Trivia question: What is the only place in Australia that celebrates Thanksgiving?
Norfolk Island. It has its own official Thanksgiving Day in November, though it falls on a Wednesday rather than the Thursday observed in the United States. I’m not sure why the Americans get a Thursday and Norfolk Islanders a Wednesday, but perhaps they have more important things to do on Thursdays.
We are often encouraged to be grateful: to “count our blessings” or develop “an attitude of gratitude”. Good advice. But it raises a question: thankful to whom?

I have just finished Les Misérables—not read it, but listened to it. All 68 hours of it! You may not have read the novel, but I’m sure many of you have seen the musical on stage or at the movies.