Thanksgiving

This year thanksgiving was quite exciting.  A work colleague whose mother happens to be American invited us to diner after work.  It also turns out that the mother worked on a seminal edition of Shakespeare’s plays in the 1980s.  So it was fascinating on many counts.  The most interesting feature of the diner was that the boiler in their house hadn’t been working for several days so there was no heat and no hot water in the house.  It so happens that the boiler at our flat also let go that morning and we also had no heat or hot water.  And our third colleague in the computer room also had his boiler not working, making it a clean sweep.  And we found out that my inlaws in back in the states lost their water on Thanksgiving Day also.  So there was a theme.  But the best thing about Thanksgiving this year is that we had somewhere to go to, so that was a nice change from last year.  I think it shows how we have adapted to life in London that we found someone with whom to share the American holiday.