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Planting Poetry
Went poetry shopping with Oliver.Went poetry shopping for the first time ever.I’ll take a Tanya Davis, to go, please.And I’ll plant it in the snow.Tanya DavisPoetryThe Bookmark
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No Golfing
Finally the anti-golfing movement takes hold on the Island.GolfSignageVictoria Park
View Article51,821 spam comments
CleanTalk, the comment spam filtering service that I use to allow me to reasonably maintain the ability to accept comments here, reports that in the last week it filtered 51,821 spam comments and...
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My Trousers Are Falling Down
A year ago this morning I weighed 195 pounds. This morning I weigh 184 pounds.I know this because I’ve been weighing myself on a wifi-enabled bathroom scale for the last year:That I weigh 11 pounds...
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Peter Pan Ain't Coming Back
Even though in the years since I last wrote about it, I’ve become a vegetarian, I’d always entertained hopes that the much-vaunted Peter Pan restaurant, on the Peter Pan corner, would be...
View ArticleCoping
Danny Gregory writes, in part, in Hope to cope:Worry is an obsessive series of thoughts that needs to be diverted. Stress is a body thing that needs to be purged like bad sushi. But you can’t just...
View ArticleNorthumbrian Smallpipes
An excellent four minute introduction to the Northumbrian smallpipes from Kathryn Tickell.MusicPipes
View Article"In the name of our shared humanity..."
Friend of the blog, and Artistic Director of Norristown, Pennsylvania’s Theatre Horizon, Nell Bang-Jensen, in a video release this week:As you can imagine, the idea of social distancing is very...
View ArticleControl + Alt + Delete
I was reminded last night that SARS touched Prince Edward Island in 2003 to the extent that I wrote about it here, and to the extent that the Chief Public Health Officer was issuing advisories about...
View ArticlePen Night in the Clouds
Rather than completely cancelling our monthly Pen Night here in Charlottetown, we’re moving it into the clouds, via Zoom videoconference.This is an experiment, as we’ve no idea if what works about Pen...
View ArticleMo Willems Doodles Daily
Author and illustrator Mo Willems is doodling every day at lunchtime on YouTube, under the aegis of his “Artist in Residence at Home” at the Kennedy Center:Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and...
View ArticleTiny Ruins
Haunts, a 2013 EP from New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins, is a good way to remind yourself about why music is a good thing.A collection of older songs/B-sides. Recorded live in the bush surroundings of the...
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"The fury of the tempest during the awful conflagration in Prince Street, on...
From the Colonial Herald, February 3, 1844, a letter to the editor from the residents of Prince Street:The fire to which the correspondents refer took place the previous day, in the middle of a snow...
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The Dr. Heather Morrison Show
Every day at 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., Dr. Heather Morrison, Prince Edward Island’s Chief Public Health Officer, provides a a live briefing to Islanders about COVID-19.In this time of great uncertainty,...
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Merry Bobbins
One of the things that has given me the most pleasure in the two months since Catherine died has been finding new homes for the tools and supplies that were the stuff of her trade.Our friend Carol came...
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We're down to the last four slices of bread...
Time to resurrect a long dormant skillset and get some dough rising.I like books that wear their history on their sleeves.
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Proofed
Recipe says to proof until dough doubles in size. I think this qualifies.Bagels
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