I’m a vegetarian and before you ask, no I don’t exist solely on nut loaves and lettuce and no I don’t hang out at airports wearing bright orange robes, socks and sandals, banging my gong – well – I do sometimes but that’s beside the point. I eat everything I always used to [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Veggie Tales
Posted in farmed salmon, growth hormones, meat processing, vegetarianism on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Exercise Woes
Posted in exercise, health, physical fitness, weight loss on April 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This month I’m on an exercise kick. It’s about time that I shed all those unsightly pounds that have been piling up for the past ten years or more. Whatever happened to that sylph-like figure of yore? [yore kidding me right?]. I think the weight went on in inverse proportion to the [...]
Remembering Virginia Tech
Posted in society, students, virginia tech on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How shocked and saddened I was at the news of the Virginia Tech shootings – I think all of us – students and parents alike – are horrified that such an unspeakable thing could happen, again. The shootings at Columbine also happened in April and it is said that many of these types of [...]
Does Not Compute
Posted in computers on April 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago we went to see Casino Royale – you know – the new James Bond movie with Daniel Craig who is a bit too pretty if you ask me and seems to do an awful lot of pouting al la Angelina Jolie [those lips just *cannot* be real any more than any [...]
Travellers Tales
Posted in Uncategorized on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ever noticed that as soon as you leave home you feel you should go back? Even as you get off the plane on that much needed holiday to Hawaii, or Florida, or Timbuktu, you start to worry about home. Did you turn the stove off, leave food for the cats, lock the front [...]
In Flanders Fields…
Posted in flanders, saskatchewans, toronto scots, vimy on April 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. 4 Battalions of Canadians across a 7000 yard front stormed the ridge from rat-infested trenches knee-deep in mud and filth and scrambled their way into history [literally] over the bodies of the French and English who had gone before. The battle began at 7:05am [...]
Looking Back
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I get older like many people I have developed an interest in genealogy. I think as the years pass you feel less inclined to be entirely engaged in the moment and more inclined to hark back to earlier days when life was simpler somehow. Or maybe it wasn’t any more than furniture [...]
Cat Tales
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Cats are very funny creatures. Opinionated and [sometimes[ bad tempered, food faddists and dog baiters – they each have their own unique personalities and little quirks and foibles. Much like us you might say. I had a cat once that would refuse to speak to me for days if I made any [...]
Airing the Laundry
Posted in fights, portsmouth, sailors on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Can you tell me why neighbors of a certain ‘low’ sort have to conduct their family arguments in loud screeching voices out in the middle of the back yard or on the street where everybody within a hundred miles can hear them? What is it about what the Brits would call ‘people of a [...]
Spring Fever
Posted in gardening, planting, spring on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well it’s that time of year again – or at least it is in some places on the Earth, not necessarily here in Southern Ontario where it’s still snowing and looks like it will keep on going until September. I’m talking about Spring – you know, that time of year when flowers pop their [...]
