Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate it

I think someone once asked me whether the British celebrate Thanksgiving in the same way that Americans do.

My immediate, and hastily censored, reply would be something along the lines of, "That would be rather like King George III celebrating Independence Day," but upon more mature consideration, I recall that the Anglican church does celebrate the Harvest Festival.

I dimly remember altars resembling tasteful farmers' market stalls, and congregations singing, "Come ye thankful people, come. Raise the song of Harvest Home..."

I might have remembered the wrong verbs for the second line of that hymn. I don't remember eating turkey (too close to the Christmas turkey, anyway) or pumpkin pie, or watching anything particular on TV.

As for me, today, I've got the smallest butterball turkey breast I've ever seen, and will be cooking an approximately traditional feast this evening (since my husband has a business meeting mid-afternoon). So far, I haven't seen a pumpkin pie flavored yoghurt, but there are apple pie, key lime pie, and cherry cheesecake flavored yoghurts.

While my husband is out, we'll record the football game... I'm rooting for Joey Harrington because he was fired from the team he's playing against... and I shall watch a swordfight-featuring video or two, because I am researching swordmasters.

It will either be the James Mason --love his voice-- Prisoner of Zenda or the Anthony Hopkins --likewise-- Mask of Zorro!

Have a lovely day, whatever you are doing!

Rowena

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Rowena Cherry

Newnham College graduate's potted bio since leaving

When I --reluctantly-- left Newnham College, Cambridge,
with my "good" Combined Honours degree, I had a full time
teaching job waiting for me at Knighton House,
a preparatory boarding school for girls within the Bryanston Group.

It was very full time!

After four years, I felt ready for the challenge of teaching older children, or even adults.
I moved to London, added qualifications for teaching English as a foreign language,
tutored Chaucer for a while, then took a post at a private school in Mill Hill.

In 1983 I married an American auto designer, who whisked me off to Germany for
the next eight years. I thoroughly enjoyed living in Germany, learned the language, and
added a German O Level to my porfolio.

In 1991 we moved to Detroit, and within a couple of years my husband was chosen
to be GM's fifth Vice President of Design. Since I was not required to be his translator,
home secretary, and occasional speech editor any more, I began to write fiction for my own
entertainment.

In 2003 I entered a national ... it might even have been global... contest sponsored by
Romantic Times BOOKclub and Dorchester Publishing to find
"the new voice in paranormal romance."

I was one of three finalists, and my success led to publication of my chess-titled
romance FORCED MATE, which I set partly in Cambridge, and I made my heroine a student at
Homerton College (which I knew rather better than Newham College).

Since then, I have added a short prequel, MATING NET, and am completing the third book
INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL for release in February 2007.

I teach chess to gifted seven year olds one morning a week during term time.

Best wishes,

Rowena Cherry
rowena@rowenacherry.com
http://www.rowenacherry.com/
Where heroines get more hero than they bargain for

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