Bar’s Open
I don’t know where the regular staff is– buried in tinsel or stuck in a pudding for all I know, perhaps they were abducted by pirates! That’s right, it’s Pantomime Season. Whether you’re classical...
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Panto Bar
Welcome to Panto Bar, secret hangout of underground Panto players. What? You didn’t know? Well it’s a secret innit? Look over there, have you ever seen a more boffo Widow Twinky? Know the secret to her...
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Today is the shortest day of the year, but for me it is the longest. I’ve been awake, off and on since midnight riding a wave of memories. Most of mine can be shared with only a handful of people, it’s...
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Where Are You Now? asta, January
Feeling Nebraska-ish The blues usually hit me in February, but winter weather came early and so I am ahead of schedule. One of my knees has been waiting for surgery since last year. Three-month wait to...
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Where Are You Now? asta, February
England is awash, America’s east coast is still frantically battling successive onslaughts of ice and snow while the west is a dust bowl and Quebec, is….Quebec. The plow’s been by four times in the...
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Curling, WTF?
Canada has two winter sports passions- hockey and curling. The world understands hockey, it’s like any other team sport with opposing nets, except on ice with fights. Curling is just weird. Growing up,...
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Where Are You Now? asta, April
This is the view from the spa last week, before the snow and the river flooding and the return to deep freeze temperatures. Even without all those, it doesn’t look warm and hospitable. It’s not. It’s...
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FOUR
Mallard straggler. The Snow Geese are long gone. The Canada Geese are still moving out in droves. Ducks just putter around until ice forces them south.
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