There we were having a quiet Saturday night dinner, when all of a sudden there were “fireworks” – you know the ceremonial kind. The ones that you do on Canada day – 24th of May and July 4th. Well, OK we knew it was Guy Fawkes – Nov 5; but did the rest of the […]
I think that either term applies – Hollowe’en because we hollow out the pumpkins for the “weens” – the wee wains and that’s pretty exciting. It’s a lot of fun to see the children get dressed up and for many adults – it’s fun to be children again and get dressed up. I don’t actually go
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I just had to post today to acknowledge the passing of Steve Jobs. The blog heading is not mine; it is the heading used by the Globe this morning. This was the Globe’s front page – it surpassed the Ontario election in importance (no kidding!!!). I don’t think that I will ever cancel my subscription,
Sent to me from a knitter. So I am sending it onto you. Two Choices What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice? At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with
Dryad from Woolly Wormhead OK, I think that it’s time to move to a higher plane. I know that getting out of parking spots, fixing wiper blades for rear windows, buying Cranberry scones etc… is the stuff of life; but, every once in a while we need to be catapulted out of the mundane, however,
from Infiknit …..dance on the head of a pin or dress a shop window. This article in the Toronto Star fascinated me – it’s about the “Abandoned Barbie Project” an undertaking by Dr. Sheldon Wagner, a 67 year-old psychotherapist who owns a store – gallery – at 100 Ossington Ave in TO. The gallery is
O.K. January is Oatmeal Month and if you say to me that you hate Oatmeal, let me say to you, that you’ve never had Atholl Brose (pronounced A thole brosey). Here are the components. Sarum Tunic from Cabin Fever Brose is a Scots word for an uncooked form of porridge. Oatmeal is mixed with boiling
OK, this is not a commercial for deodorant. If it were, I would be saying – “keep your lums from reeking.” Now, it does have something to do with pits – coal pits, that is. Actually, this is a New Year’s greeting or more specifically a hogmanay greeting – it means “long may your chimneys
Night on the Town by Ilga Leja ….yes, you are right, I failed to note that December was National Bingo Month. Here is the link to prove it and also a listing of all the other celebrations that I failed to write about (about which I failed to write) in Decemeber. Well, there was just
