Today Norfolk celebrated Thanksgiving. This Norfolk tradition dates back to a time when American whalers were living and working on the island. Today was also a public holiday and oh how lovely it was to have a day at home together, midway through our busy week!
For dinner tonight we enjoyed a "traditional" Thanksgiving meal; turkey, baked veggies and cranberry sauce! It was a little ad hoc, we weren't really organised. Truth be told, we bought one of those Ingham brand frozen turkey rolls from the supermarket. On the box it said 100% turkey so I figured it would be OK. It wasn't until we were cooking it tonight that we discovered the advertising on the box wasn't quite what it claimed! I won't bore you with the list of extra dodgy ingredients, but lets just say the actual content of turkey meat was around 75%!!!!!!!! Ewwwww. We won't be buying that again.
I love the sentiment behind this celebration. It's important to put the daily grind on pause and reflect on how fortunate we are. Our family certainly has plenty to be thankful for - even dodgy turkey meat!
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
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| Normally we decorate our Christmas tree on December first, but somehow it made better sense to bring our plans forward by a day. |
5 comments:
i love thanksgiving ! We had American friends in the Uk and we took turns outdoing each other ! Its where my nickname Martha came from !! ha ha ! Classic re the turkey roll ! I know exactly what horrible things are added - it still tastes ok though ! We are hoping to put up our decorations on YOUR birthday ! Happy Birthday for tomorrow my little cousin ! xx
p.s i love the wooden tree - i have alot of ceramic ornaments from Germany that would look great on that !
It's cool isn't it. Ben's Dad made it. It is a German-inspired decoration, so you should give me your German ornaments to hang on it ha ha!!!! Thanks for the birthday wishes. I've been lamenting this getting old caper. I've been saying "I might as well be turning 40, seeing as I'm halfway there already". I've obviously said it too often because Till made me an early b'day card today that said "Happy 40th Birthday Mum". Ha - funny kid.
ha ha ha ! mmm no to the decorations !! though... now i'm tempted to make one - maybe for next year !!! It really is lovely ! Michelle do not age yourself ! You still look 20 ! Matilda is a classic - shows you how much they listen and take in !! Have a great day tom xx
Cool pics! We also put up our tree today but only because Austin just wouldn't stop hassling - we aren't decorating it until tommorow though. I can't believe how much cool christmas stuff you have - I thought you had to leave most of it behind in Aus - priorities hey!! I know how you feel, I love Christmas!!! Was just looking at our undecorated tree earlier and thinking how nice it was and I wish it could stay up all year...
ps/ HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR TOMORROW YOU YOUNG THING!!! xo
Love the pics. My red tree is decorated Nordic style this year. I will try and send you a pick although if you keep an eye out on Bron's blog it may turn up soon.
Great news Alex is home from Afghanistan today. Yeah
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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