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Gung hei fat choy! Today marks the beginning of a fifteen day celebration to mark the Year of the Rat. 7th February is a new moon and the festival will end with the full moon on Friday 22nd February -the Lantern Festival.
Those rats amongst us will now be 1, 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, [...]

Here’s a note I received from an acquaintance who has recently been in Nairobi, Kenya and is now in Zimbabwe. Both countries are currently experiencing social upheaval:
Welcome to Zimbabwe
This is the second time I’ve typed this general email to you all. The first time the electricity supply cut off just as I hit send. The [...]

Use up the eggs because we’re all going to start fasting (!?). This week marks the beginning of Lent. The original idea was that rich, luxury foods would be used up so that everyone could have a good old fast and wear hesian shirts etc… until 40 days and night had passed and the Easter [...]

Apparently Live and Kicking weren’t too happy with the prospect of allowing spunky rock band Muse to play their kiddies’ program live (and kicking), so the World’s Greatest Miming Performance then ensued.

In the past week, Britney Spears has come in for a lot of criticism, and has been the subject of much debate.
There have been questions and recriminations flying around the media in unequal measure. However, The World’s Greatest Blog can explain Britney’s recent misfortune: she has been tipped over the edge by the rising tide [...]

I noted with interest yesterday the reaction to the death of Jeremy Beadle.
A couple of months ago, we featured the “Eulogy Song” from Chaser’s War on Everything which suggests that even bastards become heroes after death. While I’m in no way saying that Jeremy Beadle was a bastard, not at all, it was funny to [...]