Bad neighbours
I had a great conversation recently with a distraught homeowner complaining about their neighbour’s yard. They were desperately seeking some advice as to how to handle a next-door neighbour with an unkempt yard because they were certain that the home was hurting their property value. This is such a tricky subject. Your neighbour’s property impacts […]
Will There Be Sprinkles with That?
Let me say this, about that, I do believe people should take care of their health by living a healthy lifestyle. I know some of all y’all were convinced I was crossing over the dark side when I said it was time for me to enjoy my life with a glass of wine and a […]
The Death of Journalism
This may hurt some of my colleagues, but I have a story to tell. First, as we know, newspapers are suffering badly. Not because they didn’t do a great job, but because the art and skill of relating news to the people was overcome by the desire to make loads of money. Newspapers were bought […]
Bug, bugs and some rot
It’s that time of year when the gardeners all start sending in their vegetable questions. This year there seems to be a theme around three specific problems that home growers are having with their favourite tomatoes, lettuces, kale and flowering cucurbits. APHIDS AND ANTS A good aphid infestation often comes with a colony of ants […]
Flashback to the ’60s
You won’t want to mess with me on this, because I am a child of the ‘60s. I didn’t take drugs, and the whole concept of ‘free love’ never banged on my door, so I have a pretty clear memory of the chaos of the late era. In one of those waking hours, when my […]
It ain’t Bubbly Water
Summer in Canada is a difficult time to be a human. First of all, there’s the heat, the humidity, the crowded beaches, the congested roadways. Secondly, there’s the belief we should all have a bathing suit body. I have spent at least sixty years being concerned about the shape I’m in. Like a lot of […]
Patio for Pay
TV celebrity, food aficionado, trend-setter and personal friend of mine Pay Chen asked me to help out with the balcony on her new condo. Like most of these builds, this space was long and narrow, with only four feet of depth, making it tricky to put anything into the space. Pay wanted to extend her […]
The big pot o’money
I am going to expand my view, and you know what this means. I will need to go on hiatus again, and perhaps on vacation as well. You’re tired of me banging on Council, just because they are following a dream which is not my dream for the County. My job, as a journalisttrained writer, […]
The Trumpster Fire
“And what to my wondering eyes should appear” but the demise of democracy in the U.S.of A., my dear. Just when a person thinks things could not possibly get any worse south of our border someone ups and pours salt onto the gaping wound that is ‘Merica”. So, LOML and I just had a fun, […]
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Coffee
I don’t even know where to start this morning. I have a veritable cornucopia of choices. Rats taking over Toronto; the alleged rape of Andrea Robin Skinner; the closure of the Science Centre and the attempted assassination of former president, Donald Trump, CBS Sunday Morning being cancelled because of DJTurnip’s attempted assassination, channel-afterchannel inundated with […]