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What makes you feel safe? I feel safe when the bills are paid, I have some money in the bank and my pantry is full.

Pizza in Paris A wonderful meal to eat Baked to perfection And what a joy to behold If I was in Paris right now

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 by Lucy E.M. Black, published by Now or Never Publications. (@lucyemblack) Told in Black's signature luminous prose, The Brickworks tells the story of Alistair and Brodie, two ambitious Scottish immigrants to North America at the turn of the century. This is an unforgettable story of hardship and triumph from one of the most fiercely gifted writers of historical fiction in Canada. "Wonderfully researched and lovingly told, Black again pulls the curtain back on lesser explored moments in history weaving a compassionate tapestry of determination, innovation, and love that fits well into the tradition of beloved national storytellers Michael Ondaatje and Genevieve Graham."—Rachel McMillan, author of, The London Restoration and The Mozart Code 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 is now available wherever books are sold. Congratulations , Lucy! 🧱 📖 @river_street_writes #brickworks #canlit #fiction #historicfiction #canadianbooks ...

If you could swap bodies with someone else, would you do it? And with who? I would like to swap for any body that works much better than mine. There's not much left working right on the one I've got . . . sigh.

  Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian folk rock band from Wainfleet, Ontario, and currently based in Toronto. The current touring line-up is Tony Dekker on lead vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica, Erik Arnesen on banjo, electric guitar and harmonium, Ryan Granville-Martin on drums and backing vocals, Bret Higgins on upright bass and Kelsey McNulty on keyboards and backing vocals. Past members included Julie Fader on backing vocals, Sandro Perri on guitar, and Greg Millson and Colin Huebert on drums. Studio albums Great Lake Swimmers (weewerk, 2003) Bodies and Minds (weewerk, 2005) Ongiara (Nettwerk, 2007) Lost Channels (Nettwerk, 2009) New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk, 2012) A Forest of Arms (Nettwerk, 2015) The Waves, the Wake (Nettwerk, 2018) Uncertain Country (2023) Acoustic albums The Waves, the Wake (Acoustic) (Nettwerk, 2019) Cover albums When Last We Shook Hands: Cover Songs, Vol. 1 (2020) EPs Hands in Dirty Ground (weewerk, 2006) Swimming Away (2016) They Don't Make Them Like...

Reading this book was a real shock, forcing me to rethink my position on the role of the UN in Afghanistan.  Do I believe everything this brave woman has written?  I'm not so sure.  BUT . . . I do believe what she has to say about the conditions in Afghanistan. The short history is that first the West aided the Taliban in Afghanistan to push out the Russians.  Then they aided the Northern Alliance warlords against the Taliban.  Now the UN-backed "democratic" government of Afghanistan is legitimizing the power of the Northern Alliance by seating them in the new government.  When Joya spoke out against these warlords she was removed from her democratically-earned seat in the government and is spending the rest of her life back in a burqua, not because of her religion, but because it is the only way to protect herself from assassination.  She has had to return to living underground and under a false name, something she is used to since her time t...

 Tell us about the things you would like to do if you were in your favourite foreign country.

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eldorado is community in Madoc Township, in Ontario, Canada, with a 2019 population of 50. In 1866, it was the location of Ontario's first gold rush after Marcus Herbert Powell, municipal employee and part-time prospector, found gold on John Richardson's farm on August 15, 1866. The town of Eldorado was founded in 1867. The same year, the Richardson Mine went into operation. Despite higher expectations, Powell extracted about 100 ounces of gold, worth $1,500 to $2,000 at the time, but no further gold was found. Various other mines that had quickly opened, quickly closed. In 2019 the population of Eldorado was 50, down from 4,000 during the gold rush. In contemporary times, it is considered to be a ghost town. Check out the Eldorado Experience http://www.eldoradoexperience.ca/products-and-services.html I found this very interesting article in the online Financial Post https://financialpost.com/commodities/mining/an-historic-gold-mine-in-a-...

What is your favourite time of day? I think mine is 11 pm . . . hopefully it has been a good day, I've accomplished something, and had some fun . . . and that's when I like to curl up with a good book.

This was the movie where I first fell in love with Ben Kingsley . . . an amazing amazing actor.  (Yes I meant to write amazing twice.) The movie is about Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian Independence Movement when Britain ruled India.  He is most famously known for his use of non-violent civil disobedience to further the Indian cause.   An amazing movie about a venerated man starring the perfect actor.  A must watch.   Academy Awards, USA  1983 Won Oscar Best Picture Richard Attenborough   Best Actor in a Leading Role Ben Kingsley   Best Director Richard Attenborough   Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen John Briley   Best Cinematography Billy Williams Ronnie Taylor   Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Stuart Craig Robert W. Laing Michael Seirton   Best Costume Design John Mollo Bhanu Athaiya   Best Film Editing John Bloom   Nominated Oscar Best Sound Gerry Humphreys Robin...

Name one thing you do really well . . .  One thing I do really well is solve crossword puzzles.

The Voice There you are, walking down the street, minding your own business, when you clearly hear a voice yell, "Help! Let me out of here!" Believe it or not, we actually had one of these boxes at one time.  We would turn it on and hide it in a cupboard and think we were truly hilarious.  Yep . . . 

Autumn is the best  time of the year with milder temperatures and colourful leaves fluttering down from trees sweater weather 

An excellent read.  I was enthralled from beginning to end.  And its Canadian. The main character, Addy, is easy to emotionally connect with. This is the second book I've read by Lori Lansens.  I will be reading more in the future. Certain novels recall fairy tales. Their heroes are banished, repeatedly challenged, until finally, foes vanquished, they make their triumphant homecoming. Though it opens in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario, trailer park, Lansens's poignant debut is just such a novel. At its heart is Adelaide Shadd, a 70-year-old black woman who takes in five-year-old Sharla Cody when Sharla's "white trash" mother abandons her. As Addy turns Sharla from a malnourished, heedless child into a healthy, thoughtful girl, she recollects her own past. Addy grew up in Rusholme, a fictional cousin to the many Ontario communities founded by fugitive slaves brought north by the Underground Railroad. By 1908, when Addy is born, Rusholme is settled almos...

Describe your life or current situation using exactly six words. In pyjamas; working to do list.

Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage. The band was very successful in Canada, with eleven of their albums being certified Gold in the country, including four being certified Platinum and two achieving multi-platinum certifications. Between 1996 and 2016, Great Big Sea was the sixteenth best-selling Canadian artist in Canada and the sixth best-selling Canadian band in Canada. The band played its first official concert on March 11, 1993, opening for the Irish Descendants at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland. The founding band members included Alan Doyle (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin), Séan McCann (vocals, bodhrán, guitar, tin whistle), Darrell Power (vocals, bass, guitar, bones), and Bob Hallett (vocals, fiddle, a...

 What is something you are proud of achieving or doing?

This sounds like an amazing book, doesn't it?   I usually curl up in bed with a good book at night.  That hasn't worked with this book.  Its too heavy to hold on to.  So today I parked myself in my favourite chair with a cup of tea, a sandwich and this book.  It was still too heavy to manage.  I'm only 40 pages in after 3 days because every time the book slipped I'd end up adjusting it and then rereading entire sections all over again.  I'm finally giving up.  I think it is going to be a great read when I find it in paperback or as an ebook. I bet you've never read a review like this before.

For a history of the Marmora Pit click on this link ~ https://www.marmorahistory.ca/the-mighty-marmoraton-mine . The Marmora Pumped Storage Project From a long inactive, open-pit iron ore mine to an innovative clean energy asset. “The proposed project offers an alternative clean energy storage option to diversify Ontario’s supply resources,” said Scott Nelms, OPG’s Vice President of Corporate Business Development and Strategy. “It would also support growing electrification demands in the province, while strengthening the local economy.” The project is expected to create up to 3,500 jobs (direct and indirect) over the facility’s lifespan and potentially displace between 70,000 and 140,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year. A look at the inactive open-pit mine at Marmora today. The pumped storage solution also offers many of the same long-term advantages as conventional hydro generating stations, including a long lifespan of more than 90 years of expected service, significant...

What songs might you sing at karaoke if no one would judge you?  

What can I say that I didn't say in the last two Lord of the Rings reviews?  The costumes and backgrounds and CGI and scenery and imagination . . . all epic . . . as befits an epic movie like The Lord of the Rings:  The Two Towers. Academy Awards, USA  2003 Won Oscar Best Sound Editing Ethan Van der Ryn Mike Hopkins   Best Visual Effects Jim Rygiel Joe Letteri Randall William Cook Alex Funke   Nominated Oscar Best Picture Barrie M. Osborne Fran Walsh Peter Jackson   Best Art Direction-Set Decoration Grant Major   (art director) Dan Hennah   (set decorator) Alan Lee   (set decorator)   Best Film Editing Michael Horton   Best Sound Christopher Boyes Michael Semanick Michael Hedges Hammond Peek  

What do you need more of in your life?   more /môr/ determiner a greater or additional amount or degree of. "she poured herself more coffee" Similar: additional further added extra increased fresh new other supplementary supplemental spare alternative Opposite: less fewer pronoun a greater or additional amount of something. "tell me more"

 

I think this may be the first book I've read by Robertson Davies.  The Cunning Man tells the story of Dr. Hullah and the remarkably eccentric denizens of St. Aiden's Parish in Toronto.   I liked it.  It wasn't an easy read, full of big words and mysteries and satire.  But I do think it is worth the read.

 What is your favorite thing about yourself?  Why?

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Name a movie you can quote by heart . . . In our family, that movie is Princess Bride . . .

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  Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. CC Ont (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He is credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada's greatest songwriter and his songs have been recorded by some of the world's most renowned musical artists. Lightfoot's biographer Nicholas Jennings said, "His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness." Lightfoot's songs, including "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness"—a number one hit on the U.S. country chart with Marty Robbins's cover in 1965—and "Black Day in July", about the 1967 Detroit riot, brought him wide recognition in the 1960s. Canadian chart success with his own recordings be...

Back in 2012 I received an email from Kobo offering an 85% discount on The Hunger Games with discount code hungergamesdeal. I'd been hearing so much about this book and movie and decided to check it out. I was hoping to use the code to buy the trilogy but Kobo wouldn't let me. I was able to purchase the first book . . . Thank you Dear Customer, Thank you for your recent purchase from Kobo! Please find your purchase confirmation details below. We hope you enjoy your reading experience with us. Sincerely, Kobo Customer Care help@kobobooks.com ORDER SUMMARY Your order was received on March 24, 2012 at 04:33:52 GMT. ITEM DATE PRICE 1. The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins 2012-03-23 $1.12 ITEM $7.49 PROMO CODE $6.37 GST $0.06 PST $0.09 GRAND TOTAL $1.27 PAYMENT METHOD: Grand Total: $1.27 Billed To: Mastercard ... Receipt Number: 10644718 St. Thomas, ON I had a free Kobo reader on my laptop. I also had a free Kindle and a free Adobe reader on my laptop. I was set for anythin...