Condensed reading
Summertime reading! Isn’t it a wonderful treat to take an hour or two out of the day and read a novel or two or 10 over the summer months! My Mom was a reader and the nut didn’t fall too far from the tree. Mom encouraged us kids to take advantage of the public library […]
Flinging the hydration thingy
Have you noticed how the most mundane products seem to have ‘user guides’ these days? And how useless they can sometimes be? I bought a couple of relatively simple products this week. Case number one was a pair of sunglasses. I was fed up with my $20 pharmacy glasses breaking for some reason the moment […]
World ball
Ever since I began following the game in the early 1950s, it has gradually morphed into a wonderful international pastime. This does not mean that I fully endorse the “World Baseball Classic,” nor the inclusion of baseball at the Olympics. I attended a few of the World Classic games, and they offered about as much […]
Vines down under
As early as 1606, Dutch explorers made landfall on the western coast of Australia. The noted Dutch explorer Abel Tasman visited what is now named Tasmania in 1642. He laid claim to this island in the name of Holland, calling it Van Diemen’s Land, to honour his patron the Governor of the Dutch East Indies. […]
Ready to go!
They are about ready to kick off the regular football season south of the border. That’s where they need four downs to move the yardsticks. As you have read here, for several weeks, we have been playing the Canadian game in the fine summer weather. The Canadian Football League teams will have played almost half […]
The birth of Pinotage
During the 1860s, wine exports to England peaked as the French and English governments sorted their differences and the preferential tariffs accorded to South African wines were no longer an issue. By the mid 1860s, the Phylloxeria blight arrived on the shores of South Africa, collapsing the industry for the better part of two decades. […]
Murray’s ditch
A Sunday morning and I walk the south bank of the Murray Canal. Moss of verdant green covers the slope to the water; from a bordering forest a mourning dove answers the call of a distant freight train. The abandoned rail swing bridge drifts in a mist that carries through the passage while the rustle […]
Alternative energy
Just for the record, I’m not “on board” for any kind of industrial-sized wind turbines. Not now. Not ever. Not anywhere and most especially, not here in the County. I am, as regards IWTs, a full-on NIMBY and have as many questions about the “green and clean” of IWTs. And, also for the record, I […]
All’s well
Hospice Prince Edward has had a bit of press recently, especially about the potential to create a residential hospice here in the County to provide end-of-life care in a setting away from the patient’s home, specializing in “palliative care, advanced pain management and bereavement support”. Quality living. So, what I do know about living is […]
Royal Copeland
Last week, the Toronto Argonauts mourned the loss of one of their former great players, Royal Copeland. Copeland played in 111 regular season games in the Canadian Football League, as well as 14 playoff games. He won four Grey Cups with the Argos, including three consecutive Cups from 1945 to 1947. Vern “Jumbo” Goyer, a […]