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European settlement started here with a penal colony. I don't think either the prisoners or the guards found much to be thankful for in the early years!
Indeed, very sad times, very sad.
Oh, we have our share of those holidays. We even get a public holiday for a horse race.
And yet the First Sermon preached by Richard Baxter was on the theme 'How Good Lord to be here'.European settlement started here with a penal colony. I don't think either the prisoners or the guards found much to be thankful for in the early years!
Ahhh.. it doesn't matter... Thanksgiving can just be a generic Holiday... and excuse to get time off work.
Even North Korea can celebrate it, I don't care... lol.
I do not think Paidiske was being ungrudging, but they were sad times,
Back in Ireland, potatoe famine and British rule and being sent away, is sad.
Have some turkey and stuffing and don't think about it too deeply.
You have to be kidding, I would not know where to begin in making that kind of meal.
I am not what's that guy's name, Jamie something.
Haha.
Jamie Oliver I was thinking of.
Given that the glorious liberty of the Gospel was first proclaimed here accompanied by men in chains, one can but wander what the convicts thought of the sermon.
Yes started in the 15oo's. Something to do with an early English explorer and a sermon and meal of thanksgiving, and a few years later more traditionally French settlers created the 'order of good cheer' and dined with the natives.That's interesting. I've heard Canada has their own version of Thanksgiving.
We but the turkey roast in the foil tray and cook it on the BBQ. Great result, minimal effort, and the boys say they don't eat turkey, but as yet there has been none left for sandwiches on the Feast of Stephan.I have never dared try to cook turkey, but I am quite fond of duck. Do you think I could get away with that as a substitute?
I did my sisters in the garage with a hammer and a nail.That sounds like a suitably enculturated Australian Christmas.
Sigh. It's my daughter's birthday tomorrow, and the present she requested was to have her ears pierced. It is proving difficult to find somewhere willing to pierce ears given the Covid situation.
Perhaps she will settle for a certificate promising said results when conditions change?
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