Monthly Archives: June 2011

What’s so Funny ‘Bout Rain, Thunder, Peace, Love & Understanding?

It rained and it rained and the sky bellowed and slammed out bits of lightning, and we waited watching out the windows for reprieve which seemed to never come. So we just left. Armed with two gunnysacks of collapsible chairs, … Continue reading

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Ottawa Jazz Festival

It’s a time of Festivals in Ottawa, Dragon Boat, Jazz, Blues and Ribs. Tomorrow evening we will be seeing Elvis Costello just down the street in Confederation Park. I’m not sure what he will be playing but it will be … Continue reading

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Boots

These were my grandfather’s boots. He was, some of the time, a lumberjack on the Ottawa river. We still have his pike. His boots I threw into a landfill some years back. My mother wanted to clear out the detritus and ephemera of forty years on. As they … Continue reading

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Plunk

I started blogging back in 2001, so to celebrate my 10th anniversary I have built this lovely new WordPress driven Website. All those years of customizing blogger templates paid off in so many different aspects of Web Development. Blogging was … Continue reading

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Death of a Clown

One of my favourite Kinks songs on Ray Davies Birthday as sung by his brother Dave. Apparently they don’t talk anymore.

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