My daughter called from university today to ask for an Advent calendar. These are the rather large, but quite thin boxes that hide chocolates under numbers, which count the days before Christmas. It’s also a very clever way to sell chocolates and to count the days before the day when lots of people get to open the […]
Remembrance Day is the one day of the year that I read “In Flanders Fields.” It is all about being connected, about paying back in some small, more like infinitesimal way, the great debt that we owe to those who did not make it back from the many battles that had to be fought, so
It’s a grey somewhat rainy day, today. There was nothing very magical in the paper, this morning and nothing really exciting on the internet either. It’s one of those days that you have to work at keeping “up”. OK, time to start with the check list: 1. Not sick – this is good; because, if you have been sick and get
I had to write to-day because, my favourite day of the year – December 21 is at hand. It is the day set aside to mark the winter solstice- the day that the sun stops going south and turns around to head north again. I know the Earth really tilts on its axis, but at
Well it’s the end of a week that began June 9 and it is now June 16 – where has the time gone!!!! 1- I know that I spent two days of it travelling to and from Indianapolis and either putting up or taking down our show booth at TNNA. 2- Another hour or two
