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London Ice Sculpting Festival 2014
Today marks the start of London Ice Sculpting Festival 2014. Held in Canary Wharf, this annual event encourages ice sculptors from all over the world to dust off their chisels and compete against each other to create one of the festival’s best ice based masterpieces – it really is a sight to behold! Here’s the sort of thing you can expect from this year’s festival…
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London International Mime Festival 2014
There’s an innovative arts festival happening in London from 8th January – it’s not what you say, it’s what you do! Now in it’s 37th year, London International Mime Festival 2014 is the longest running event of its type in the world, with mime companies from all over Europe bringing their skills to our capital. Read on to find out why you should see it for yourself…
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We’re Celebrating National Bird Day With Some Crazy Bird Facts
You might not have known, but it’s National Bird Day – a day dedicated to the preservation of our inspirational feathered friends. To celebrate, we’ve collected some wonderful and startling facts about birds for you to enjoy. Eggs are a great source of nutrition, even for birds! Wild birds will often eat ‘dud’ eggs, so as not to let all that calcium and other nutrients go to waste. Even egg shells are nutritious, so these also get eaten once eggs have hatched. A turkey vulture has a very odd way of protecting itself from potential danger. When threatened, it defends itself by puking up its last meal – this…
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Three Popular New Year’s Resolutions
The New Year has finally arrived! After a very busy and fun-filled festive period, it’s time to start anew and that can only mean one thing – it’s time to pick those all-important New Year’s resolutions. To help you beat those post-Christmas blues, here are three popular New Year’s resolutions that may just offer you a little inspiration for 2014…
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Christmas Stories: How Five Bloggers #ExperienceChristmas
All this month, we’ve been on a mission to find out how people around the UK experience Christmas. So before we clock off for the festive season ourselves, we asked five brilliant bloggers what happens in their house at this time of year. Here are their Christmas stories – you might even get some inspiration along the way…
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Exclusive: Four Easy Vodka Cocktail Recipes for Christmas
This week, we’ll be giving you recipes straight from the experts. Today, our friends at All I Want VIP have laid on four special vodka cocktail recipes for readers of the Red Letter Days blog to enjoy. Pop back tomorrow when L‘Atelier des Chefs will be on hand with a couple of Boxing Day meal ideas. So without further ado, let’s get the party started…
