Boo!…ts, Boots

I carved this fellow all by myself, grumbling quite a bit as I did so. Unlike Une Femme who not onlyrevels in the Hallowe’en festivities herself, but also links to a host of other revellers,…

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another busy weekend in the rain

1. Had a really pleasant dinner on Friday night at Taki’s Taverna on Davie with a colleague who was in town to take in a Writers Festival event. We had to rush a bit, sitting…

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Sunday evening thoughts

just a couple of random notes before Monday comes ’round again: 1. Christie Blatchford’s rather odd piece about blogs in yesterday’s Globe and Mail. She thinks most blogs are poorly or indifferently written and further…

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Guess Who’s Going to Boston?

My little sister, that’s who!! Congratulations to Hilary, who finished the Royal Victoria Marathon yesterday in miserable rainy conditions managing a time of 3:48.18. Yay, Hilary — I bet you’ll be enjoying some massive doses…

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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

This should be a post about family dinner: turkey, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, brussels sprouts — well, maybe not in that order. That’s what was supposed to be happening at our place, although we were…

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