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School-lunch grade: seed-plus
It’s Back-To-School time, and you know what that means. Surrendering your child to teachers, who everyone agrees 100-percent-no-question do the most noble job in the world, though, sure, there are bad ones, just like there are incompetent doctors or “too … Continue reading
Posted in Family - whadya gonna do?, Never Happened
Tagged back-to-school, fall, family, food, gardening, harvest time, humor, school lunches, teachers, too many zuccinis, vegetable garden
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Consider the lob$ter
Canada has a metric system the way it has universal health care: it’s mostly theoretical and not everybody gets it. Really, we’re metric in air quotes. Like most Canadians, I do my hot weather in Celsius and my frozen pizzas … Continue reading
Posted in Canada and/or Quebec, It Really Did Happen!
Tagged Canada, expensive food, food, humor, kilograms to pounds, lobster, lobster prices, metric system, now I'm broke, rich food
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I left my fudge in church
Dear stewards of Centenary United Church, Last Sunday morning, it’s possible a member of your congregation may have found a small piece of fudge wrapped in a napkin in the back of one of the pews. If that’s the case, … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, It Really Did Happen!
Tagged Christmas, church, dessert, food, fudge, humor, misunderstanding the bible, nonsense, snacks, whimsy
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The Christmas parcel
“Parcel went to the post office before 5 p.m. today,” my mother emailed me from Nova Scotia Monday. That puts me on high alert to get to our post office on Thursday or so. Mom will want to know when … Continue reading
Posted in Family - whadya gonna do?, It Really Did Happen!
Tagged Canada Post, Christmas, Christmas treats, family, far away, food, gifts, goodies, grandmothers, humor, mothers, Nova Scotia, parcels, Scotch Cakes, shortbread
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The meatloaf, and the ruination thereof
And we must ask ourselves, what is the meatloaf? Be it meat or loaf? The French declare it to be pain de viande, which translates as “meat bread.” Does this settle the question or confound, for how can bread – … Continue reading
Drinking Tips for Teens 