two weeks public holiday and there are many festivals, including fireworks and concerts.  You can see videos of the ceremony at Tiananmen Square and watch the festivities here.

(Contrast this to the non-existent National Day of England: St. George's Day - a day that passes by without so much as a rainy garden tea party!  Why doesn't England have a National Day? :( )