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Feb 3, 2012, 8:27 pm
I’ve recently started knitting and crocheting so of course this turned inti an opportunity to acquire a new Tom Bihn bag. The Swift was designed on a survey among knitters on what they wanted out of their dream bag. It’s practical, roomy, light, and stylish, the hallmark of TomBihn products. Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 9:12 am
I went online for the first time in january 1996. In those days, at least in Brazil, the Internet was still limited to government institutions and a cousin of my cousin worked for the WHO and had Internet through his job. We browsed a couple sites (one on the castles of Ireland), which was ok, and t... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2011, 1:38 pm
One of the things I love about Toronto is the streetcars. Not sure why I like them better than other forms of public transit, but I do.
Today one of them derailed at a very busy intersection. Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 11:13 am
When hubby and I moved from Montreal to Toronto back in 2003 all our friends reacted predictably each giving us a long list of why we would hate Toronto. Top on that list was the “fact” that Torontonians are unfriendly and don’t know how to have fun. In a recent Toronto Life article, Philip Pr... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 9:52 am
I would probably not be able to write long posts on my cheapie smartphone but if I could post images, it might revive this blog a bit. Writing this from CRRS. Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2011, 9:53 pm
This blog is quickly running the risk of becoming a cat blog. I apologize to those who haven’t had the pleasure of living with don’t like cats. There’s much else I wanted to blog about: the beautiful summer we’ve been having here in Toronto, the Jarvis ride protest (we were there!), the curr... Comment - Like
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Jun 18, 2011, 7:21 am
About a week after Gigi was adopted, ACR contacted me about Winston. One of ACR’s volunteers trapped him while feeding a colony she maintains. She has fed the colony for years and knows well each cat in it so when this little grey ball of fur appeared from nowhere and butted his way through the bi... Comment - Like
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Jun 4, 2011, 8:07 am
Little Gigi came from a litter of 7 kittens who were saved from a rough life on the streets. While her siblings were placed in pairs at foster homes, she came to us by herself since we had two 9 week-old kittens that could keep her company.
She was only 6 weeks old and so tiny but boy was she feist... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 11:54 am
I wanted to have a cat for a while but wasn’t sure I was ready to commit long term. Since Alan never had cats before, he was also unsure about it. So I started fostering for Annex Cat Rescue back in December to gain some experience with these wonderful animals and test the waters. Readers of this ... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 11:26 am
Wow, has it been over two months since the last picture post? The nature of blogs have definitely changed in the past couple of years as more and more bloggers (myself included) choose to post on Facebook or Twitter content that once would have been shared on the blog. I noticed I changed a lot in h... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2011, 7:50 pm
A happy accident. For some reason, the film did not advance and I exposed the same film twice. Nice effect, eh?
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Jan 30, 2011, 6:15 pm
Anybody who knows me, however briefly, is aware that food matters to me. A lot. My earliest memories as a child are food-related memories and promises of a shrimp dish or another was a fail-proof way my parents had to get me to do anything when I was little. I am often moved to tears when I read abo... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2011, 11:36 pm
Since December, I’ve volunteered our home to foster a cat who’s waiting to find a new forever home. Patchy is our first foster. She’s a 3 year-old female cat whose owner recently died. She spent two weeks by herself in the house where she lived (being fed daily by a caregiver) and got to us pr... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 9:34 am
Every year, I make all kinds of resolutions only to completely ignore them for the next 12 months. Actually, that’s not true. I did accomplish quite a bit this year:
I finished a draft of my dissertation over the summer.
I got to teach a course I’ve always wanted to
I slowly started getting bac... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2010, 8:52 am
The outline of the story sounds familiar. A couple files for divorce. The split is anything but consensual. The woman asks authorities for protection after receiving threats from her husband. The woman in question? All we know is her name – Duenya – daughter of Mosse Haim, a Jew from the town of... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2010, 2:14 pm
It’s a conspiracy. Canadians take Remembrance Day very seriously and every year ceremonies take place everywhere in the country. The University of Toronto has a moving procession that ends at Hart House Tower, where each of the colleges place a reef in honour of those who died in war. As a Non-res... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2010, 8:05 pm
I’ve had my iPad for about a month now and it’s about time I write a balance of how I feel about it since many of my friends keep asking me to let them know. I’m sure you realized by now that the only reason I have a blog these days is so I don’t have to type the same information twice – n... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2010, 8:11 am
When I got back from a year in Barcelona, I felt that I had progressed enough as a photographer to warrant a DSLR. I got myself a Nikon D80 and if you remember, I was very excited about it. But after 2-3 years using the D80, although I was happy with it, I felt something was missing. Alan started da... Comment - Like
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Aug 22, 2010, 10:04 pm
This poor blog has been abandoned for so long that I don’t even know if people still stop by. It was all for a good cause, I assure you. Last Tuesday I handed in a full draft of my dissertation to my supervisor. It was nice seeing all the chapters together and finally think of the work as a whole ... Comment - Like
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May 23, 2010, 6:08 pm
I’ve finally done it! I got myself a new domain and moved the blog to a new server. From now on, please follow this blog at http://www.peregrinatrix.com . I’m still tweaking the layout, all the youtube videos need to be fixed since they can now be embedded directly. If you subscribe to this blog... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2010, 12:23 pm
Wow, I can’t believe it’s been more than a month since I last posted anything on this blog. It’s been insanely busy at Casa Nostra, which is what it should be in the last few months before finishing a dissertation. I finished the last of my marking at the end of April, beginning of May. Since ... Comment - Like
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