Fennyland
My granny’s name is Fenny because she comes from Fennyland.
Category: Travel and Adventures
Thanksgiving Gifts from the River
We reach the dock and untie our shoes. Feet in, shirts off, we sink into the water and drive forward hard…
En route..
The Annapolis Valley and on to Cape Breton…
The Heart Will Go On
Everybody’s got to be happy. Everyone should sing
For we know the joy of life, the peace that love can bring.
Staying Home
The pandemic provided me with a gift in staying home…
On the Other Side of the World
Lest the word ‘capital’ evoke pictures of a city, I must report that Moresby had a downtown area of one block and boasted one traffic light.
Can We Save a Wakefield Forest?
Some of us in Wakefield are trying to save a local forest, a forest that’s a ten-minute walk from Wakefield’s Earle House intersection.
Tea with the Queen
The royal family have managed, as they often do, to claim international headlines in recent times, but as I try to absorb the exhausting latest covid updates and marvel at … Continue reading Tea with the Queen
Reflections
People enjoy reading blogs for many reasons, mostly because people are interested in people. And when those people are your acquaintances, neighbours or even friends you have yet to meet, all the better.
CHRISTMAS REMEMBERED
Christmas on the prairies in the 1930s. We had so little. We had so much.
New Orleans and the Réveillon Dinner
Two o’clock in the morning may be an odd time to start a feast consisting of chicken and oyster gumbo, game pies, soups, souffles, lavish desserts, brandy and coffee, but this is how it is done.
Aliens, Stars, and Fences – (A Christmas Tradition)
Arriving at the top, we could see a view of the whole city of Edinburgh below us, and we would stop walking and lie on the grass and look up at the stars.
Wandering Wakefield 