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Sounds like a wonderful weekend in the making. Hopefully your friend being with you will help with the airport, I don't so much hate airports as I hate airplanes! But the truth is that PenguinMums can fly high and happily, so I wish you both "Bon Voyage!"







 

Umm ... v 10?
 
Great choice young lady. We don't seem to have harvest festival anymore even in rural communities like this one but no doubt some people's mileage may vary. Hope you enjoy Thanksgiving.

Thank you, young sir.
Have you read any of Miss Read's Thrush Green or Fairacre novels? Lovely descriptions of traditional harvest festival preparations in most of them, featuring the contributions of the children at the village schools.
 
Umm ... v 10?
OOOPS Psalm 111 Haven't read those novels - Pre Uni English, A Level, (your Senior and Freshman years?) put me off most fiction (except Thomas Hardy - who could have guessed I would enjoy Hardy ) but I do remember Harvest festival at a Fenland Church including the village/town bakers making a special loaf in the shape of a large wheatsheaf and a Harvest supper.
 
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Junior and Senior high school years, I think, or maybe, as you say, high school senior year and college freshman. University freshman English tried to put me off literature altogether* because of a horrid instructor and choice of "classic" fiction (except for introducing me to Lewis's space trilogy by starting with the third one). I discovered Miss Read at my first library job.

*Not even a series of krap instructors and profs could do that!

Off now to check out Psalm 111.

ETA: I see I got around the **** there!
 

A couple of other people out here on the patio just looked over to see why I was laughing out loud.
I can't imagine what they'd think if I said "Rufous Owl"!
 
We don't seem to have harvest festival anymore even in rural communities like this one but no doubt some people's mileage may vary. Hope you enjoy Thanksgiving.
One of the quires (spelt thus as it also feature musical instruments) performed at four harvest festival suppers, usually on the Saturday night and one harvest festival service this year. At each of these the church was decorated with fresh and packaged produce, including bails of hay and sheaves of wheat much as I remember from my Methodist upbringing in my younger days, the tradition seems still very much alive in the rural areas of the midlands.
 
Lol brilliant! A minute would be a very long lived toy in Dennis’ tender care!
We scoured pet shops trying to find non squeaking pet toys for our Labrador, we could not find one, he loves his toys but luckily never destroys them. However he's got two squeaky soft toys, one he pinched off the retail area at our VETS, they were hung up by where Pets are weighted, so we had to buy it, the other he pinched from the Kennels he stays in on occasions. For our sanity we have trained him not to squeak either, all we have to do now is train our granddaughters not to squeak them when they visit and that's a lot harder.
 
except Thomas Hardy - who could have guessed I would enjoy Hardy )
I enjoy Thomas Hardy's poetry and the imagery in his novels. For years I have performed in Mummers Plays which Hardy depicts in The Return of the Native. We take them around village pubs and of course in good tradition we are disguised but I can tell you, I play the part of Slasher the Turkish Knight.
 
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