I finished reading ‘The Winterhouse' at my brother-in-law's house in Lower Lance Cove, Random Island.
September 7, 2011 - 1 h 00
Despite the testimony of fading photos in the family album, it’s almost impossible for children to imagine their grannies as younger women.
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August 23, 2011 - 8 h 44
My birth was squeezed in between the initial boom of the atomic bomb and Newfoundland’s hitching up with the rest of Canada.
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August 9, 2011 - 8 h 39
Hands up those of you who remember Florence Nightingale, ‘the Lady with the Lamp’.
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July 26, 2011 - 1 h 00
Never before have I seen so many photographs of trawlers - big trawlers, small trawlers, pair trawlers, side trawlers and stern trawlers.
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July 12, 2011 - 1 h 00
Once upon a time, regarding a series of scribbles I've made elsewhere, a fellow remarked to me: "You must've lived my life."
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May 31, 2011 - 1 h 00
What can I say? The instant I opened ‘Find Scruncheon and Touton’ (Tuckamore Books) the first thing that popped into my mind was Grade Two.
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May 16, 2011 - 13 h 12
It doesn’t really matter George Macaulay Trevelyn was a British historian who died early in the 20th century. What does matter for these scribbles is he left us a dandy quotation regarding the benefits of walking that I swiped off the Internet.
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April 26, 2011 - 3 h 30
In one of his songs my hero, Bob Dylan, asks a potential helpmate if she can cook and sew and make flowers grow. His concern isn’t much different from the concern of Captain Edward Wynne, Governor of Ferryland, 1622, in his request – to the...
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