Expat Thanksgiving, as anyone will tell you, is always a little bit of a challenge. There is the sourcing of ingredients like canned pumpkin, cornflour, and cranberries. There is the logistical challenge of making sure you have enough pans to cook all the multitudinous requisite dishes. (I may have created a Gantt chart for this. … Continue reading
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Independence Day in London
I don’t know how many of you have ever celebrated your nation’s independence day in the capital city of the nation from which your own nation emancipated itself (stick with it, it makes sense!) but it definitely feels a bit funny. This isn’t the first 4th of July I’ve spent in England, but for some … Continue reading
Entmoot
Okay, it wasn’t really Entmoot. But that’s what I kept thinking in my head every time I heard the term Ward Mote, which is what I actually went to on Monday afternoon. Entmoot, as I am sure you know, is the fictional meeting of tree-like creatures called Ents in Tolkein’s famous fantasy series Lord of … Continue reading
