Happy Thanksgiving to our American followers!
Happy Thanksgiving to our American followers!
Photograph by Richard Nowitz, National Geographic via Jack-O-Lanterns Picture – Halloween Wallpaper - National Geographic Photo of the Day
Grinning jack-o’-lanterns spill across a tree and a porch as a festive welcome to Halloween. The custom of pumpkin carving originated in the British Isles, but people used large turnips or other vegetables instead of pumpkins. (From the National Geographic book Visions of Earth)
Oh my goodness, a real Halloween Tree!
Pumpkin (apple, ginger and carrot) soup bubbling in the pot, braised red cabbage in the oven, pear cheese and watercress salad in the fridge, gingerbread skeletons on the cooling rack, and a Jack-o-lantern called Egon: we’re ready for Halloween.
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Great Britain celebrates Scottish national poet Robert Burns’ birthday with poetry recitals, bagpipers, haggis and whisky-fuelled toasts.