Snow Festival
One thing that has been conspicuous in its absence (so far) from Durham this year has been snow. After last years deluge I am still hoping for a repeat performance! (I blame Global Warming personally!)
Elsewhere in the world has certainly not had the same problem, namely Hokkaido (Northern Japan) with some amazing ice sculptures on display at the annual Snow Festival.
Photo (c) Associated Press 2005 – Large version here.
Varying from replicas of famous Japanese and foreign architectural pieces to depictions of imaginary world, hundreds of sculptures made with white snow and ice create a fantasy atmosphere … the festival has grown to Hokkaido’s biggest winter event and attracts more than 2 million visitors annually.
Photo (c) Associated Press 2005 – Large version here.
Pretty spectacular, especially the attention to detail! Thanks to an anonymous insider for the cool pictures!
Elsewhere [Translation] in the world some crazy Germans have been recycling old computers into ‘art’. I especially like the idea of the real life computer bug which rather contradicts the time when I had to explain to someone that computer bugs were in software rather than real living organisms!
As a side note it’s Chinese New Year’s eve today as well as Panacake day (in the UK at least)! Lots of good food tonight i hope 
Here ends the year of the monkey!
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Woohoo
nice blog
Here end the year of the Monkey Boy? :p
Haha, I've eaten so much delicious food tonight I can't even remember what it all was!
It is difficult to write it in English, so i write the food's name in Chinese. 乌冬é¢( wu dong noodle), 年糕( nian gao), pancake!
Wonder who the anonymous was
Yes, I wonder also…! Very useful to know someone with access to the AP feed!