Last weekend Tallulah and I visited the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Now, for those of you unable to to tell the difference between Chinese and English New Year I've supplied the following guide:
Chinese New Year involves an authentic dragon procession while English New Year involves a drunken conga.
Chinese New Year involves firecrackers while English New Year involves damp party poppers.
Chinese New Year involves lighting incense praying to Buddha for good luck while English New Year involves lighting up a cigarette whilst stood in a bus stop praying that your hangover won't be too bad.
(* For Scottish New Year take English New Year and add a) Whiskey and b) Scottish Folk Dancing. If anyone has found a way of preventing Scottish people initiating folk dancing or at least minimising the resulting emotional distress, then please let me know).
Anyway, Tallulah and I had a good time following the procession, eating Chinese food, offering prayers to Buddh
a and enjoying demonstrations of Kung Fu, Dance and Song (whilst trying not to laugh at a particular Chinese cultural instrument that sounds like a duck farting).Anyway, here are some pics.
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