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Well, the only other Americans we know here came over for Thanksgiving on Thursday. Then they stayed in town until Saturday evening. Feels like I've done nothing but cook since Wednesday night! Giving myself a break with some take & bake... At least they paid for the groceries. Pretty happy overall.
Other good news is that my wife has an interview! If she gets it we'll have to move halfway across England, so we're visiting next month to see if it's a good fit. If you know anything about Leominster I'm all ears.
I spent a lot of my childhood visiting my maternal grandmother in Leominster. It's a nice, small, quiet town, as far as I remember. The chippy is fantastic! Near enough to Hereford too, which is handy. There's a sunflower field somewhere between Leominster and Worcester, which is beautiful. And it's not too far from the Brecon Beacons!
That's the impression I got poking around online. And thanks for the tip about the sunflower field, that sounds magical!
Oh! Christmas, and maybe Halloween - there's an estate up towards the top of Leominster, with a road in it called Pump Piece. We used to visit that road every Christmas and walk around the estate, the houses around there go all out with their Christmas decorations and they're remarkable and unique. Probably quite tacky, but not in the same way that most other majorly decorated houses I've seen - the decorations are different, and cool. I remember one house that seemed to have a projector showing slides of old Christmas art out the front. It's very cute. Awh man I miss Leominster... Or maybe I just miss being a kid 😂
That's actually super good intel, since we're visiting the weekend before Xmas! Thanks. And yeah, it's easy to lose the wonder of youth, but easily rekindled in the right company 😛
Awh no way haha. Enjoy! I hope Leominster treats you well 🙏
I knew one weird German guy who celebrated Thanksgiving, and for some reason he invited me over every year to watch football (go Bazooka Sharks?) and sample his delicious Turkey. We had nothing in common (I don't do sportsball and his politics makes me stare into the horizon and sip beer), but gosh his turkey and pumpkin soup was great
I even think it's strange when Americans are into that sort of thing. It's downright spooky when others do it.
I'm happy to make turkey and pumpkin soup, and if you're over I promise I'll at least talk about actual weird shit - the tragedy of the Batavia, Crowley, that sort of thing.
a man after my own heart, I see!
Hell yeah. Been a while since I made cream of pumpkin soup though, I usually do a curry with pumpkin.
Just give me an Earl Grey, and I'll talk your ear off about the Earl Grey's reforms of the 1830s