So the Persian New Year 2016 is at 4:30:12 am (London time, natch) on Sunday 20th March. Yup – it’s not the best time of day for a party, but hey ho…. The year will be 1395, and we wish you a JOLLY HAPPY ONE! Nowrooz-et-an-Pyruz! (literally – ‘may your new year be victorious!’) As…
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Nowrooz 1393: A Guide to the Persian New Year
Mrs. Shopkeeper is always a tad possessive with her Nowrooz toys We’ve just opened a new aisle on the website. It focuses on the Persian New Year, or Nowrooz, so we thought it would be helpful to replicate this guide (which normally lives in our Persopaedia) so you know what it is all about. It…
Nowrooz-etan-Pyruz!*
Mrs. Shopkeeper is always a tad possessive with her Nowrooz toys So it’s now 1391. We’d like to wish all of our customers (and potential customers)(oh, all right then, & the rest of you) a happy and prosperous Persian New Year. One which involves a lot more shopping in silly yellow corner shops… *means ‘May…
Nowrooz: the preparations…
Our as yet nameless fish. Twitter naming competition to follow. Sabzeh – wheat sprouts. Mrs. Shopkeeper talks to it to make it grow faster… You want sweets? We’ve got them… Our resident mermaid straightens her headscarf ready for immersion. Haftsin. As you haft never sin it before. Lol. With added plastic swans. Haji Firooz. Aka…
