I shall mostly be having a curry.
I feel it's what the Wampanoag would have wanted
well....yes.I was trying to be more of an internationalist ABR
If your eyes see deeper than the colour of skin
Then you must also see we are the same within
An' the rights you expect are the rights of all
Now it's up to you to lead the call
That liberty must come at the top of the list
Stand proud as - an internationalist!
I don't really understand Thanksgiving, to be honest. I was interrogating an American colleague about it today and it seems they just eat a big meal. There aren't any presents, no Great Escape on telly, just a big dinner and some American football. They don't even seem to get horribly drunk and pass out in front of the telly from what he told me.
It sounds really rubbish.
If I'm honest, it's the lack of all-day drinking that bothered me. Now Christmas is a proper holiday. You start with fizz at breakfast, more fizz opening the presents. Then it's time to head to the pub for a faceful of ale. Then back for pre-dinner drinks. Then fine wines with dinner, possibly port and/or brandy after dinner, then telly with more wine and perhaps a dram or some more brandy before bed. You basically don't stop drinking for 12-14 hours. Marvellous.
No, I started making a big thing out of it years ago, as a dry run for Christmas lunch. The old man and I and the rest of our squad at the controls* in the kitchen all day; the dollies indoors talking about fashion and whatnot, I suppose; putting their feet up.
*Dead on the cooking claret.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."