Now that I live in unUSistan, I find that England generally has sensible holidays - I'd much rather have my 4-day weekend in the spring than at the end of November and I'd much rather have a week off at Christmas than random days like "Presidents' Day" off in February ( Read more... )

I was talking to Deb the other day about my Fakesgiving dinner and mentioned I was having cooked celery and Deb was underwhelmed with that choice of veg. I mentioned that celery water makes the best gravy (it's true!) but on any given big dinner I'd take celery above pretty much any other green veg. Now, I must go eat my soup (with celery!) and ( Read more... )

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