Groundhog Day
It was like Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day at the County Council meeting last Tuesday. Brace yourself for yet another debate about the size and shape of Council. Council received a report and heard a presentation from a consultant, Strategy Corp manager Aidan Grove-White, on the seven priorities it had set for itself in 2020. The […]
Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda
So, here’s the deal. I don’t know how long we’ll be isolated/ locked-down/restricted with the COVID-19 pandemic, and all of its variants. What I do know is when the pandemic is done most of us will wonder why we didn’t take advantage of our “down” time to learn some new tricks. I know you know […]
Protecting the Greek Alphabet
Constantine Karamelis has had enough. Acting interim secretary-treasurer of the Society for the Preservation of the Integrity of the Greek Alphabet (SPIGA), he is “just fed up to here” with the wanton misuse of his beloved alphabet. And he launched into quite a tirade when he spoke with us recently. In particular, he is upset […]
Snuggly Blankets and January Fun
Ah January! I remember being a kid on Sunset Trail waking up to an ice-covered world. Overnight the fluffy snow in our yard, and the park next to our house, became a great big skating rink. It never occurred to me an ice storm would be a nightmare for the adults in my life; mostly […]
The great Trenton butter theft
The Quinte area is becoming a breeding ground for high stakes theft. The booty? Not diamonds. Not art. Not gold bullion. Instead, we’re talking about butter. And a large quantity of it. Some 20,000 kilos of the stuff—worth about $200,000—have gone missing. Quinte West OPP report that on the evening of Christmas Day, two trucks […]
Just the way I am
Over the years, I have known oodles of people who start their New Year a bit hungover and a with a very long list of resolutions. Most definitely, I was one of those people, back in the day. It was genetic. I came from a long line of hungover people who were resolution list makers. […]
Bad Pandemic Poetry
At this point in the pandemic, as we hunker down for more isolation at home, the mind gets desperate for entertainment: there are only so many reruns of Seinfeld that you can sit through. So my solution is to make up poetry about the pandemic. But not just any poetry; no, this calls for bad […]
Ringing out the old year
I find it hard to believe this will be my last column for 2021! In spite of all the drudgery of Pandemic Life, 2021 has flown by. My mom used to say time will fly when I got older. Well, I’m a whole lot older and she was right, time flies. Now it’s time to […]
A Thrilling Week
I knew last week was going to be a tough one when I was shorted on my box of Timbiebs at Tim Hortons in Bancroft. I discovered only when I was half an hour out of town that my box of 10 only contained eight of the tasty treats. So I made up for it […]
Write it Right
Well, wasn’t that a night! As I write this on Sunday morning, many County folks are still sitting in the dark. Just when I was thinking things couldn’t possibly be any worse, or more exciting, we were hit with an epic wind storm. Every once in a while, during the last two years, I’ve wondered […]