This little beauty
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” Romeo and Juliet, II, ii, 1-2 Nowadays “claret” is an E.U. protected name for red wines produced in the Bordeaux region. In the Middle Ages it was an anglicization of a French word that meant pale. “Clairet” […]
Who are you?
I’m going to go all “naive” on you today. A long time ago, when computers and interconnectivity and such were going to make my life a dream, I was asked if I’d sign a paper agreeing to let my family physician share my medical information with other medical specialists. Sounded like a great idea. I […]
The six feet under confession
There’s a joke that is often told to lawyers in order to irritate them. It goes like this. The client lends money to the lawyer, and then dies before the money is repaid. The lawyer, overcome by remorse at the unpaid debt, tucks a cheque into the suit pocket of the deceased client, knowing he […]
The Olympic Games-2012
They passed around the Olympic Torch at Wimbledon last weekend. It has circulated the British Isles, in anticipation of the opening of the Games. The opening ceremonies will be shown on our television screens this Friday night, beginning at 7:30pm, and will be watched by billions of people around the globe. Prior to the ancient […]
Go for the roots
We all need a respite from this relentless heat. 2012 has been the year of the perfect storm for local farmers and grape growers. First there was an unseasonably warm spring, then there was a frost shortly afterwards that destroyed much of the potential fruit crop in Ontario. Now they have to deal with a […]
A new golden age?
A couple of years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek column about how Wellington would soon be discovered by continentals raving about the charms of the hip cafe culture of “Vellingtunne.” Now I’m beginning to wonder if it isn’t coming to pass. My wife had gone away for a few days with the car and I […]
FYI David Frum
Editor’s note: Last week David Frum penned an article in the National Post offering his impressions of his summers in Wellington. I’ve only lived here for 40 years. I work here. I pay taxes here. My children went to school here. My friends are here. Just in case David Frum takes a moment to read […]
The bad movie equivalent
It’s been a long hot summer and it must be almost Labour Day. Wait a minute, it’s only the 18th of July. We’re not even a month in, with more than two to go. It’s that constant heat that’s getting to us— the stuff for which at other times of the year we get up […]
Argos entertain Blue Bombers
On Wednesday evening, the Toronto Argonauts host the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in a mid-week game at the Rogers Centre. The Argonauts are reeling after a disappointing loss to their arch-rivals, the Hamilton Tiger Cats, last weekend. The Blue Bombers are off to a horrid start, thumped last weekend by the Edmonton Eskimos. The Argonauts have […]
Twickle purple
Rosea…Grosso…Melissa…the morning slips over a wind row, drawing cool shadows and warm light onto a field of Mediterranean blue. Thriving in this ground is a variety of cultivars from faraway places—Croatia, U.K., the Netherlands. Long dense rows of spiked flowers are ready for harvest, a once-a-season chance to take in the ‘wow factor’—the feeling —of […]