Suffering from cabin fever, we went flying again on Sunday, intending to make it to Lachute for lunch, but low clouds hung over the hills north of the Ottawa River and thickened mistily over the flat country to the east of Papineauville, so that made...
In the 1956 an athlete called Jackie MacDonald (b. 1932) took part in the Melbourne Olympic Games, competing in the discus throwing and shot put events. She had won a silver and a bronze medal for Canada in the Commonwealth Games. She is still regarded...
As if I hadn't enough to do with cardboard boxes (with all the full ones cluttering our living room), this afternoon Elva and I, afterwards joined by Chris, volunteered to construct and fill a great many more. This was at the company premises of our...
With the house all dusty and disrupted I spent more time than usual "on the road" (or simply out around the corner) last week and one of the essentials I carried with me was something to read during lunch in the coffee shops. Chris had encouraged me to...
