Happy Thanksgiving!

First, to everyone at home, Happy Thanksgiving!

A pretty low-key holiday here... it's just not thought about. Not in their consciousness, really. My friends knew, of course, that it was Thanksgiving, but initially I had to explain it, there's just no parallel. At first I got asked questions like "so, ehm, is that actually a big deal in America?"

Tonight Sarah and I had turkey sconewiches, because: A. the dining hall didn't have turkey, B. we couldn't be bothered to pay money in a restaurant, C. pubs had weird things like roast duck, but no turkey sandwiches. What!
So to the grocery it was, for... organic turkey, since the normal stuff was dodgy-looking. "Mature yet Mellow" cheddar cheese, because it was pretty much that or shredded mozzarella. Scones, for a British twist on the traditional turkey sandwich. Hence a sconewich. They were pretty sweet, actually maybe too much so? But tasty!
(Pictures over in the links, to your right!)

Other than that, everything's been pretty normal. I've been told that up until now I've been lucky with this Scottish weather. Well, no longer. It's raining pretty much every day from now until forever, with temperatures hovering around, 40F? Or so. It's a little miserable. To be honest.
-I spent another day on the Shop till.
-Monday night I made Thanksgiving apple crisp! And I was so proud of it I ate the majority, the rest was consumed by my kind kitchen-lending pal Zach.
-I successfully donated blood here! Weird to do it on Thanksgiving but that's how it worked out. Some parts were kind of weird, like how they didn't take my temperature, heart rate, or blood pressure, but it went easy enough. They say they take a pint but really it's 465 mLs, slightly under. They also offer a local anesthetic, which I declined because I'm tough, don't have nicely coloured bandages, and won't give hot drinks to first-time donors. I went out the door after being watched like a hawk by the nurses, laden with the extra chocolate biscuits they forced into my hands.

A pretty good Thanksgiving if you ask me.
Lots of love to all.