I'd marry her this minute if she only would agree

[sovay]

I had a small but very successful Thanksgiving with my parents, with both of my husbands, and with nineweaving. I have been supplied with all the ingredients for a turkey terrific and a whole lot of apple crumble that doesn't need to be reconstructed into anything except me. My mother taped the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I leaned back into rushthatspeaks while we talked books and movies and theatrical stories. The photo was taken by spatch for selkie in condolence for the stressors of her holiday for which she was not the responsible party. The Sallust is from 1886, but I work with what I've got.

Comments

[selkie]

*sighs happily* I make excellent choices in heroes/NBMCs. What an amazing shot, too!

(We fled! We took our due leftovers and hit the highway! We are home in one piece.)

[sovay]

I make excellent choices in heroes/NBMCs. What an amazing shot, too!

*hugs*

spatch and his real camera!

(We fled! We took our due leftovers and hit the highway! We are home in one piece.)

(Hooray! I like all parts of this parenthesis.)

[spatch]

A good example of burning the midnight paraffin, yes.

[selkie]

Thank you very much! It’s excellent. May the punters be pleasant all weekend.

[sovay]

A good example of burning the midnight paraffin, yes.

I am very proud of faking up that lamp! Thank you for your portraiture.

[selkie]

If you’re gonna get all dressed up, you may as well light it right!

[sovay]

If you’re gonna get all dressed up, you may as well light it right!

I just added the cravat when I got home.

[gwynnega]

Happy Thanksgiving! (Enjoy the turkey terrific! I will be making a turkey sandwich of some sort tomorrow.)

[sovay]

Happy Thanksgiving! (Enjoy the turkey terrific! I will be making a turkey sandwich of some sort tomorrow.)

Thank you! Likewise! (I understand it is now Christmas season from a mercantile point of view, but it is turkey sandwich season for everyone else.)

[umadoshi]

That all sounds LOVELY. *^^* And what a great picture!

[sovay]

That all sounds LOVELY. *^^* And what a great picture!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[aurumcalendula]

That sounds like a lovely Thanksgiving!

[sovay]

That sounds like a lovely Thanksgiving!

It was! Extremely low-key and nice.

[moon_custafer]

Glad to hear a good time was had

[sovay]

Glad to hear a good time was had

Thank you! I was basically dead all week leading up to it and am now back to being dead again, but it was in fact a really nice time.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, good. ♥

And that is an excellent photo!

[sovay]

And that is an excellent photo!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

I am sure you will already have heard this, but (and v sorry if you have not): https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/nov/29/tom-stoppard-playwright-of-dazzling-wit-and-playful-erudition-dies-aged-88

Entirely unrelated, but more positive at least - I stumbled over the 1988 BBC Journey's End with Jeremy Northam, Edward Petherbridge & Timothy Spall on the IA, so I very much hope NOT region-locked this time, although if it is that makes three times I've tried to link you to it uselessly, at which point you should probably throw things at me!

https://archive.org/details/journeys-end-tv-1988

(It looks every bit as much blurry VHS recording as the YT one; enjoy!)

*hugs*

[sovay]

I am sure you will already have heard this, but (and v sorry if you have not)

I had not, although I had just been listening to one of his plays and thinking about others because of Michael Frayn. (I had also been thinking about Ibsen and Rattigan, but one has to worry less about them.) Thank you for letting me know.

I stumbled over the 1988 BBC Journey's End with Jeremy Northam, Edward Petherbridge & Timothy Spall on the IA, so I very much hope NOT region-locked this time, although if it is that makes three times I've tried to link you to it uselessly, at which point you should probably throw things at me!

It seems to play fine! Which is good, because that's what the Internet Archive is for!

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

<3<3<3

It seems to play fine! Which is good, because that's what the Internet Archive is for!

Yay! At last! \o/

[asakiyume]

Lovely photo! I hope it condoled well.

and a whole lot of apple crumble that doesn't need to be reconstructed into anything except me. hahaha, I like this.

[sovay]

Lovely photo! I hope it condoled well.

Thank you! Comments indicate yes!

hahaha, I like this.

*hugs*

[julian]

Aw, nice.

What is turkey terrific? I mean, a specific recipe or just, "Look! turkey! it's terrific!"?

[sovay]

Aw, nice.

Thank you!

What is turkey terrific? I mean, a specific recipe or just, "Look! turkey! it's terrific!"?

It's a sandwich! Originally a specialty of a local deli and one year my family just started making them ourselves. You toast the stuffing onto the bread, put the cranberry sauce on one side and the warmed turkey on the other, slap the whole thing together and should probably use toothpicks to preserve the structural integrity, but we never have. It's one of the rare foods that I actually eat seasonally. I've never had one that wasn't in the days immediately after Thanksgiving. [edit] It's what I had for dinner tonight. Turns out it works on raisin bread, too.

[julian]

Ohhh. That sounds really good. Have to try it next year. (For sandwiches, which are de rigeur, we do sourdough, turkey, gravy, and sometimes stuffing, plus lettuce.)

[nineweaving]

You're a Gerrit Dou.



Nine

[sovay]

You're a Gerrit Dou.

Thank you!

[tollers_and_jack]

it's a great photo - you look like virginia woolf. and I like the candle/kerosene lamp situation.

[sovay]

it's a great photo - you look like virginia woolf. and I like the candle/kerosene lamp situation.

Thank you so much!