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Monthly Archives: May 2010

 
 

How your Chinese lanterns work

Although it might seem as though Chinese lanterns work by magic (a common misconception, established by the stunning way in which they float into the night), it is not so. We’ve done our science homework, and have discovered that it is in fact a handy convection current that helps them to fly away, never to [...]

 
 

Biodegradation and Chinese lanterns

We love the environment, and so do our Chinese lanterns, which is why they happily biodegrade once they fall to earth having mostly burnt out whilst in flight. As we fancy ourselves as great scientific minds (or something similar), we thought we’d give you, our beloved reader, a small lesson in this wondrous process, to help [...]

 
 

Make-a-Wish Foundation® UK’s Summer Ball

It’s summer time, the weather is (generally) better, and we’re all in the mood for a party, particularly when it’s for a great cause. Our favourite charity, Make-A-Wish Foundation® UK, to whom a percentage of our profits go, is holding a fundraiser ball this summer, to raise the much-needed funds to help the charity to [...]

 
 

Chinese lanterns: The Musical

We have often thought that Chinese lanterns would prove to be an excellent basis for a full-scale musical, and have thus enlisted our whole team to begin penning this potentially staggering theatrical feat. So far, along with a loose idea of plot, characters and dramatic development, we’ve come up with a few of the numbers [...]

 
 

Chinese lanterns in famous Top Ten

Little did we know that the celebrity fans of Chinese lanterns are all over the place, so we were completely delighted to discover that the lanterns made into Cameron Bailey’s, the co-director of the Toronto Film Festival, Top Ten Whatevers of 2009. Coming in at number ten, Bailey described how he’d seen Chinese lanterns released [...]