Happy Thanksgiving

Caught the bus, made it to Laisterdyke by 10:30am only to find that the website is out of date and that services at the Laisterdyke Methodist Church are combined with the Baptist church and are held at 11am!  Got to chat with the very friendly 60+ year old seniors.  There were 15 people at the service that morning.  Congregants passing away or moving away and the lack of young people coming in are the reason for its sudden recent downsizing so that they now meet in the small room to the side instead of the main hall.  Still a lively bunch with good lay speakers though.  They all wanted to know if I'd be back. :P

Laisterdyke Methodist (and Baptist) Church, built in 1928

Sort of Thanksgiving Dinner (I shared some with my housemate who didn't want much dinner seeing as she'd eaten a lot at lunch when a bunch of others went out on a day trip)...

I found figs *super pleased with self*, and the blue cheese (on the pears) was given us from last week's wine and cheese Uganda/India info session.  Fig salad with rocket (arugula), baby spinach, and watercress, roasted potatoes with rosemary, roasted squash, squash seeds, chicken, and roasted pears with blue cheese.


And...just took a walk through the City Centre for the "Garden of Lights" event.

City Hall is freakeh in red.  It kept changing colours.  Reminded me of the CN Tower.  Simply awful.  Otherwise the other lights were quite nice.  Quite a gathering of people there, for no reason but to enjoy the novelty of a slightly different scene, I guess.  I got poked in the arm by a kid's blow-up sword as I crossed the street without paying attention.