Monthly Archives: January 2018

Still Tasty.com which lists expiry dates for food and beverage products of all kinds. A product you’re using can expire within days or last months regardless of the expiry date shown on the product (which is just the latest date … Continue reading →

Why did they ban the story of the mother who worked her fingers to the bone knitting hosiery to pay for her daughter’s music lessons? Too much socks and violins.

American writer (Van Johnson) meets a prominent British politician’s (Peter Cushing) wife (Deborah Kerr) during WWII. They are fascinated with each other in a case of love at first sight and begin an affair which one day stops abruptly when … Continue reading →

As 2 female profs at Wilfrid Laurier discovered when they received $6000 bonuses that none of the male profs got. Wrong gender. Expect more of this reverse discrimination spawned by pc-ness down the road.

Changes and returns: Daniel Craig is back; the toughest Bond in the series. Blofeld is back. A new M–Ralph Fiennes. A new Moneypenny and Q. A jaw-dropping opening: the helicopter sequence. The grand opening musical theme sequence. A decent quota … Continue reading →

‘Starting out’: what could that 1st ‘upper class’ girl (not pictured here) have seen in working class gr. 9 me at that first church dance? Ironically, the only girl (from here) at my school’s 100th anniversary was the one beside … Continue reading →

–John Burroughs

–Alexander Stoddart

natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them–that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” –Lao Tzu

–Henry David Thoreau