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Canada Day is July 1. As a friend of mine put it this morning, I am proudly Canadian, by choice rather than birth. What a great country! Today, we’ll be spending time at the Street Festival, then doing some lawn bowling, and may end the day watching the fireworks at Canada Place. Some of our family [...] Happy Victoria Day! Holidays provide us with a change from the regular pace of life. Best of health, naturally, According to our Organic Kitchen Garden calender by Ann Lovejoy with photographs by Robin Bachtler Cushman, Spring Equinox is on March 20 this year. When I was growing up, Spring Equinox, that time when the centre of the sun crosses the equator, fell on March 21. But no longer. And now, Spring Equinox varies its date [...] This week is spring break, which means there are no CSNN classes and Science World will have long line-ups of families with children waiting to get in. My grandchildren and I love going to Science World and, having a season’s pass, we can bypass theline-up. That way we avoid the frustration that standing in line can [...] Saint David is the Patron Saint of Wales and his life is celebrated by the Welsh on March 1 in the wearing of a leek or a daffodil. Rhys James Jones writes about St. David, emphasizing that he lived for more than 100 years and died in 589, A.D. His diet – get this – was [...] The fact that WordPress can predate and backdate posts has pros and cons. It’s great, for instance, when you go away on holiday, because you can schedule posts to appear on your blog while you’re gone. You can also backdate a post, so that it appears on the day that it happened, like the day a [...] Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday, and Mardi Gras are all the same day: the last Tuesday before Ash Wednesday when Lent begins. This is the day we’re allowed to have a feast (sweet and savoury pancakes), a wild party (Mardi Gras), and indulge ourselves. Then, the next day, everything changes. Lent is the holiday that signifies the [...] If you’re a church goer, and a church goer where communion is regularly celebrated, do you intinct or do you imbibe? Aren’t those interesting words? I’ve been intincting, i.e. I’ve been dipping my wafer into the wine at communion, rather than sipping from the communal chalice. It was a choice based on what I thought I [...] Have you noticed when you are on holiday or retire or reach any other stage when the timed commitments (like meetings and appointments and deadlines) fall away, that we stay up later and get up later and altogether defy the 24-hour clock? It’s been shown through experimentation time and again that our diurnal clocks lengthen when [...] I always want to know when to send cards to be in time for Christmas and I often seem to find out the dates too late! This year I’m ready: here’s a link to Canada Post’s send-by dates. All the send-by dates start in December, with different dates depending on whether you’re sending a letter or a [...] |
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