Daughter A is a volunteer Nest Box Monitor for the Stanley Park Ecology Society. She goes around the park once a week, observing activity and reporting the data. Usually she runs, but last weekend she turned it into a walk and we joined her, binoculars, camera and Peterson guide in hand. Husband and I took transit to…
I’ve been overly occupied with work during the last few months. But I’ve got a couple of difficult assignments behind me and am ready to lighten up. Let’s start with some music and Cuba – spend 11 minutes to watch this video shot in Matanzas. It is really good – I will be very disappointed…
{This was composed on a flight and saved for posting on a slow day…} I’ve been browsing through the movies selections, planning my entertainment for the next few hours, as well as the return trip. Under ‘Documentaries’ is My Perestroika, the story of 5 people from the last generation to be brought up behind the…
I don’t like writing book reviews. I like reading books and telling you I’ve read them, and maybe giving a thumbs up or down. Reviewing them requires mental effort that is better spent starting a new one. Nevertheless, I need to earn my little piece of blog space, so I will write something. The Emperor…
On a flight not long ago I watched The Way with Martin Sheen. It was a moderately good movie about a middle-aged American who walks the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, in honour of his son who had just died. I’ve had an interest in doing some or all of the Camino for quite a while. More…
The title of this post could be the name of my blog! What do you think? Movie recommendation coming up… On the flight to Montreal (5 hours) I watched 2 movies: Goin’ Down the Road (1970) – “Produced for $27,000… among the last great flowerings of what might be called NFB downer naturalism.” (Isn’t that…
I am packing for a 4-day trip to Montreal. Don’t need any of my usual fashion items, since I’ll be there for a meeting of a bunch of engineers, and they will NOT expect any style from me. Except maybe the usual “urban utilitarian” as my friend Sue labelled it. (She is famous for Florida-retirement-villa capris.) I’ll be…
Some of you know how close I am to the fashion world. And those people will know the extent of the gap! However, I do have some claims to fashion fame – starting with Barbara Tfank , who has become justly famous for dressing Michelle Obama very elegantly and now Adele. Last year I put…
Seeing Clarely 