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     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
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Hi Glen!
-> 
->  HN> Happy Thanksgiving Glen!
-> 
-> Thanks.
-> 
->  HN> Our thanksgiving day at least! Do you 
->  HN> Ozzie's have a specific date for celebrating 
->  HN> all the good things you have to be thankful for?
-> 
-> Every day, my friend, every day!  (G)
-> 

Me too! 

-> Thinking about it, I remember there is a religious "Harvest Festival"
-> of some type, which is probably a hangover from the pre-Christian Roman
-> era.  That involves bringing freshly grown produce into the church or
-> temple and heaping it on the altar as offerings to the God(s).
->

While the earlier Thanksgiving celebrations
 were certainly religious in origin, the 
current holiday is much less so for most 
and any excuse for a celebration is a good one! 

-> As the climate here is more "Californian", there is not the same sharp
-> changes of seasons as you have.  Rain comes in the Winter, but not
-> snow, so crops are sown in Winter and begin growing then, more rapidly
-> in Spring, ripening during the hot, dry Summer.  Only the introduced
-> European trees shed their leaves in Autumn; the local eucalypts,
-> acacias and pines are evergreens, so we don't get the "joy of Spring"
-> effect that you enjoy, when all your trees burst into leaf and flowers
-> appear from the ground.  Many fresh, locally grown vegetables and fruit
-> are available the year round.
-> 
Hmm, then you'd be eligible for 4 
thanksgivings a year mate! You're 
missing out on some good tucker !

-> Relevant to this Echo, I have just been listening on the radio to the
-> VVO, the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, a contemporary music group which
-> uses the rhythmic sounds of food preparation to make music.  The
-> occasional sounds of a chook clucking were included.  The announcer
-> mentioned that usually they use the chopped-up vegetables to make soup
-> which is served to the audience at the end of the performance.
-> 
Have never heard of them, but it sure 
sounds like an interesting idea!

-> Something to consider for the next Echo picnic...  :)
->  
->  -> Thanks, though it is now well into Summer, with temperatures rising
to
->  -> 38C (100F) yesterday.
->  -> 
->  HN> Woof, that's hot mate! Makes me thankful 
->  HN> that I'm here in the "Great Northwet"!  
-> 
-> People get used to it, and still play cricket.
-> 
I'll volunteer to watch and enjoy cool drinks as I do!
 
->  ->  HN> considered! I'll try to remember to keep
->  ->  HN> a bit shorter sentence width! Thanks
->  ->  HN> for the good idea Glen!
->  -> 
->  -> That seems to be working.  [Hey, Burt, how does that look to you?] 
You
->  -> probably don't need to shorten your lines so much, though.  It
depends
->  -> on how many times you expect to include quotes of quotes of quotes. 
:)
->  -> 
-> 
->  HN> Well, if you look above you'll see 
->  HN> that it's been quoted enough that 
->  HN> even Burt's lines about his "old eyes" 
->  HN> got wrapped around the bend (grin). If 
->  HN> the shorter line width helps, I'm all for it!
->  HN> From now on I'll make corrections to 
->  HN> help keep the messages easy to read! 
-> 
-> If the quotes are not repeated too many times it works.  Thanks.
-> 
-> 
Doesn't take too many replies to 
have the problem pop up, so I'll 
keep mine short enough to avoid it! 

chat with you soon
ha
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