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Mothering Sunday is a British holiday. In modern times it is essentially equivalent to Mother’s Day, which latter name is also increasingly used, but this is a recent development, and its history is quite different.

Mothering Sunday did not begin as a celebration of motherhood, but a synonym of Laetare Sunday in the Christian liturgical calendar. […]

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This whole month has some Chinese event going on somewhere. The Terracotta Army have been guarding the British Museum for a few months now, there are scores of arts and culture events leading up the the Beijing Olympics later this year, and the New Years Celebration. Obviously there are lots of Chinese in the UK. […]

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Yesterday (Feb 5 2008) was Shrove Tuesday, originally a religious celebration, which now in the UK means eating pancakes. According to some Catholic or Christian tradition this is the day before Lent, where you fast and pray for 40 days before Easter. After all that abstinence you can then gorge on hard boiled eggs and […]

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