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Fish heads, fish heads Part Four
Link to Part One. Greasy was a heavy equipment operator, who owned a shop on the edge of town. He and his family lived in a trailer behind the shop. He was short and powerfully built and as for the rest of his description, well Greasy pretty much sums it up. He had a known…
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Lucky
It’s five thirty in the morning, check that it’s six thirty, (we’ve sprung forward) and Hilary is in her swing, gurgling away with her latest story. She is showing no signs of sleeping having gotten up an hour and half ago hungry. She’s babbling now, and when I look up at her she gives me…
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How did this happen?
Seems like I just read all of my favourite blogs and now everyone has two or three posts up. Did I get sucked into a vortex or something? Not only that but two of them are carnivals! I really really said I was going to have a post for I and The Bird #20, seeing…
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Ahhh!
You can’t possibly imagine how much I’m enjoying cooking in this kitchen…..
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Almost there
I know that the posts have been rather far apart, but well, things at the house are getting close… no time no time. And we’ve had our first paying customers. Woo hoo, we’re a business. We aren’t quite ready for people as there are a number little details to get there but…Ian and Jennifer of…
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A shift in the world of writing
Want evidence that blogging has become something more than just a way of people sharing their world with others. Baghdad Burning, a blog by an anonymous woman in Iraq, has just been nominated for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The thirty thousand Pounds Sterling prize is traditionally awarded to books, not blogs. She…
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Fish heads, fish heads Part Three
Link to Part one One thing that I’ve always envied about police on television is that they only have to deal with one matter at a time. Well, that and the fact they have absolutely no paperwork to do. Unfortunately in the real world events, such as Darren’s murder don’t take place in a vacuum.…
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Some odds and ends
If you haven’t checked out the Nunavut Blogs! blogroll in a while, there has been some more blogs added, eight in total now. Arctic Bay is no longer my exclusive blogging domain, for amongst the new blogs is Way Way Up. Way Way Up is the blog of Darcy, one of the local teachers here.…
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Vernal Equinox
Today is the day of the Vernal or Spring Equinox. Although my spring is still a long way off this does mark the day where all the world has the same amount of sun as us. From now on though, for the next six months we’ll have the sun above the horizon more than practically…
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Fish heads, fish heads Part two
(Link to Part One) Jasper (This name has been changed, a youth at the time he cannot be identified) also had had a troubled youth. Affable and a natural leader he unfortunately had been in frequent scrapes with the law. One winter along he, along with various others, had broken into a local snowmobile dealer’s…
