Category: Literature

  • Ca bhfuil tu Niamh?

    We miss you in the mornings Mrs.

    Enough of this Donegal Malarky…!

  • Oh joy of joy one of my favourite gardeners has just bestowed on me, one of his rocket plants! I have been salivating over his plot and noticed today he’d extradited the plant to the compost pile. He went home and dug one from his home garden and presented it to me with an orange trowel.

    I love gardening in a community because you have constant advice and reflection plus “caring & sharing” as we’d say to three year olds.. All these people who bare witness to your vegetable fecundity! Jingle Jangle, yeah, yeah, yeah. Umph!

  • A total of 240 wildfires have broken out in BC in past 48 hours.

    State of emergency declared for the Xgat’tem, or Canoe Creek First Nation. (40km south of Williams Lake) 3 evacuation orders in place in total.

    To report a forest fire/wildfire call *5555 (cell)

  • “The art pundit, Boris Jack, would be in evidence no doubt, along with those rival art reviewers for the two major dailies, Polly Glot and Polly Nana, who resented each other not because of any difference in their view of art but because readers generally lumped them together as “The Parrots.”

    The Goldfish That Exploded. Mary Beth Knechtel. (Arsenal Pulp Press)

  • “If planting bulbs could have stopped the dread of spring, Ruth would have gardened in the middle of the night, but for her there was never any way out of a fact.”

    The Young in One Another’s Arms. Jane Rule (Arsenal Pulp Press)

  • Reids

    Feb 1945. (Photographer: Coltman, Don |  Steffens Colmer)

  • Feb 1945. Feb 1945. (Photographer: Coltman, Don |  Steffens Colmer)

  • May 1974

    Tip Top Tailors Ltd.

    (300 West Hastings St North side) Copyright City of Vancouver. Creator planning department)

  • Oct 26 1943

    Superior Stores.

  • 165 new wildfires overnight (BC Interior) caused by lightning strikes.