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Savoury rice with chicken.

Thank you. We don't have Thanksgiving as a festival over here, Most churches would have a harvest thanksgiving. My previous church had their's in September.

I know I should know, but when is Thanksgiving?

My wife and I had lunch at Table Table today. (2 mid week meals for £8.99) I had hand battererd fish (I paid a bit extra for Haddock, my favourite) with chips and mushy peas. My wife had Roasted vegetables with pasta. We freally enjoyed it.

Steak with potatoes sautéed with Garlic and parsley, with Roast parsnips and butternut squash and ratatouille. Yum

Duck leg in pepper sauce with new potatoes and salad, in our hotel restaurant. Fromage blanc with red fruit coulis as desert.

We don't like pizzas with mozzarella,as we find it tasteless, my wife prefers goats cheese

I don't know of any Independent Baptist church here that has an altar. Or for that matter of any Independant Evangelical church that does, The Anglican Church did away with altars at the reformation,and replaced it with a simple table for communion, but they began to be reintroduced by Archbishop Laud, at the time of King Charles 1st. Altars are for offering sacrifices, which is why the RCs have to have altars for their "unbloody sacrifice." A baptsit minister who used to preach at my church, has a son who is a minister of an Anglican church. He acts independantly and only baptises believers by immersion. He will not "baptise" babies but cannot baptise any who were "Christened" as babies, as that would end his ministry. Instead he arranged to have them baptised at the local baptist church. The Bishop asked him to take over another church and offered help, but he said he would take over the church but would use his own men. While I see that being and Anglican Church may bring under the gospel those who would not go to a non Anglican church, I cannot see how he can opperate under the Authority of a Bishop who wears the mitre of Dagon and carries the crook of Osiiris.

Alttars in churches are an invention of the Catholics. THey are usually on the east as when you bow to them you are honouring the sun god, Baal. They also have relics in them so you are also honouring the relic,

We are in France for a few days, We wanted somewhere that would do a vegetarian meal for my wife. We tried the hotel restaurant without sucess, then the restaurant at the local hypermarket, but they said We could make yo a salad." My wife said "We can make our own thank you." So we got a couple of pizzas and took them back to our hotel. I had a "sauce piquant" (sp?) with mine, Later my wife complained that the lock on the bathroom door did not work properly, so I looked at it and it seemed that had been forced and not repaired properly. I had a mini tool set it the car and got that and managed to bend the lever back into shape, so it fitted well, but the spindle as stiff so I assumed it needed a bit of oil. but I cdidn't have any, but then remembered the litle sache of "Sauce Piquant" and lookd at the lable and in English it said "Chili Oil".I squeezed the remainer of the sachet on the spindle and it now works perfectly. Today we went to the Bible Baptist Church and the pastor and his wife invited us back to lunch. Had some cold left over pizza for supper. May have some salad later.

We gave the world cricket. But not all the world accepted it, But then those that did always beat us at it, I saw on France 24 web site yesterday, that some of the failed migrants to the UK have applied for asylum in France and some from Afganistan and other places have started the first French cricket club, called St Omer Cricket Club., so soon I expect the French will be beating us at cricket,

Potjevleesch today for lunch. We are in France till Tuesday and Potjevleesch is a speciality of French Flanders. It means Pot of flesh. This evening we had French bread and cheese,

My 9 year old granddaughter, Bethanny, does a lot of the cooking in their family,. She does breakfast, lunch and soetimes supper, Here is a photo from her post on WhatsApp today. "Made breakfast for the boys, Luke and George" Luke is her 14 year old brother and George is 13 from Hong Kong, who is at bording school and stays with them during the holidays. Geeorge has been cooking Chinese food for them in the evenings which seems to consist of chicken and noodles in various guises.

Today I did Chicken and Leeks in a creamy sauce, served with green beans and potatoes sautéed with garlic and parsley.

Most salmon we get here is farmed in Scotland. I usually do it in the oven, wrapped in foil, with Olive oil, lime juice and topped with lime slices and dill, or if i can't get dill, fennel leaves.