To my dear family and friends, I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving! I’ve been terrible with updating this blog and I’m sorry to those of you who keep up with me mainly by reading about my exploits. I’ll try to be a bit better about it, but no promises. Things are fluid and I kind of hate pretending they’re concrete. Updating and saying anything seems so definitive, and it seems dishonest because it isn’t definitive. That said, I do owe you an update on my trip to Canterbury and Dover which happened about a month ago!

The Thanksgiving celebrations in the UK are a bit scant, obviously! I’m missing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which is surprising as it’s something I usually watch only grudgingly at 9am. I’m missing my family, which goes without saying. I’m missing the glories of antipasto! However, I’ve decided today still marks the start of the Christmas season, much as it would if I were home. Granted, at the time I’m writing this Santa probably still hasn’t gone down the parade route so I’m a few hours early. Also, we’re having an expat North American Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. We’ve combined US and Canadian Thanksgiving and are throwing in a fair few people of other nationalities who just like to eat tasty food. I’m providing the stuffing, though I’ve been unable to find good Italian sausage so it’s not my Nana’s delicious stuffing, just some boxed stuff. We’ve got some vegetarians at dinner, so perhaps it’s good that we’re not throwing meat into everything!

I hope this Thanksgiving finds you with plenty of things to be grateful for. I love you and miss you.

(And never forget that Jamestown was settled before Plymouth! An infinitely better settlement, that Jamestown :P) Edit: My dad has pointed out to me that President Bush has given his Thanksgiving address from Berkeley Plantation in VA this year. The site of the first Thanksgiving in America! Boo friggen yah. Very rarely do I say this about Bush, but good for him.