Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Friday, 4 March 2016
Adieu, February.
Adieu, February. In no particular order.
Taking this and all future birthdays as a vacation day—this
is the best decision, so far
Indulging in an enormous Cake & Loaf hazelnut éclair and
having no guilt about it
A stranger speaks in an urban coffee-shop
Family Day spent with family
The Anger in Ernest
and Ernestine at Soulpepper Theatre
Embracing winter tomatoes
A gift of Dillon’s gin
Revisiting Bleu—the French
windows
Amateur mixologists
Sighting of one neighbour-the rest remain in
hibernation
A Winter’s Tale at
Coal Mine Theatre~conversing with strangers in a cramped lobby
The stamina to sit through a trial and listen to how your
husband was probably shot at close range; his bone fragments vacuumed up out of
the incinerator for you
15-degree temperatures
Karl Nordstrom
News of AbFab reaches us
Salvaged meatballs at the bottom of the soup pot—an enormous
coup
Bulbous whales
Susan Coyne’s Kingfisher
Days
Aberdeen Tavern luncheon
Tequila in the afternoon
Barns in winter light
Oysters
Cemeteries in winter light
…rotting plush of the rose bush... BP Kelly
Harald Sohlberg
Worn granite
Festoon
“Are you recording this conversation?”
Brock’s blanket
Plant therapy
Cuttlefish
Red
Mr. Turner--what of the house-keeper?
Michael Winter’s Minister
Without Porfolio~rooting for a fictional orange horse—willing it to bust
out of that horse trailer
Spiced-chocolate pots & fresh cream
Crack of good chocolate
Molly Johnson with Mr. Botos at the piano
Spicy yellow-beet soup
Tank glassworks
Re-Reading bookstore
The farce that is the Primaries
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Showing January The Door.
Lots of moaning and groaning from the masses about how crap January was. Here are some positive notes.
New
Year’s Full Monty breakfast with family
The
moment when you nearly spend $445 on a night of Wagner
Crisp,
clear, star-filled evenings
Planning
theatre season
When
the past comes to find you
Potted-trout
Gift
of vanilla, from away
Books
that make you laugh and cry and frighten you all in one chapter
Vampires
with a conscience
Someone
offered up their space in the grocery line
Brown-butter
cod
Tending
new plants
The
Thomson snuff bottles
Alisa
Siegel docs
The
minutiae of other people’s lives
Tabatha
Southey columns
No
significant snowfall, month #3
Duck
sausage
Catharsis
in the dental chair II
Mint-condition
used books
Cauliflower
frenzy
That
people flock to an art gallery to look at Turner paintings
Warm
chocolate-chip cookies at the Young Centre
People-watching
European
church bells playing Bowie
Frostwork
Scotch
pies
Frederick
and cookbooks
Palin
Humour
Treated
to lunch
The
Galloway Giggle
Kathy
Bates, who never disappoints
Harwood
wine with pasta-the memory of Prince Edward County in a bottle
Fiery-pink
morning skies
The
legacy of actors and musicians
Toronto
commute in under an hour-first time in a long time
Community
activism
Dumplings
That
$60 shirt I got for $15
January
31 and still steeped in Xmas atmosphere
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