Chinese New Year!

[wongkk]

If you are celebrating the lunar New Year, I hope you enjoy your holiday and time off work.

This monkey is part of the (16thC?) plasterwork in the old court (as in court-room) area of Chirk Castle in Wales;  I visited the castle (and took the photo) last year on one of my Northerly trips. The 蟠桃 long life peach does not appear in the original; I

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[ditch_gospel]

That monkey looks so peaceful and content. The added peach does suit him very well. (In contrast, I just saw a video somewhere online tonight about a monkey somewhere in the world who got himself drunk and then started chasing people around with a huge knife. I think I'd rather meet the peach monkey, even if he did steal it