I just finished reading the rollercoaster ride that is Life, the autobiography of Keith Richards, written with James Fox. I’ve never been a big Rolling Stones fan. I like their catchy melodies and they used to do a good job covering Chicago blues, but really… Read More
I enjoy listening to Portuguese folk music. Maybe it’s because I lived in a mostly Portugese area of Toronto for quite a while and have a fondness for Portugese culture. Here’s a player named Raul Godinho who really knows his way around the chromatic button… Read More
Some mushrooms are easy to identify without a lot of work. Sometimes, it’s not so easy. Mushrooms don’t always cooperate and look just the way the picture in the field guide does , and if truth were known, there are mistakes in even the best… Read More
Here’s Glen Qvarnström
I like this little garden a lot, at the back edge of the yard on the edge of the woodsy patch. Tuffy P has done a fantastic job looking after this front garden, which just keeps getting better. Even in October, it has retained a… Read More
Kensington Market has long been one of my favourite places in Toronto. I was there the other day, buying some clothing, a new wallet, some excellent cheese and a bite of lunch.
Going out to a restaurant for dinner is the exception rather than the rule for Tuffy P and I, but this last week, we found ourselves out two nights in a row. First we went to Pangea to celebrate our anniversary, and then last night,… Read More
Tuffy P and I are celebrating 10 years of marriage today. We’re off to Pangea for dinner this evening.
So there I was, surfing around YouTube, listening to Finnish accordion music, when I came across a video featuring a most interesting instrument, apparently called a nyckelharpa. Check it out: I consulted Wikipedia. The internets know everything, right? A nyckelharpa (literally “key harp”, plural nyckelharpor… Read More
Here is a player named Graham Irvine performing Argyll pipe tunes on button accordion. It looks to me like the box he’s playing is a three-row chromatic button accordion. I don’t listen to a lot of Scottish music but I’m not sure why, as I… Read More
27th Street 