September 6, 2010
Wunderbar turn in the weather. Woke to November. A pity because I was watering the garden til 9.50pm and fumbling to pick tomatoes in the dark (45 of them!) Today I had to hunt out in the apartment .. the hot water bottle and the ginger tea. In anycase it made me look forward to Autumn which is sometimes my most favourite time of year.
September 6, 2010
These are very Johnny Appleseed days … and this calls for none other than Joe agus the lads.
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I actually prefer the organ in this one: and the random hit it when I remember tambourine.
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September 5, 2010
Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing in Dublin
Activist Kate O’Sullivan, from Cork, attempted to make a citizen’s arrest during the signing before Blair’s security team dragged her away.
“I went up to him and I said ‘Mr Blair, I’m here to make a citizen’s arrest for the war crimes that you’ve committed’,” said O’Sullivan, 24, a member of the Irish Palestine Solidarity Movement.
September 5, 2010
It dawned on me today how to improve the current library collection.
I regularly find books in the Canadiana reference section and then discover there are no circulating copies when I try to borrow them. Sometimes if I look online the books are for sale on abe or where-ever, therefore I am going to keep a list of what’s out of circ. and if I find a copy for sale on a used books site submit a request that the library purchase it.
I am not entirely hopeful, but I think the collection should have as many of these books in circulation as is possible, even if it is only single copies. It seems vital to me to update what’s missing and am surprised this hasn’t been done til now.
I have this idealism that the public should be able to access literature, especially local literature, and the collection should not become depleted because of wear and tear and disappearing copies back in the 1980’s.
September 4, 2010
The other evening when visiting friends on Saltspring we all, en masse, watched an instructional video on swimming. I was surprised at how captivating it was. The audience of all kinds of ages were impassioned with views on the content, on the science, on the fashion and more. The night before we had watched a BBC Sherlock Holmes film (filmed I swiftly noted in Dublin) so perhaps were in the mind of investigating every detail.
The farm we stayed on had a long history. I was particularly captivated by an older out building which had at one time and for a long time housed the farm workers (Japanese workers and orphans from Victoria according to a history book chapter our hosts gave me). I clambered into its rickety and collapsing lookin structure to explore. There were two buildings in fact and both of them were curious. You could see the pantry arrangement and some remnants of the bunks. There was a big old geysir in the bathroom of one house and a lovely looking old Stanley style range. That house had been habitable up until 1986. It bought home to me how quickly dwellings dilapidate when there’s no one to live in them and upkeep them and give them a reason to stand up. Also the small spaces groups of workers inhabited and I wondered how at the end of a hot day of intense physical labour how they kept their heads about them in such close proximity to each other.
September 4, 2010
My post box investigation has proved fruitful. I’ve discovered the post boxes have not been removed entirely, rather they’ve been relocated and it’s a matter of locating the relocation.
There does not seem to be a pattern, sequence or hint at information, but eyes open and they soon alight on the post boxes.
I am so glad I raised the issue because I have noticed new post boxes! And had many interesting conversations.