What is currently on your mind?

[Robban]

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.

 

[MehGuy]

Indeed, very sad times, very sad.

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.

 

[Paidiske]

Oh, we have our share of those holidays. We even get a public holiday for a horse race.

 

[MehGuy]

Oh, we have our share of those holidays. We even get a public holiday for a horse race.

Cool. What is this horse race?

 

[Paidiske]

There are different ones depending where you live. The most famous is probably the Melbourne Cup.

 

[Philip_B]

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!

And yet the First Sermon preached by Richard Baxter was on the theme 'How Good Lord to be here'.

This may have reflected of the discomforts of the voyage, so recently concluded, or perhaps we beat the French, or perhaps reflecting of the beauty of Sydney Cove. 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.

 

[Robban]

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.

 

[MehGuy]

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.

 

[Robban]

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.

 

[MehGuy]

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.

Buy a turkey and throw it in the oven... I don't know how stuffing is made because I'm a degenerate... but I think it has to do with croutons and potatoes being mixed together. With an unhealthy dose of sodium to keep them together.

 

[Paidiske]

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.

Indeed. It was not a time in which the Establishment commended itself to the hearts of the most vulnerable. I have often pondered the irony of boy choristers singing the Magnificat, evening after evening, in stunningly beautiful cathedrals and fine robes and exquisite musical settings, while outside the doors of those cathedrals the very people the Magnificat names as the locus of God's concern were ignored by the great and the good...

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?

 

[timothyu]

That's interesting. I've heard Canada has their own version of Thanksgiving.

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.

 

[Philip_B]

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?

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.

 

[Paidiske]

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.

 

[Philip_B]

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.

I did my sisters in the garage with a hammer and a nail.

 

[Paidiske]

That's nice. We're not doing that here.

 

[timothyu]

Perhaps she will settle for a certificate promising said results when conditions change? However the fad these days seems to be pierced arms instead of ears.

 

[timothyu]

Have a sudden urge to do some Cmas baking. But then I'll have to eat it now as there is no room in the freezers (and the stable is too warm)

 

[Paidiske]

Perhaps she will settle for a certificate promising said results when conditions change?

I found somewhere. I was hoping to get it done at a pharmacy, but I've had to book in at a hairdresser that also does piercings. At least I didn't have to resort to the tattoo parlour!

I think I can honestly say I've never had the urge to do any Christmas baking.

 

[timothyu]

At least I didn't have to resort to the tattoo parlour!

That will be next year lol