Christmas shopping

So there’s me, Saturday morning, heading out for some Christmas shopping. Flat boots so I can put in the shopping miles comfortably, light coat which will break the wind and fend off the rain but…

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Art, Good Food, Some Shopping . . . must be a weekend

This photo is taken from the Vancouver Art Gallery website. I’ve had such a good weekend, despite having to begin each day by working through a big pile of marking for several hours. Some productive…

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colour-ful comments — the advent of purple

Two comments about what I’ve been wearing have made me chuckle lately. One was Karen’s on my last post about colour: she reminded me that, especially compared to her recent experiments, my combination of red…

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kristeva again, and Kate Atkinson’s When Will There Be Good News

So it turns out that when you spend a night helping a new baby be born and then spends several hour a day for the next few days helping that little one’s parents get some…

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Colour for foggy days

Yes, they do, and they interrupted our sleep all last night. There is still thick enough fog that we can’t see Gabriola Island which is only a few kilometres from us, nor can I locate…

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