The new episode of The Agency Podcast is now available. Listen right here or find us where all the cool kids get their podcasts (and the other places too) This Week:CornDads in restaurantsCleaning chopsticksNapkin MoneyBreaking Down Top Gun MaverickThe DambustersTop Secret SewingComedians in CarsPublic Realm… Read More
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The Garden Tour
Last Saturday, 34 Long Branch addresses opened their gardens to the public for the day. The Long Branch Garden Tour was back after a 2-year pandemic hiatus. Gardeners around our community spent long hours out in the garden before Saturday, getting everything just so. People… Read More
Dinner Service
I noticed a couple baby house sparrows in one of the bird houses out back. They were sticking their heads out, jockeying for position, waiting for lunch.
Ho! The West
The new episode of The Agency Podcast is now available. Listen right here or find it at all the good podcast places. This week:Slow West (by request)Scallops in the Comfort Food DinerSewing storiesListener mailEmail The Agents anytime – share your dreams.
Breakfast Television on Twenty Seventh Street
The Long Branch Garden Tour is back! It will take place Saturday June 25, 10-4, rain or shine. We were very fortunate to host the fabulous Frankie “Flowers” from Breakfast Television this morning – he did his weather updates from our garden and generously promoted… Read More
Play Till Ya Die
The new episode of The Agency Podcast is now available. Listen right here or find it at all the best podcast places. This week: The agents watch three music documentaries. The first, Dave Grohl’s WHAT DRIVES US about life on the road of bands in… Read More
Buck Fever Rag
Buck Fever Rag was written by the late great Reg Hill. Mr. Hill was the fiddler in Mac Beattie’s Ottawa Valley Melodiers, but he also had several great solo recordings. I’d bet dollars to donuts the scrub-board player on the Reg Hill cut is Mac… Read More
Marmalade Sandwiches
This week:Listener mailBob’s Burgers – the moviePaddington 2 – almost perfectJohn le Carré’s final novelPoor Koko Email The Agents anytime.Listen right here or find the latest episode at all the good podcast places.
Deer at Thomson Memorial Park
Today marked the last in the current series of nature walks from the Toronto District School Board, and led by naturalist Miles Hearn. We met up at 8:00 this morning at Thomson Memorial Park, which is at Brimley Rd and Lawrence Ave E in Scarborough.… Read More
A Game Called Go
The Agents watch The Surrounding Game, a documentary about aspiring Go game players vying for professional Go player status. They also talk about some food, art, government grants, their email account… And more about Go. Listen right here or find it at all the best… Read More