It’s Valentine’s Day. However, I did have a usual mid-week dinner planned – Lentil Soup – not very romantic or celebratory – is that even a word? In the back of my mind a little voice keeps saying, “Lobster, lobster.” But who has lobster on a Thursday Night? When the kids were little, we used
Amorphous is an interesting word. It means without a clearly defined shape or form. To me this is not a negative. I actually think that this is how the creative mind works. An idea starts out as an amorphous thought – something that is not clearly defined. Then it grows and starts to create its
This is day 42 in the 2013 blog-a-day challenge. I decided to post about the number 42 today because it is the meaning of life according to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fortunately it falls on a weekend this year. I always think that weekends are more about life or at least the fun
I was feeling a bit cabin fevered yesterday. By noon it had been snowing for 24hrs and we had more snow than we knew what to do with. I went to work in the morning but decided to leave at noon, before I got really snowed in. The city plows do this neat trick of
Before Christmas, my son had a friend staying over for a few days. Well one night Alex went out to get some snacks from across the street. The kids all use the door in the fence at the back of the yard to get to the shops, because it’s quicker. When he got back he
This is not about the comic strip, sorry. It’s about a device in medieval castles that I have totally misunderstood. I know, why should I worry about not understanding a bit of architecture that was in use 1,000 years ago, well, because I’m a masochist – enough said. Anyway for years I always though that
My youngest is a “button pusher” in more ways then one. Now-a-days, he usually just pushes my buttons with arguments, as to why I should pay him more money for just “being.” When he was little, though, he had a penchant for pushing physical buttons – usually the wrong buttons – whenever he saw one.
Yesterday Feb 4, 2013, the Canadian government phased out the penny. I know other countries have done it and survived. Britain obviously, at one time, phased out the farthing and the half penny (pronounced hape-knee) before it went to an entirely new monetary system, which axed the threepenny (pronounced threp-knee), sixpence, half crown, crown and
I was often called upon to explain how the date of Easter is determined each year. It was sort of my party piece – OK I don’t lead a very exciting life. Now, however, with Google being the source of all information, at anytime, I am rarely asked to “recite.” Alas, I did enjoy the
