Happy turkey day!

Its' thanksgiving today, if anyone care. An all american holiday - this is usually celebrated hard core in the States. The day where you give thanks for the bounty that was reaped from the autumn harvest (also known as the Harvest Festival)..and also signifies the arrival of christmas…the day after thanksgiving has been historically the busiest shopping day of the year in the States where everyone go crazy on their plastics in the commercialisation that is christmas. One little note: I think its fairly strange that I still celebrate and love all holidays american style - 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Halloween.I also celebrate deepavali and merdeka..if I can I would be celebrating all year long. Since Deepavali I had Indian food, Chinese New year I had scottish haggis (don't ask) today I shall have the traditional roast turkey complete with sprouts and spuds with the addition of a Yorkshire pudding. Not many people have tried this, but I actually make a dead mean turkey.Moist on the inside, crispy skin on the outside, I stole my recepie from Whole Foods - and never looked back ever since.MaybeI will pop one out after xmas and serve it to the outlaws

I had also used thanksgiving as the marker day for christmas…therefore this scrooge did a headcount of presents yesterday - and I am doing suprisingly very well. Most people on my list have two gifts 'assigned' to them…and most of them probably need another one. I've lost the mil and the granma il's presents….purchased them at Camden when I was last down at London and of course, left it to Bacon to safekeep = dissapeared! I am having problems buying for men though…I have the ignorant accountant, the bro in law, fil and step fil. Then there is the assorted people that Bacon call friends.I had been asking around work for ideas…aftershave is a good one and some other guy suggested remote controlled car/helicopter/rocket. I'll probably pop over M&S and grab some man toys…compass,keychain sudoku ect.Bacon keep telling me that he don't care if I don’t like Christmas, HE does. My reply was that it was because I was buying all the presents on his behalf - he has not bought one single miserly present…therefore = no stress. And it's his family and friends that I'm buyin for. If I was him (sit back, relax and let the presents roll in without spending a penny) I would love christmas too! But anyone with any ideas for xmas gifts - let me know!

(at the moment everyone is getting candles/incense/soaps, or all three. Bacon's family and friends are going to be one fragant lot)

Ding dong the scooge is dead, the scrooge is dead!