Tag Archive: Canada

Petitions, petitions

Ex UK tabloid Editor Piers Morgan has apparently annoyed quite a few of our cousins south of the 49th parallel (So what’s new?) with a rant about the 2nd Amendment to the US… Read More

TTFN

Well, just over the festering season. This year Mrs S and I are having not a Merry Christmas, but a Merry Detox. No belt loosening Turkey dinner this year but light seafood meals,… Read More

Gravy snobbery

Hereby hangs a tale and a cookery conundrum; how do you make gravy? Traditional rich thick gravy. Not so thick as to stand a spoon up with, but not so runny it’s more… Read More

BC Madness

I’ve been busy of late; too busy to even think of blogging, but the following items reinforce my long held belief that sanity is at a premium throughout humanity. Firstly, the ongoing clashes… Read More

Mad dogs and Englishmen

At work recently, one of my co-workers was discovering the restorative value of what is colloquially known as ‘builders tea’. “You know.” She said to me. “I’m beginning to see what you Brits… Read More

Canadian wine

Sounds like a joke doesn’t it? Wine in the land of the frozen north? Bill, are you taking the piss? Oddly enough no. Mildly irreverent and contemptuous of fools as ever, but no… Read More

Go to work on an – argh!

For those of you who can remember the old UK egg marketing board adverts, (I can, but I was very young back then) the latest twist is that a researcher in Toronto makes… Read More

Frankly my dears

… I couldn’t give a damn. About the bread and circus of the 2012 Olympics. I’m not anti-sport or spectacle, but there are just too many other things to do and see this… Read More

Re: my previous post

The point I was making, or trying to make; is that lobbying organisations pose as charities by giving the barest of lip service to the work of a charitable institution. If you got… Read More

They do things differently there

Picked up on a couple of news items regarding an Albertan retiree who may face charges of assault after trying to get rid of a doorstepping political candidate who wouldn’t go. Apparently the… Read More

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