HOW TO CATCH, CLEAN AND COOK A WILD SNIPE 1964
Once again my mind wanders back to a time in my youth and a memory of my Dad. I was now in my mid teens, into everything, doing everything, and for sure fancied myself, the real deal. One of my…
MY BROTHER, ENGINEER, LAWYER, FREE SPIRIT, MASTER OF LINGO & MY HERO
In this post I will try to paint a picture of one of the most interesting characters that I ever crossed paths with. I have known him all of my life and although we have not spent a lot of…
RON AND THE GREAT CAR WRECK OF DOUGLASDALE (and other things in her teens)
I will skip ahead a bit, in the time, after our arrival back in Canada, to a point where Ron had now reached about 17 years old. She was deep into her second year of High School at Lord Beaverbrook…
AN ATHLETE IS BORN – ANGE KILLS IT AT SOCCER (Ange top row far right)
Soon after arriving back in Calgary, Deysi had the girls enrolled in a few, outside school, activities. For Ange they included music (both piano and clarinet), swimming, skiing and soccer. Ron, on the other hand, was now in her middle…
THE TIME I SHOT MY BROTHER TO MAKE HIM PAY ATTENTION
My story for today is from my early years, say in the early ’60’s. It is about something that still makes me shudder as I think about it and makes me understand, just how close I was to being seriously…
FAMOUS LAST WORDS – DISNEYLAND PARIS SUMMER 2001
I have just had a request from a faithful reader named Ange, for more tales and memories of our multiple visits to Disneyland over the years. This was and still is her “happy place”. If she could, she would gladly…
REPOST OF AN EARLIER STORY – DANCING THE PERUVIAN TWO STEP
EDITOR’S NOTE: I am reposting this article because it had unusually high traffic, many of whom appeared to be robots which my program identified and dealt with. However for those that missed this post, here it is again. AUTHOR I…
KAPOWWW! THE SOUND OF BUSTED SPARE RIBS – PERU 1978
The other day when I spoke of my damaged arm, compliments of my attempt to revive a skating career, I was reminded by Ange, in a comment, that this was not the only time I had worked in a less…
OK IT’S DONE WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL – CHRISTMAS 2020
OK, the tree is up and decorated. I do not understand what the big deal was? After hacking this behemoth out of the forest; I then unloaded, unpacked and applied decoration to this monster, with the minimum of issues. Even…
ROLLER BLADES STRAPPED ON – SKATING WITH THE STARS 1993
This next short story, is dedicated to my brother in law Cleeeef. He reminded me about this incident, very early in my blogging career. At that time I was writing posts in a more or less chronological order, and the…
