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Summer Solstice
Today is the Summer Solstice, and I suppose it is somehow appropriate that an hour after I went to bed Hilary awoke and refuses all of my entreaties that she sleep. I’ve given up now of course, and she sits in her swing and I count down the moments until it is time to get…
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First Friday
Amy Hooper, the force behind Wild Bird on the Fly, has decided to rectify the dearth of Birding Fiction out there with a contest. Her brainchild, First Friday, is set to be a monthly fiction contest, to encourage birding Fiction. The rules are fairly simple, 500 words of birding themed fiction, and no anthropomorphizing the…
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Shooyook… Part 1
The High Arctic is rich in history, some recent, some ancient. People have lived in this area for at least 3,500 years. There are those who believe the Vikings visited here, not so far fetched an idea given our proximity to Greenland. There was certainly trade with them as some of their textiles or yarn…
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Why I dislike the City
I dislike the city because since the best writer on the web, Whippoorwill, moved there in December she has only posted 26 times. Because her posts steadily declined in January, February, and March. Because she only posted once in April and hasn’t posted since the 12th of that month. As much as I hate to…
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Yeats
Politics by William Butler Yeats How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on RussianOr on Spanish politics? Yet here’s a travelled man that knowsWhat he talks about, And there’s a politician That has read and thought,And maybe what they say is true Of war and war’s alarms,But O that…
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Breakfast
One of my favourite side dishes to serve with breakfast is candied bacon. It couldn’t be any simpler to make and adds a lot to the meal. Simply season some brown sugar, I usually use a healthy dose of fresh ground pepper. It needs a fairly robust spice to compliment the sweetness, so use pepper…
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The other Clare Kines
Sixty-two years ago today my namesake died, murdered actually. And although it may seem strange to talk about murder in the midst of war, he along with 133 other Canadian and two British POW’s were executed, well away from the front lines, by members of the 12th Panzer Hitler Jugen. He was 29. Clare Davidson…
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I and the Bird #25
Rob, of Rob’s Idaho Perspective is the latest host of I and the Bird, the premiere carnival that turns one year old in two more editions. As always it is filled with excellent posts on Birds from the whole world over. Head straight over there, as the Bird flys and get reading. By the way,…
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The Devil went down to… Langley
It is, of course, the End of the World tonight. Tonight being the 6th of June 2006, or written another way is 6/6/’6 or 666. Which of course was written about in Revelations as the mark of the Beast so naturally it follows that today the world ends. Doesn’t it? As if you needed more…
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How to foster doubt in the weatherman
Okay, so this afternoon I received a phone call that started off basically like this…. "Hi, my name is ……., I’m a forecaster with Environment Canada. Could you tell me what the weather is like there right now?" I always thought it was more high tech than that.
