Thanksgiving

Today is the last Thursday of November, the day set aside in North America as Thanksgiving Day. It is a national holiday and people tend to spend the time with their family and loved ones around a shared meal.



The tradition has it's roots in the religious beliefs of the early Pilgrim settlers who gave thanks after surviving a rather bleak first winter and benefitted from the bounty of a bumper first harvest in their new land and home. The gift of a new life in a new land certainly was considered worth celebrating as they endured tremendous hardship including the loss of loved ones.



And so I wish everyone who may be reading this on Thursday 27th November,"Happy Thanksgiving"!!