In February we enjoy Chinese New Year celebrations - well I do - with a Take Away from my local Cantonese restaurant. Bit skint this year so I'll celebrate a bit later when my husband gets paid. Lemon Chicken here I come!
Less well know is the Mongolian New Year celebration Tsagaan Sar .
Based on the Lunar calendar the holiday usually falls on or around the full moon in February and is a great celebration for the whole family.
Today I made pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. Very tasty with lashings of Tate and Lyle Golden Syrup. Mmmmmm. Homemade so much better than those rubbery things you warm up in the microwave...........Ah the kitchen beckons...........just a few more?
We NEED these winter celebrations and highlights to keep us going. Just a few more weeks and Spring will be really here or even sooner thanks to Global Warming ?!?! I've been feeding the birds in my garden. The birds are quite picky. They all go for the "Robin Mix" with freeze dried meal worms. Their second favourite is the dried sunflower head with seeds packed in fat pressed into the back of it. They haven't touched the sunflower seeds I scattered on the ground. Oh well - food for rats. The trouble is these birds don't seem that hungry. I've noticed Blue Tits, Great Tits and a Firecrest all feeding on small insects in the trees. Yesterday I had eight Magpies in the garden, not a Sparrow or Blackbird in sight.
How on earth did this post get from Tsagaan Sar to British Garden Birds? I wonder?
Well I've just thought about this too............I looked out of my bedroom window at about 9:30pm. The sky is completely overcast and ORANGE . The joys of the Sodium street light. I wish someone would ban these monstrosities. Why don't we care about light pollution? As pollution types go I suppose light pollution is pretty low on the agenda. It doesn't obviously threaten our health but it threatens our souls our spirits. My children don't believe me when I tell them that you could actually see the Milky Way when I was a child. We camped near Lamorna in Cornwall about six years ago and they were overwhelmed by the stars; actually I was pretty bowled over too. I had forgotten just how starry the sky is - the lesser light!
Tonight I wonder if I will dream of stars, pancakes or distant lands.
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