It was all possible due to our dear guests, Sharon and Jaime. They brought genuine, A-grade canned pumpkin. This substance, although not well-understood by chemists, is a necessary ingredient in the American version of holiday cheer. In addition, it appears to be more valuable (and more rare) than uranium yellowcake, outside North America. (I suspect that it is banned by the health authorities, due to undocumented process deviations and nonconforming primary substances — that is, they simply don’t believe it comes from pumpkins.)<\/p>\n
Throughout October and November, Anita, Will and Kathryn searched the province of Leinster for canned pumpkin, to no avail. Last week, we escalated the holiday spirit by obtaining a Christmas tree! We brought a small supply of ornaments from Gurnee, and they covered the tree perfectly. It’s in our front window, so we like to think that it cheers up the workers who trudge past our window to face a long commute from our neighbourhood to their overly mortgaged homes in the suburbs. <\/p>\n We Bakkers have pride in our willingness to immerse ourselves in new cultures. That said, we are not about to ignore the great American holiday that celebrates our great nation’s 400-year-long, mostly-well-intentioned imperialism. What’s more, we had fellow Americans in town on Thanksgiving Day! Will made chicken, because the turkey steaks in the grocery store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>But Sharon and Jaime smuggled in the mat\u00e9riel just in time, and we had pie for Thanksgiving<\/a>. As for any evidence that we now possess a large enough stockpile to begin weapons research — it’s a forgery.<\/p>\n
<\/span>In the St Stephen’s Green mall, the closest to our house, children line up with their families to take photos with Santa Claus. In this mall, Santa stays in the fo’c’sle of a pirate ship, which is not bedecked in any holiday paraphanalia (see crappy mobile photo). There is no obvious reason for the pirate theme<\/a>. That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"