I confess I’m not the best house-husband. Sure I do some chores around here, but I’ll never be Marie Kondo and many times if it weren’t for Tuffy P (who sees everything), I simply wouldn’t notice many things until desperate measures are required. This was… Read More
I do a lot of the shopping for our household, and I shop for groceries at a number of places, including 3 different grocery stores with an ethnic focus. They are Grants, which is an Asian market, Starsky’s with Polish (etc) focus, and Adonis, with… Read More
This is the stuff of spy movies. Chess grandmaster Igors Rausis fessed up to cheating and has “retired” from chess after being caught cheating. Apparently he was confronted with a grainy photo showing him sitting fully clothed on a toilet with a phone during a… Read More
There was a lot of litter this morning in an area on top of the Scarborough Bluffs. It seems there were quite a few assholes there setting off Canada Day fireworks the other day, who thought the best thing to do with their litter was… Read More
…an occasional afternoon nap is good for the soul.
Our federal government has announced plans to ban single-use plastic containers at some point in the near future. That will be quite a challenge, but I think collectively we can live with less plastic in our lives. There will be mis-steps and difficulties along the… Read More
Tuffy P broke a pair of reading glasses. The little screw worked itself out and became lost in the ether, leaving the arm of the glasses to fall off. No problem, right? Our local drugstore has these little kits, with a tiny screwdriver and several… Read More
There’s an industrial area in the South Etobicoke area of Toronto, not too far north of us, around the expressway and the tracks. Mostly we don’t pay much attention to it. Today, camera in hand, I drove around the area, taking pictures as research material… Read More
At a certain point a number of months ago, a space alien appeared on my face, more specifically on my right cheek. It was subtle at first. It looked like 3 or 4 raised lesions, slightly lighter than my skin colour and it was not… Read More
Our old furnace is just that – old. But it’s been serviceable. Our nephew Terence is in the heating/air conditioning business and he’s been suggesting over the past two or three years that it might be time to get a new (and more efficient) one.… Read More
