While I’ve been revelling in postive health things (new eyes!) and negative ones (shingles!) I have been somewhat insulated from reacting to the increasing number of things that are going…
And the patch was removed this morning so I can see in the world in full binocular mode, with colours gorgeously clear and all the details vibrant. A little discomfort…
The kitchen is just about clean, after my new eagle (left) eye uncovered all the grime. Today is the day the right eye (formerly my better eye) gets done. Back…
The Charbonneau Commission into corruption and illegal political party funding has started work again after the Quebec provincial election. Just what it will come up with when it’s finished its…
The news this weekend was that Alistair MacLeod, short story writer and novelist, is dead at 77. As it happened, his only novel No Great Mischief was the focus of…
Too busy to say much because I realize just how dirty everything is around here, now that my eyes are working as they should. People had warned me that I…
The knives were out last week at the CBC and Radio Canada: 657 jobs will be cut and $130 million slashed from the budget. This is just the latest in…
Came across this in The New York Times today: a town in Norway which now has mirrors beaming sun down into the town square. It’s not a first: the BBC…
Out walking this morning and sighted the first robin so far this spring. The grass is mostly free of snow, but now yet green here, nor are there any leaves…
Missed this because our National Geographic subscription has been transferred to the grandkids, which is probably quite fitting: given the rate of racial and ethnic intermarriage in the US, by…
Let me say right off, that 18 months ago I was ready to give the Parti Québécois some slack as it won minority government status in a provincial election. Bringing…
The snow is retreating in front, and a sprinkle of little leaves are pushing up from the dirt. Spring is late this year, but very soon I expect the new…
This is the first provincial or federal election in years that I haven’t worked hard for some leftish candidate. Usually I do a lot of telephoning, or some door to…
Not much action lately because of various things, like cataract surgery on Monday. But now I’m delighted to report that I’m seeing better than I ever have. Anyone who’s been…
A combination of sick grandkids who share their microbes with their grandparents and my own interesting health sitautioin (cataract surgery on Monday) means that there haven’t been much in the…
One of the joys of children is how they introduce you to new things. On this day when a winter hurricane is pounding Eastern Canada, they’re digging out after a…
Most years the first red-winged blackbirds show up by the end of March around here. Usually there is open water at the edge of swamps, ponds, streams. Many times we’ve…
More snow yesterday, and everyone is getting tired of it! Today the temps are very cold too–minus 15 C when we got up, and now about minus 10. At least…
Very soon the Electronic Rights Defence Committee may finally distribute the settlement it received from Postmedia: I spent part of the weekend writing resolutions that will be needed to set…
