Flying on Thanksgiving and Owls You Can Make For Thanksgiving

When are the flights empty? Apparently if you want a choice of seats, pick Christmas Day, and in American Thanksgiving Day.

If you are in the USA (fourth Thursday in November) you will be surrounded by people celebrating Thanksgiving, and eating turkey.

Some people like to give guests a take home present. I love these owl biscuits you can make at home wherever you are on Thanksgiving and give to your hosts or guests. Also a great gift to take to a pot luck party, A book group, Writers' Circle, or a Toastmasters meeting.

Two great ideas you can copy, even if you don't have time or reason to make owl biscuits this week:
1 Use a glass tumbler as what the Americans call a cookie cutter.
2 Use balls of dough for decoration, add chocolate buttons for buttons or eyes, use almonds for beaks or claws of birds or animals.

https://blog.etsy.com/en/butter-cookie-owls/

The story of Thanksgiving, according to this account, was not just a dinner thanking God for a safe arrival, but both the God or fate and the natives (then called Red Indians) who had taught the Pilgrim Fathers (and mothers) how to draw and cook local foods. The dinner included turkey, shared with the natives, cranberry, so named because of the stalks bending like cranes.

http://www.crewsnest.vispa.com/thanksgivingusa.htm

If you are not American, you might wish to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Canadians, who celebrate on the second Monday in November.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Two wheel cabin cases with owls, only £14.99

A wise own said a two wheel suitcase is available on line with free postage. Never mind the size, feel the weight.

If you don't mind having two wheels (rather than the latest four wheels) you can get a cheaper suitcase. Karabars sell a two wheel pull along case in lots of patterns. My favourite is the owls.

The price is only £14.99 with free delivery. That saves about five pounds, a quarter of the price of the £20 model. But £20 is still a good price, if you must have four wheels.

If you look at the pictures on eBay and blow them up larger, you'll see that the handles on the top and side are flat, not padded. I think they are assuming that most of the time you will be pulling the suitcase, only carrying it when walking up stairs.

If you want a padded handle, either inspect pictures carefully, or look at suitcases in local shops to decide the style and size you want, before buying from a shop or ordering on line.

Note the 20 inch cases are really weeny, for those airlines which limit you to a tiny carry on case. You might consider a bigger case for daily use, or a set of three.

If I wanted to protect a laptop computer for work, I would pick something more padded and heavyweight, less likely to be damaged by pointed objects, or slashed by a thief. You can lock together the zip tabs on many of the 'good value' cases. They are more secure than shopping trolleys.
karabars.co.uk

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.