HARI KITTY

Now we know why the tourism marketing people in Macau have been worshipping the false idol of Hello Kitty. There are plans to build a theme park in the territory in honour of the character - to be called, not surprisingly, 'Hello Kitty Land'.

Interestingly (to me at least) the Hello Kitty brand owner, the Japanese company Sanrio, has a biography of the character on its web site, in which it claims Hello Kitty "lives in London, England, with her parents and her twin sister, Mimmy".

I'm really, really hoping the world's 'cutest' character lives in north west London (where quite a few Japanese expats are based) so she can be given the nickname 'Harrow Kitty'.

Thanks to sachsreport.com for the Kitty Idol photo.