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Division Bells
As children of the mother-democracy in the United Kingdom, we here in the Commonwealth can sometimes forget that our own practice of day to day parliamentary practice has evolved since we forged out on...
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In a land there’s a town, and in that town there’s a house And in that house there’s a woman And in that woman there’s a heart I love I’m gonna take it with me when I goIf I could choose one musician...
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The One Where Oliver Got Locked in the Bathroom and Was Rescued
Ten years ago this week I got on a plane with Oliver and flew to the far eastern edge of Europe. Here’s what we looked like just before our departure, loaded up with our backpacks and ready for...
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As is our tradition, Oliver and I head off together tomorrow for a March school break trip, our last one, as Oliver finishes public school in June.Our final destination is Portland, Oregon, where we’ll...
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My introduction to my friend Harold Stephens came through his book Who Needs a Road?Published in 1967, the book details his trip around the world in a Toyota Land Cruiser.Because of geographic and...
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DuckDuckGo
Via Patrick Rhone, a pointer to The ultimate guide to DuckDuckGo from Brett Terpstra.I’ve been slowing replacing Google’s search with DuckDuckGo’s search on my desktop and mobile over the last year,...
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From Archdeacon John Clarke’s blog:Yes flowers! Last October, all the members of the congregation, as well as several of our nation’s Anglican Bishops, were invited to plant tulip bulbs in the front...
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Chasing the Sunset
We flew Charlottetown-Montreal-Vancouver today; we didn’t leave Charlottetown until 4:00 p.m. and we’re in bed in Vancouver at 11:00 p.m. Such is the wonder of the rotating Earth. We had but one...
View ArticleSolving PEI's Internet Access Problem
Exciting news from the provincial government: PEI Transformation From Canada’s Smallest Province To Canada’s Smartest Province:From high-speed Internet access and full-motion videoconferencing, to...
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Encountering our First Amazonians
On the way down to the elevator in our hotel this morning I mentioned to Oliver that we were going to get coffee in a building where Amazon also has offices.“Be careful what you say,” he said, “and...
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Public Service Announcement: the CleanTalk service I use to trap comment spam gete is breaking and you will more likely than not encounter protest if you try to comment. I’m on it.
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On the Ferry
Valerie Bang-Jensen and her family are one of the great gifts this blog has given me. As it happened, Valerie’s visit to Seattle overlapped with ours, so we spent a very pleasant afternoon, with her...
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The Dream of the 90s
As related earlier, we did not take the direct route from Charlottetown to Portland: we left Charlottetown on Monday afternoon, and arrived Portland late on Wednesday evening, more than 48 hours later....
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Walking in Portland
Our friend Oliver took this photo of us yesterday as we were walking over the Tilikum Crossing Bridge in Portland.
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Turn Knob to Start
The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks & Minerals is located in a purpose-built ranch-style house west of Portland.The washroom near the phosphorescence room is a bona fide residential washroom, in...
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Friday in Portland
Friday morning in Portland we decided that we wanted to experiment with driving a car2go car, and a desire to visit a Best Buy in the suburbs to look at phones presented a conceit.We’d previously...
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Master of the Impromptu
In the end, the only area of human activity where I truly excel is in the organization of impromptu adventures while traveling. And there is no more fertile ground for this skill than the awkward night...
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Back from the West Coast
Oliver and I finished up our March school break trip to the west coast last night, arriving home just before midnight on the flight from Montreal.While I posted some updates from the road, here I’ll...
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