By the time this article crosses your doorstep, the proverbial groundhog is getting set to see, or…
Bits and Pieces
White-crowned
Each morning as I wander out to check and feed my birds, I am usually greeted by someone or other…
Lazyitis
It has not yet hit the medical journals, but I personally have been ravished by several seizures of…
January 2014
I’m at the age that has allowed me to see quite a number of Januaries flick by, yet on…
Read history
Do parliamentarians not read history? Are they not willing to learn from others’ mistakes?…
Bragging time again
It’s bragging time again. I can’t believe it, but it will take an extra five fingers…
Winter wonderland
When I looked out of my window two days before sitting down to write this column, the sun was…
Frosty Freeze
I now believe what the weather forecasters have been nattering about when reporting the weather,…
British Home Children
For almost five years now, a newspaper clipping has clung, scotch-taped, to the dusty wall that…
Never too old
Hey! Hey! Hey! You’re not going to believe this, but you are never too old to learn. I got…
Frosty Friday
I slept in the other morning. When I awoke, the sun was shining at about nine o’clock high.…
Is 80 old?
Prior to a weekend just past, a phone call came from a neighbour who lives a couple of country…
Discrimination
I finally got around to cleaning up my living room coffee table the other day. It was piled high…
Smile pile
Periodically, when I’m a little busy, when time runs out, and a deadline lurks, my thinker…
Early fall
Fall has come early this year. The not so warm days of mid August, and the sharp drop in…