Keeping in touch across the miles

  • Small Things

    Sunshine today, lovely. Spoke to a friend on the phone. Got on really well with Globe and Mail crossword. Another friend mentioned she was doing puzzles so i went hunting and found a very old puzzle in the basement. I haven’t done it in years but when I opened it up, I found it is…

  • A Bit of This and That

    “Travel” said Pooh, “oh what is that?” asked Eeyore. “I am not sure” said Pooh, “but I heard Christopher talking about it once when we were very young”. “I know an new word, said Piglet, “Suitcase” “Hmm it is all very well knowing new words but what does it mean” Said Pooh. “Perhaps a case…

  • A Little Light Music

    I was so excited about today that I went back to bed after breakfast without a book. While the Italian’s are singing beautiful opera from there balconies and the Spanish are playing classical music and being applauded, the Brits are singing drinking songs in the dark while being sworn at by irate neighbours. I wandered…

  • A little madness

    Driving along today, alone, I found that screaming at the top of my lungs all the swear words I could think of was not only good lung exercises but also relieved some of my stress!! It is only a week since I had a few WI ladies come to my house for a meeting and…

  • What is a Senior?

    In a discussion last night with a friend we came to the conclusion that being labeled as a senior at the present time (Covid 19) is not some thing we welcome. Some stores in the town where I live are kindly offering special services for seniors. But am I a senior? I love getting senior…

  • My adventure of the day

    17th March 2020, St Patrick’s Day. We were going to a restaurant tonight to listen to Irish songs and jokes, but Covid 19 has put a stop to that! After a great deal of thought and soul searching I decided to take myself off to Bayshore Shopping Mall in Ottawa. I felt like I was…

  • Our Trip 2012 (12) Rhian and Oscar

    Our Trip 2012 (12) Rhian and Oscar

    On one of our trips to try and find Billy’s bar we ended up in  Molly Malone’s bar on Convent St. in the Silom area of Bangkok. While we were refreshing ourselves with a cool beer we chatted with some  Brits. They were Rhian and  Lance who, together with Rhian’s mum,  were in Bangkok for a few  weeks…

  • Our Trip 2012 (11) Book Club

    Our stay in Bangkok is almost at an end, we have taken two side trips, one to Vietnam and one to Myanmar (Meeanmar) the newish name for Burma, both will be explained in separate blogs. I still have a few adventures to relate. One day I went with a group of ladies in a book…

  • Our Trip 2012 ( 10)

    Our Trip 2012 ( 10)

    Back in Bangkok after our beach trip, we decided to visit the museum again, this time to actually look at some of the exhibits. Although I have spent a lot of time there over the years Dave was always working thus he never really had a good look around. We went around part of the south block…

  • Our Trip 2012 (9)

    We took off for the beach after we had been in Bangkok for 11days. Went to Koh Samet, we have been there a few times in the past. Took a taxi to Ban Phe,  takes about 2 hours, where we got a ferry boat across to the island. Samet is a National Park but honestly you think…

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